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The client shot a video that is close to 1 GB that they want streamed on their home page just like
[https://www.lmu.edu/])These folks appear to be self-hosting this, which I’m told is not recommended. I have no experience with video – I don’t know what to suggest. Typically I tell clients to host at YouTube or Vimeo and end embed… but that requires them to be okay with ads at the end correct?
Any help welcome.
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You’ll want to compress the hell out of it and make versions for desktop / mobile.
There are compression tools like out there but I haven’t used them. I haven’t used a background video in years. But you can definitely self host the video.. It will just eat bandwidth and avoid loading a 3rd party player
Well, lmu’s video is only 23mb (which is still significantly larger than what is ideal for the homepage, but still much better than 1gb). Your first task is going to be reducing file size from 1gb, as even at 10mb/s you’re still looking at a minute and a half or so load time for the video alone….
Don’t know why self-hosting a media file would inherently be an issue. I would be far more concerned about the ads, cookies, etc in services like YouTube, as you noted, than I would about self hosting the file. For implementation it’s just a video tag with a source tag in a div, pretty straightforward. Depending on your theme set up you will probably need to create a child theme if you haven’t already but, again, not too tricky.
Have fun!
Try to convince the client to edit it shorter as much as possible and then compress it as much as you can. Aim for under 10mb.