[HSF] Video

[Michael Firstenberg]

What happened to the YouTube option?  This sounds like the best - afterall,
that is why Google did buy them for billions.  We do not need to invent the
wheel.

-michael


On 9/4/07, ebender001 at charter.net <ebender001 at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Mark:
> Thanks for the response.  As a first step, perhaps allowing small
> quicktime files.  I am mostly interested in showing echo cine loops.  We can
> compress the hell out of them with the resultant product still being
> readable.
>
> Ed Bender, MD
>
>
> ---- Mark Levinson <mmlevinson at hsforum.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Edward Bender wrote:
> >
> > > This is for Jon.  Maybe we can revisit the issue of video for the
> > > forum.  Perhaps limited storage of proscribed size/format.  Failing
> > > that, how about a forum sponsored You Tube private group.  I think
> > > we all want it.
> > >
> > Ed:
> >
> > I could not agree more.    The issue is file size...upload time....
> > and compression
> >
> > Many home edited digital movie files are huge....200 megs or more.
> > If you compress them before uploading, the compression may
> > not be ideal for re-broadcast on the Web.       When we process
> > movies at the HSF, our production staff adjust the frame rate, bit rate,
> > and compression CODEC to get best preformance for web broadcast.
> >
> > You Tube solves this by converting all uploads to Flash media, and
> > there is open source code that can do this conversion.
> > Still, very large source files take a very long time to upload.
> > Many of the You Tube videos were taken with pocket (point and shoot)
> > video cameras taking MPEG2 at 15 frames / second at 320 x 140
> > resolution, and which are manageable in short sequences for file upload.
> > However, my Luxtex OR camera takes at 640 x 480 at 30 fps, which is
> > more than 8 times the amount of data per second.
> >
> > I have wanted for some time to be able to have any Forum member
> > upload surgical videos to our site automatically.     I can
> > only say that it is a technical challenge to get the file uploaded to
> > the server, convert it to a quality suitable for web broadcast, and then
> > post it.
> >
> > We could set up a You Tube section, but I have not found it easy to
> > get back in to see You Tube videos which people have
> > notified me about.   I posted a video there of my multiple
> > metastatice resection technique...but I can't find it!.     There is
> > a great deal of spam-like chatter on You-Tube as well.     So, its do-
> > able, but messy IMHO.
> >
> > I will ask again amoungst my staff if this can be done via the
> > HSF.....it is definately a great suggestion..
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Mark M. Levinson, MD
> > Founder, Editor-in-Chief,
> > The Heart Surgery Forum
> > WWW: <http://www.hsforum.com>
> > Email: <mmLevinson at hsforum.com>
> >
> >
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