N93 Review Part 2 - Video is awesome but files are huge and Brightcove can't handle them
UPDATE:It looks like blip.tv took the FLV that the Brightcove Publishpod encoded out of my MP4 (if the video below doesn't work, go to my blip.tv post to play it!):
The first video I did with my N93 was a 5 minute one of the SkyTrain (of course!). It's an awesome video but its 100MB (since I did it at 640x480 30fps MPEG4). I tried to upload it to Brightcove (since I know it won't work on blip.tv, my fav service; file is too big) but it didn't work. The Brightcove Mac OS X uploader, Brightcove Publishpod, successfully encoded the MP4 to flash video aka FLV but the sites says it's processing (and it's been saying that for 24 hours!).
I guess I'll try Google Video. I did search the Brightcove knowledge base and FAQs but found no documentation for video file upload limits or that MPEG4 (and yes I know there are many variants of MPEG4 and perhaps Nokia's is not supported) was not supported. Ah well early days. Brightcove sounds great (Robin Good's Brightcove review makes it sound wonderful) but I couldn't get it to work.
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Brightcove Encoding and Uploading Issues
Thanks for covering the launch and trying the service! We have been experiencing some intermittent upload issues that we expect to have resolved in the next 48 hours. We’ve had an amazing response to our launch offering, so please bear with us.
Regarding the formats accepted for encoding, the Publishpod is designed to encode professional production formats and supports QuickTime, AVI (on Windows), and MPEG variants, however now all codecs and variants are supported. We’ve tested extensively with large files that would normally be exported from an editing system such as Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro in standard and high definition.
We’re also offering the ability for publishers to accept video submissions in multiple formats from viewers. As part of this Consumer Generate Media initiative we will handle all of the encoding on the server-side and plan to support more common consumer formats, such as AVIs and MPEG-4 files from digital cameras. Of course publishers will have access to this technology themselves for encoding short clips on our servers. We plan to make this available to all publishers in the near future.
Regards,
-Sean
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so not all MPEG4 variants are supported yet?
Thanks for the update Sean!
looking forward to Brightcove accepting the N93's MPEG4 variant.
...Roland
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