RE: You Tube

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Original poster: "Breneman, Chris" <brenemanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not an expert on YouTube in particular, but I do have some 
experience with computer science and engineering in general.  From 
what I can see, on YouTube, users can upload videos in a variety of 
formats.  These videos are added into a queue on one of the YouTube 
servers (I'd rather guess they have many to share the large load they 
have).  A program running on these servers goes through the queue and 
coverts these videos into a format which can be played using a Flash 
applet.  I'm not sure what exactly this format is, but I do know that 
it is indexed and it can be streamed.  It may even be embedded in the 
flash.  The computers playing videos don't need any special player - 
just flash.  I've used YouTube a bit and it gives individual users 
the chance to remove videos that they've previously uploaded, which 
might matter to some people.  There are also the typical mechanisms 
of adding comments and ratings.
You may also want to look at Google video - it's very similar to 
YouTube but I find that it has slightly faster upload rates and 
appears to do real-time conversion as its uploaded instead of putting 
it into a queue.

Chris



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Sent: Wed 1/3/2007 10:59 PM
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Subject: You Tube

Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Everyone,

I remember a time when even a web page with coils was "slim pickins".
Nowadays, web pages of coilers are everywhere! Video however has
always been a big file to download in the past in most cases. With
You Tube, it seems a much better way to share video's of our coils
and whatever.

So, anyone care to shed some lightning on how You Tube works? Video
format! etc..

Take care,
Bart