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Ok. I'm downloading right now. Thanks!

what's the average turn around time during the processing cycle?

If everything goes well with the encoding on our side, depending on the video size, you should see it within 5 minutes after downloading, and in most cases, much sooner. If there's a problem, at this point, the video could sit in the pending state without being updated. I'm working on being more intelligent in how the state of the video is reported during the encoding cycle.

Of course, if you encode the video into flv yourself, the video will be posted immediately following the upload.

Ok, I need to change my last statement, the flv file will not be posted immediately, but will run through a tool to index it so the progress bar on our player will work correctly. This should happen within 1 minute.

Without digging through the READMEs of each product, I'd like to know, which ones convert from .mov files? That's what my pocketable cam records in...

thanks buddy

Unfortunately, there are a ton of video and audio codec combinations, and not all the tools support all formats. One of the reasons for converting a video to flv prior to upload is to avoid having Buzznet not recognize the format because of the limitations of our encoders. WMV9 is the video codec, but the audio may vary, so it's hard to say why your video doesn't encode correctly. I've noticed problems with WMV9 and WMV7, but it could be a problem with the audio codec as well. Do you know the audio codec of your videos?

I've noticed historically in our database that we success with wmv1, wmv2, and wmv3, but nothing higher at this point, and the audio is always wmav2.

I'll keep looking into how we can encode WMV with more success, in the meantime if you find something that encodes correctly, please let me know.

You may want to try to encode to an intermediate format like avi, then to flv from Riva, or try to upload to Buzznet.

All my .flv outputs are grainy and pixelated, despite high settings (in fact changing the settings in either Digitalgroover or Riva seems to do nothing). How do I get my .flv files to look as smooth as the videos on buzznet?

I have successfully uploaded (apparently) my first video - in a mp4 file, but it's not appearing on my Buzznet page. In fact, here is no indication at all that I have video available. Only "Photos", "Profile", "My Friends" etc. What could the problem be?

so how sooon till i can post videos from my phone?

Excellent to see this service added :) Do you think that being able to post video via email will be available as it is with images? This would be VERY handy - being able to Vblog direct from my mobile phone would be excellent and used/viewed a lot!

lol just noticed the comment above mine!

Yes, we're working on sending from the phone in a future release. I'll keep everyone updated.

I downloaded the Riva encoder and it seems to work quite well for convertng avi (audio codec: unknown. video codec: lead mcmp/mjpeg) (aiptek dv cam). I had tried to upload both avi and mpg with no success. But uploading the flv file worked.

Audio uploads seem hit and miss. With same exact bitrate/Khz files sometimes it accepts them, sometimes it doesn't.