The neat thing is that incoming bandwidth to AWS is free, so people upload 100's of megabytes and we only get billed for the 8MB we send back. (CPU time/cost to transcode is negligible).
Somewhat related: This semester we got a Moodle in the university. Sometimes the students write the homework in paper and upload a photo to the site. But the maximum files size is 1Mb, that is like the average size of a photo of a paper, so half of the time they have a problem. So if you want to diversify later, you can try with photos. (Good luck getting students to pay for this, but it may be a losing lead.)
Some questions after writing my unrelated comment: [Instant Edit: I tried it now.]
Can I choose a smaller size? [I only can choose bigger sizes. Can I choose smaller sizes?]
Do you add a watermark? [No]
Do you preserve sound? [Yes :), and I can mute it too :).]
More feature requests after trying it:
Can I change the resolution of the video?
It would be nice to see the options before I click upload file.
After I download the video it is not longer available (as promised). Perhaps it would be nice to add some javascript trick to change the link from "Download xyz.mp4" to "You have already downloaded the video. Click here to upload a new one."
The name of the video is uninteligible. Perhaps it should be something like "8mb.uploaded_file_name.mp4".
Thank you for taking the time to write all this great feedback.
I am very appreciative.
Photos: Yes I actually recently added support for photos. It just resizes them to 1080p resolution. So not very flexible but all software must start somewhere. Give it a shot? They tend to be around 0.1MB.
I bought the domain 8mb.app .. maybe should switch names since it does more then video?
What kind of watermark do you want to add? text? graphic?
What video resolution do you want? Right now it reduces video to 720p, or keeps it the same if already smaller.
> It would be nice to see the options before I click upload file.
What do you mean?
> Perhaps it would be nice to add some javascript trick to change the link from "Download xyz.mp4" to "You have already downloaded the video. Click here to upload a new one."
Yes! Good idea! Will do.
> Perhaps it should be something like "8mb.uploaded_file_name.mp4".
That would make sense. I will consider it.
If you have more feedback, I'm listening because those were great points.
[+] [-] dustball|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bartvk|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] gus_massa|5 years ago|reply
Some questions after writing my unrelated comment: [Instant Edit: I tried it now.]
Can I choose a smaller size? [I only can choose bigger sizes. Can I choose smaller sizes?]
Do you add a watermark? [No]
Do you preserve sound? [Yes :), and I can mute it too :).]
More feature requests after trying it:
Can I change the resolution of the video?
It would be nice to see the options before I click upload file.
After I download the video it is not longer available (as promised). Perhaps it would be nice to add some javascript trick to change the link from "Download xyz.mp4" to "You have already downloaded the video. Click here to upload a new one."
The name of the video is uninteligible. Perhaps it should be something like "8mb.uploaded_file_name.mp4".
[+] [-] dustball|5 years ago|reply
I am very appreciative.
Photos: Yes I actually recently added support for photos. It just resizes them to 1080p resolution. So not very flexible but all software must start somewhere. Give it a shot? They tend to be around 0.1MB.
I bought the domain 8mb.app .. maybe should switch names since it does more then video?
What kind of watermark do you want to add? text? graphic?
What video resolution do you want? Right now it reduces video to 720p, or keeps it the same if already smaller.
> It would be nice to see the options before I click upload file.
What do you mean?
> Perhaps it would be nice to add some javascript trick to change the link from "Download xyz.mp4" to "You have already downloaded the video. Click here to upload a new one."
Yes! Good idea! Will do.
> Perhaps it should be something like "8mb.uploaded_file_name.mp4".
That would make sense. I will consider it.
If you have more feedback, I'm listening because those were great points.
[+] [-] dustball|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ellsthrow|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dustball|5 years ago|reply