Hi. I’m dealing with a 150+ MB mp3 file of a seminar that is over 2:30 hours long. My client wants me to post this on the website so people can download it, but she does not want me to divide it up into smaller chunks. She doesn’t want to loose the integrity of the seminar as a whole.
I was thinking a compromise might be if (for those who would listen to this streaming, not download)… Is if I could post the link to the mp3 with some kind of timestamp so the actual mp3 file would continue to be a single file, but they wouldn’t have to search to find the place they want to start.
This might make more sense if you look at my rough beginning here:
Where it has the datestamp, I’d love for that to link to the appropriate place in the mp3 file. Is there any way to do that without dividing the file itself?
You might be able to do this with a Flash controller of some sort.
I’m not the one to do this for you, but there might be someone else
on the list who could. Flash has some pretty deep controls for this
sort of thing.
Walter
On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Doty wrote:
Hi. I’m dealing with a 150+ MB mp3 file of a seminar that is over
2:30 hours long. My client wants me to post this on the website so
people can download it, but she does not want me to divide it up
into smaller chunks. She doesn’t want to loose the integrity of the
seminar as a whole.
Sometime around 10/7/08 (at 15:23 -0400) Doty said:
Hi. I’m dealing with a 150+ MB mp3 file of a seminar that is over
2:30 hours long.
That’s encoded at 128kbps then, right? I suggest first that you try
re-encoding it at 64kbps. That’ll take it down to approximately 75MB
for 2.5 hours of audio.
Now, the MP3 spec doesn’t itself - I think - allow for chapters or
similar tricks. But QuickTime movies do, and you can open your MP3
file in QuickTime Player and produce a .mov file that contains it -
and then add chapters to that, by importing timecodes set up in a
text file.
Visitors will have to have QuickTime installed, but that is precisely
100% of all Mac users - and every PC user who owns an iPod or an
iPhone or has even just tried out the free iTunes. And for those PC
users still without it, it is a free download from Apple.
If this sounds interesting I’ll try to recall how it is done. I know
more or less, but it has been quite a while since I last did that and
the details escape me.
That’s a good tip to look at the compression. I think I would have not thought of that. I don’t think I have the time to do the QuickTime deal due to the fact that I’m doing this website for free for a friend, but it is great to know this possibility is out there. Thanks!