i’m thinking of using panda’s api instead of ffmpeg to save cpuhttp://www.pandastream.com/
panda is free if you want to upload vids >=10mbhttp://www.pandastream.com/pricing_and_s…
my question is simple
how long should the video be in theory to have a max size of 10mb?
how much does the size change from lets say .mp4 to flv and so on?
i don’t need exact numbers , just rough assumptions so that i know if i should use panda or not – i’m not gonna pay 99$ lol, for 99$ i buy 2 dedicated servers and install ffmpeg on them and make one for conversations and storage and the other to serve the site lol!!


Only one info here: some samples I have.
.mov:
30 seconds “.mov” (used for web) is 11 Mb…
Image size similar to YouTube.
.avi:
50 mins, 400×300, 664Mb
.avi (DVD)
50 mins, full screen TV (800×600), 170 Mb…
.mpg
20 sec, Youtube size, 3.5Mb
This says it is totally unreliable! It depends on many factors, but principally on image size, ratio, quality and compression factor. There is no “universal formula”…
If you can get dedicated servers for the price you say, go for it! The only thing you need is storage, and a dedicated server has A LOT of it! (But watch the bandwidth…)