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vStream is a "video sharing" platform under development, we'll see how far I'm willing to take it, since it will most likely require a bit of bandwidth and space. But then again, that's fine - for now.
This will be one of the few services with a slighly more "modern" take, as it takes advantage of HTML 4.013.2, CSS and JavaScript - and Flash! As for the latter, I haven't decided on a player just yet, but as far as I have tested this early in development, an early version of JW Player seems to fit the bill, perhaps even a version prior to that (FLV Player). There may be some need to tweak the source a bit and creating a new SWF for the video player, but all in due time.
Flash!?
Yes, "ancient techology" from the late 90s and early 00s should have no problems with this, I believe Flash 6 should be capable enough to deal with the videos. And a modern solution would be Ruffle, which seems to handle the video player and contents just fine as far as modern tests go.
Tech & Stuff
There's really nothing exciting or magic behind the technology, FFmpeg to re-encode uploaded content with the Sorenson Spark codec with settings that should be compliant with media of the time, I'm sure this can be tweaked a bit for compatibility and such - which is why I have ensured that there is enough video from the early 00s for examination, to take a closer look at bit rates etc.
As for the website itself, which is evolving / devolving during development - mainly to find a fair middleground to stand on. Though it currently supports anonymous uploading, user accounts (which binds uploaded content to the user), categories, video tags, descriptions, thumbnails (at least when browsing), standard (240p) and high quality (360p) video, automatic processing of uploaded video and more.
Flash is the solution I've chosen, there will be no quicktime / real / windows media support. There are other sites out there for that, or other solutions.
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