Video encoding for web?

[h8sh8]

Can someone please help me out?

I have a 30min video from a DVD (non-commercial) and want to put it on a website. I know how to convert it and I'm able to do most formats (quicktime, avi, mpeg, wmv) - I don't want to use real player, and would prefer the video non-streaming unless I can have it on my webhost, and also want it to be able to be embedded in the page.

Would help heaps if anyone has any suggestions on what is best for mainly compatibilty (browser and cross-platform) and small filesize, but also quality and pixel dimension size - there's so many codecs and formats and different combinations, it's hard to know where to start. The video is an interview with only a little movement. I'm assuming for 30 minutes it would need to be pretty low quality. I'd also like to do two videos - one for broadband, another for dial-up.

Any info at all would be a great help - websites, tutorials, or any other info. Having trouble finding out much on this.
Thanks - h8sh8

[thecoalman]

WMV would be the best format, it's the most compatible even for people without Windows.

Use windows media encoder, there's many presets available for specific bandwidth's. You can adjust as you need them. Getting decent audio and video for 56k is impossible unless you make it the size of a postage stamp with very low quality audio.

For embedding it in HTML just do a google search, there's many variables that can be set such what's avaialable on the player. I'd provide an additional link directly to the file if your going to embed it.

[h8sh8]

cheers coalman,
much appreciated thanks mate.