Don't think so....

Search it for Longest Video or something, there is a 4+ hour video of some guy recording random crap from his day.

I think the limit is 100MB, which probably works out to be about 10 minutes at a decent quality, but since you will only be using text/voice I would have thought you can compress it a little

gone are the days of uploading vids to youtube more than 10 min. The only people that are allowed these days are the 'Gurus' that were allowed before that rule came in

In my personal experience, it usually takes a lot longer. I worked on a video site last year. It took about 1 week to get a basic working prototype (2 developers). The actual project went on for 6 months. It would probably take less time if I did it again, but I'd say a few days would be a better estimate.

If you transcode files to FLV manually, that would reduce development time. There are however, good Video CMSs already available. I'll try and post a few sites we looked at here when I find them again.

True, a few days is more accurate. If I didn't run into problems like I always do it wouldn't take more than a few hours though.

What about the site made it take 6 months to complete?

Looks like I will have to Macgyver myself a video cms but the only problem is displaying/streaming the video. The best method I can think of is by using Java but does anybody know of tutorials or simple open source scripts that will stream the videos from preferably the file format wmv using Java. This includes pausing the video, playing the video and viewing in full screen. Hope there is a good java tutorial for such script. Thanks.

I just use a flash flv player and send the video data to it via php.

This is simple one I use for most projects: http://code.google.com/p/flvplayer/

There are other ones that are just as good, I just liked the setup of this one.

I find Flash to be a nightmare to code so are there any equivalents for Java?

You don't have to code anything in flash. All you have to do is supply a url to the file and it will play it.

Thats it.

I'll give it a try but for the moment my Internet is about to get the cut so will try soon.

I just downloaded the google flv player but when browsing the links there is no official documentation it seems. Is this correct because other than the download at the link you provided I can't find any information on how to use the downloaded swf file.