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I code primarily in PHP and Perl. I have a client who is insisting on seeking video submissions (any encoding) from the public via one of their pages rather than letting YouTube do its job.
Server in question is a virtual machine and I can adjust ini settings for max post, max upload size etc as needed.
My initial thought is to use a Flash based uploader with PHP on the back end but I wondered if someone might have useful advice and experience on the subject?
Doing large file transfers of HTTP is not usually fun — but sometimes it’s necessary.
For large files, you’ll definitely want to provide some kind of progress gauge for end-users.
There are flash-based tools that do this (swfUpload comes to mind).
If you want to avoid flash and do it with pretty html/javascript/css, you can leverage PHP’s APC extension, which for some reason provides support for getting upload status from the server, as explained here