@rowey The video should be no more than 3 to 8 MB. We will strip the audio track to save size.
The 20 second C&C video shows the kind of content we want. Action shots transitioning into other action shots. A typical trailer or existing video likely will not be suitable.
@RandomWheelchair Good point - we will use a static image for mobile devices.
Also I wasn't aware the current image was 2MB. We can optimise that too.
@Brutus5000 If you're worried about server bandwidth then it's yet another reason to use Cloudflare...
@Eternal MP4 is fine for streaming content like this. If we included webp we would need to provide an mp4 failback anyway.
@Katharsas Hosting a video of this size ourselves doesn't really suck.
- It will be cached by browsers.
- It is streamed not downloaded.
YouTube is out of the question for a background video.
You are also an edge case that blocks the existing background image. We cannot design a webpage for someone using an adblocker to block existing images.
What we can do is keep this file super small and make it so that it falls back to an image for mobile phone users. We can optimize the current fallback image somewhat too.