Re: What's needed to stream to the web?

On Feb 18, 5:30 pm, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Nick Mirro"  wrote ...

We want to stream instructional videos (probably mpeg4) files from
sites hosted on our debian linux server.  Files are 5 to 20 mb.

What are the requirements to stream mpeg4?  Will it stream
automatically in quicktime, real, etc., or will it require a streaming
server?

Just for my education, do any formats stream automatically?  I
thought .wmv would using media player.

Why not just try it? Put some video files in various formats on a
page and browse to it.  Not sure you have provided enough info
to get a definitive answer. (Like which web server, mime type
settings, etc.)

This is also a rather off-topic question for this newsgroup. While
there are likely people here (like me) who serve their video productions
online, there are better forums where web-server questions (and
streaming media questions) are seen and answered by web server
(and media server) experts.

Certainly trying it for yourself would prove far more definitive than
anything we could say here.  If you want a larger sampling of what
will stream (or not), put your test page URL here and solicit user
results.

By MPEG4 do you mean Quicktime?  H.264?  How did you decide
on MPEG4?  I am contemplating changing one of the websites I
manage to use a more universal encoding for online videos.

Helpful reply. Thanks. Yes I noticed this being the wrong group.
Found 'website & development' and posted there.

I had done what you said and was wondering if there was a definitive
source about streaming. Here was my result:

- wmv streamed in media player
- avi did not
- swf (flash) won't steam without Adobe streaming server. Therefore
creating videos with something like Jing requires hosting for good
results
- .mp4 wouldn't open in IE for some reason. There was no response to
a link such as http://url/filename.mp4 DIVX and quicktime can both
open it locally.

We are running SBS 03, which for these purposes in like MS server 03.
The linux is debian. For linux, I am seeing that videolan has an
opensource streaming server, though our linux distribution might take
some tweaking.

I am wanting mp4 because Jing pro has a terrifically easy and cheap
utility for creating live screen captures. It supposedly creates
large screen area, low bandwidth steams.
.

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