YouTube uses flv behind the flash player and h.264 when visited by an
html5 browser.
If a browser is not required I'd check MythTV. I think it does network
streaming.
If it has to do web delivery, look for the VideoPress sources. It can
handle conversion and playing. Really complicated and requires work to
set up, but it has most of the pieces.
Jess
On Apr 17, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 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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