Option 1: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/
<http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/>Option 2:
https://media.dreamhost.com/ ... Using a combination of a Flash player and
ffmpeg to convert. This is definitely the more common option.
Jerry Wilborn
jerrywilborn@gmail.com
On Sat, 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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