Posted by P.C. Ford on 07/03/06 17:21

I have done a instructional video for a piece of medical equipment. I
have delivered it in DVD format; it has a menu which has links to
various chapters.

After delivering the master, the company wondered if the video could
be put in streaming format. The reason for this is that many of their
computers are older and do not have DVD players. No problem encoding
the video. It will play from a cd on the machine, not from a server.

However, I don't know how to create a useable menu in a streaming
format. From a Google search I believe this is possible. I believe if
I used Flash video, Flash could be used to create a menu.

As things are going right now. I think I will build a html page and
then link to entire video. The video will be chopped up in "chapters"
and then linked via html. Thus, there will be in effect two copies of
the video, the entire video and the chapters of the video. Half an
hour of 640x480 at 15 frames/second seems to take about 300 meg.

I am vaguely aware that it is possible to do the chapters with some
kind of WMV scripting. Also, Flash is a possibility for a menu.

Please let me know if you have further info. Anyway, I want to see the
backside of this project. If you can point me to useful info that
would be great....or, better yet, do this for me (for a price of
course) I would be every so grateful.

Hope someone sees this on a holiday weekend. I'll post again if I
don't get any answers.

You can email directly if you email using pcford as the user and
criterionweb.com as the domain.

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