Hello everyone, I manage the Toys for Tots TotsTV.org Web site (at for the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots foundation (the national children's charity). At we feature a number of high quality family-friendly videos. All of the content on TotsTV.org is in Flash format, including the games and music, but the videos are a real problem for us and I wonder if anyone has advice on how best to solve the issue?
The problem is that although the video quality (size and resolution) is good, the videos are still very large (from 25MB to 35MB each!) and as a result most people at home can't view them. Our site stats show that thousands of people are abruptly leaving TotsTV.org once they try to view the videos, so the current solution is actually driving people away from this non-profit children's charity site!
Clearly we need to re-encode the videos (originals are in AVI format) using a better Flash compression tool. We've been using "Swish Video 2" from SwishZone, and we like the image quality but the file sizes are just too large. Are there better tools that we should use instead?
For TotsTV we need to keep the dimensions and visual quality of the videos the same as we have now (high quality overall), but we really (REALLY!) need to reduce the file sizes to something more reasonable that a home user can download in timely fashion.
Any advice, pointers or direction you could give me would be a great help to me personally and the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots foundation. Thank you very much for your help!
Barbara Mikolajczak
Manager, TotsTV.org
U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation
The problem is that although the video quality (size and resolution) is good, the videos are still very large (from 25MB to 35MB each!) and as a result most people at home can't view them. Our site stats show that thousands of people are abruptly leaving TotsTV.org once they try to view the videos, so the current solution is actually driving people away from this non-profit children's charity site!
Clearly we need to re-encode the videos (originals are in AVI format) using a better Flash compression tool. We've been using "Swish Video 2" from SwishZone, and we like the image quality but the file sizes are just too large. Are there better tools that we should use instead?
For TotsTV we need to keep the dimensions and visual quality of the videos the same as we have now (high quality overall), but we really (REALLY!) need to reduce the file sizes to something more reasonable that a home user can download in timely fashion.
Any advice, pointers or direction you could give me would be a great help to me personally and the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots foundation. Thank you very much for your help!
Barbara Mikolajczak
Manager, TotsTV.org
U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation