Mouthshut encourages us to provide
video review. A review consists of at least three or even more than
three parts. The introduction, the Description of item reviewd and
the Pros and cons. If it is believed to be a good review then it
should also include the conclution. In case of a video review, all
these are necessarily be shown by means of video clippings. But to do
this mouthshut allocates us a maximum space of 20 MB or 6 mintues. I
think the service provider should review on the file size and the
time limit too. 20 MB for a video review encoded in avi video format
is just a few seconds video. To me, it should be a minimum of 25
mins. in length(more than youtubes time restriction of 10mins.) and
the file size should be minimum 2 GB for a quality video review.
It
is believed that a documentary film should be limited to 25 mins. of
time. Longer than that may affect the viewers patience. So, the time
limit should be such that one can make even a documentary and throw
it before the mouthshut critics. One may improve himself in such way.
In case of file size, it must be at least 2GB. Recent days
camcorders, which are mainly divided into three categories can store
videos mainly in avi and mpg format. Firstly the Hard Disc cams,
which stores video in the cameras own memory in .avi format, though
it can encode videos in mpg and other formats too. Secondly the DV
cams, which stores video in a tape in avi format. The third one is
DVD cams which stores the encoded video in a mini DVD in mpg format.
An hour of an avi movie takes 12 to 18 GB space. If you consider for
a quality review then it is the best because it does not uses any
compression.The second popular format is mpg which is compressed
video, but it can produce a good quality video too. An hour of such
video can take 5.5 GB to 7.5 GB space. In case of Dolby Digital,
Surround quality audio, it may increase the limit a bit too. Using
some available free and open source softwares like avidemux etc. one
can easily restrict the file size to 2GB for a DVD quality video. But
trying to compress it more should spoil the quality. Mouthshuts
encouragement for video review is a very good option today as now
faster internet service is also available in India. Uploading a 2GB
video is not at all a problem today. So there is enough
infrastructure available for uploading a Video Review. But everybody
must have to stop thinking as there is not enough space available
with mouthshut for uploading such a review.Even the idea should be
reconsidered in such a way that, one should be able to upload video
files even there is some disconnections from users end during
uploading. The file should be uploaded from the next chunk of data
from where it was stopped.
There might be space problem at the
receiving server end for uploading such video. In that case mouthshut
may consider for uploading the video to youtube like sites and embed
the link in particular topic. But this must be considered for a
temporary solution. Mouthshut itself come forward to solve the
problem.Otherwise not the video review, only some bollywood dance
files would take the place. And it will be the end of a nice idea.