Re: [Nolug] Streaming video server

On 2010-04-17 16:10, Dave Prentice wrote:
> Joey (or any interested party),
> A while back I installed CentOS 5.4 at your suggestion to run my
> little web server. It works great, thanks.
> Lately, I have gotten some rather large videos (400 meg or larger)
> that I would like to stream. The most compact file format seems to be
> wmv. The user can click on them to download and then play them, but I am
> unsure if I could do anything on the server side so that they could be
> able to start playing them immediately (streaming) instead of waiting
> for the download to complete.
>
> First question: is there a smaller commonly used format than wmv?

I'd research what formats that YouTube uses. Also I'd think about
lowering the bitrate.

> Second question: do I need to change or install something on the
> server side to allow streaming?
> Thanks! - Dave P.

YouTube, ESPN, blah blah do "immediate" streaming all day every day.

With Flash, unfortunately. So, there's *is* a better way, but I
don't know it.

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