Re: [Nolug] Streaming video server

From: Dennis J Harrison Jr <dennisharrison_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:54:37 -0500
Message-ID: <z2v6e8b29e1004180954i3c2352ddqf6ce0082151672db@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Jerry Wilborn <jerrywilborn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Option 1: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/
> Option 2: https://media.dreamhost.com/%a0%a0... 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?
>>

FLV if you want to see it via the browser and hurt the users cpu, flv
now a days is h264 mostly right? If so, this is a really good format,
high quality with a rather low bitrate.

>> 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.
>>

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and forum searching. You'll be happy/impressed with :
http://www.kaltura.org/

>> 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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