Dendy Asrari

Recently I’m courious about how exactly Youtube.com works. Youtube is like a video version of “Flickr”, their tag line is ‘Broadcast yourself’. You can upload and share your video for free.

The interesting part is youtube uses Flash video (FLV) to delivery a video in their service, the reason maybe to reduce file size and also allows most platforms and browsers to easily view the content. You can upload almost any video file (mov, mpeg, wmv, asf, avi ) to their server, and they automatically convert it into FLV, yeah… I did a little research on this one and surfing around and found that they use Server Side Encoding Software called On2 Flix Engine SDK.

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