I am designing a small, narrowly focused social web site and I need my members to have the ability to upload their own video clips. Since there are so many different video formats, I would like to have an automated system that converts all of the videos to one standard file format for playback on the web site. Can this be done in a shared hosting environment? I will have secure shell access but I will not have full root access. Is this an issue? Can you recommend a good web hosting company? I am…
