Video upload size recommendations?

[tommydamic68]

Has anyone enabled video upload on their forums? If so what size have you allowed? I'm going to turn video upload on for specific usergroups and don't want to eat up my 250GB on Digital Ocean Spaces.

 

[Ozzy47]

If you are concerned about disk space usage then obviously you won’t be allowing 2GB+ file uploads. You’d have to limit it to what seems reasonable based on your server and available storage space.

 

[tommydamic68]

If you are concerned about disk space usage then obviously you won’t be allowing 2GB+ file uploads. You’d have to limit it to what seems reasonable based on your server and available storage space.

Yes, of course but i'm trying to find a happy medium. My forum is about cats, so I'm guessing most videos are going be short and simple like Instagram videos. So maybe 1 minute videos perhaps.

 

[Ozzy47]

Generally a video taken in a phone is roughly 1GB per minute as far as I can tell, so that is a good place to gauge size from.

 

[RobinHood]

That's very high. In reality the size will vary greatly depending on the recording settings.

Resolution: 720p, 1080p, 4k, (8k?!)
Frame Rate: 24, 30, 60, 120 (slow mo), 240 (slow mo)

Here are some sample iPhone video sizes:

 

[tommydamic68]

Does anyone know where the setting is on the server that XenForo has required here in the ACP? My host have increased the max_upload_size on the server but it still
won’t let me change it in the ACP over 20000KB

 

[RobinHood]

'm going to turn video upload on for specific usergroups and don't want to eat up my 250GB on Digital Ocean Spaces.

Just been looking at these, seems pretty good value. $5 a month, then only 2 cents per additional GB.

So two 4k 60fps one minute vids each would only cost an extra 1p each per month to host. The bandwidth could get you I suppose though if you have a really huge amount of viewers.

1 cent per GB of bandwidth once you hit your 1TB limit, so 100 people watching a 400MB vid would cost 40 cents (after you hit your limit), if an upload goes viral and gets 10k view, it'll be $40, 100k views will be $400

 

[RobinHood]

Does anyone know where the setting is on the server that XenForo has required here in the ACP? My host have increased the max_upload_size on the server but it still
won’t let me change it in the ACP over 20000KB

You might also need to edit post_max_size

 

[tommydamic68]

Just been looking at these, seems pretty good value. $5 a month, then only 2 cents per additional GB.

So two 4k 60fps one minute vids each would only cost an extra 1p each per month to host. The bandwidth could get you I suppose though if you have a really huge amount of viewers.

1 cent per GB of bandwidth once you hit your 1TB limit, so 100 people watching a 400MB vid would cost 40 cents (after you hit your limit), if an upload goes viral and gets 10k view, it'll be $40, 100k views will be $400

Just been looking at these, seems pretty good value. $5 a month, then only 2 cents per additional GB.

So two 4k 60fps one minute vids each would only cost an extra 1p each per month to host. The bandwidth could get you I suppose though if you have a really huge amount of viewers.

1 cent per GB of bandwidth once you hit your 1TB limit, so 100 people watching a 400MB vid would cost 40 cents (after you hit your limit), if an upload goes viral and gets 10k view, it'll be $40, 100k views will be $400

That wouldn’t happen on my small forum.

 

[RobinHood]

Fair play, I was mainly just typing it out loud for my own reference and anyone else reading this thread who might be interested.

 

[Yodrak]

Does anyone know where the setting is on the server that XenForo has required here in the ACP? My host have increased the max_upload_size on the server but it still
won’t let me change it in the ACP over 20000KB

You need to set
upload_max_filesize =??? M
and
post_max_size =??? M

As you are using Apache you can try to use a user.ini file in root with the settings above. After you create this file you need to restart your Webserver.

 

[RobinHood]

That wouldn’t happen on my small forum.

Never underestimate the power of cat videos to viral on the internet.

 

[tommydamic68]

Never underestimate the power of cat videos to viral on the internet.

I’ll keep that in mind whilst posting cat videos. I’ve run the largest Sphynx Cat account on Instagram since 2012, haven’t had one go viral yet, guess it’s like the lottery, 1 in a billion.

 

[RobinHood]

Oh, I forgot it's Sphynx cats, never mind.

 

[tommydamic68]

However I did have this one that had over 75,000 views and almost 20,000 likes...not bad for Sphynx cats.

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[RobinHood]

Awww, that wrinkly little bugger is actually kind of cute!

75k view is good!

 

[webbouk]

What would be useful is if someone could figure out a way of compressing the uploaded videos in order to reduce their file size, either on upload or server-side.

 

[RobinHood]

The media gallery does have a capability of transcoding video server side once uploaded, but it's not exposed to the thread upload functionality currently. Someone might be able to make an add on to utilise the already built in feature to do that.

I'm not sure about compressing at the point of upload within a browser. The compression of the video client side on a mobile phone before upload is one of the biggest potential features of a native mobile phone app IMO.

 

[tommydamic68]

You need to set
upload_max_filesize =??? M
and
post_max_size =??? M

As you are using Apache you can try to use a user.ini file in root with the settings above. After you create this file you need to restart your Webserver.

My host has done both and still no change in my ACP- still says 20,480 is the max - what gives here?

 

[Yodrak]

My host has done both and still no change in my ACP- still says 20,480 is the max - what gives here?

Administrator login | Sphynxlair

Look There for upload_max_size and post_max_size. If you See 20M then its possible your host did Not restart your Webserver and php.