RE: [Nolug] Off-topic from off-topic -- that is, back on-topic

At the moment, progressive QuickTime download would be the best quality/file
size ratio due to QuickTime being the base for mpeg4 and due to Sorenson
codecs. DivX does not stream yet and it wants very beefy machine to play
back properly. (excellent quality tho) I wouldn't even think about mpeg-1 or
mpeg-2.

Real Media is not too bad either and their Real media server 7 was a free
streaming server for up to 10 concurrent streams. I haven't tested their
Helix server. QuickTime server might be available for Linux also.

Petri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Scott Harney
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 6:41 AM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Off-topic from off-topic -- that is, back on-topic
>
>
> mpeg3=mp3 so that's music only. mpeg video though is probably
> your best bet
> for a universal format. But it's the least compressed. Anyone
> one know if
> you can stream divx -- I'm not really up to date these days on streaming
> video formats. Used to be you had a choice of windows media,
> Quicktime, or
> Real. The latter may be a good choice soon should they opensource
> it as they
> have said they might
>
> On Monday 16 December 2002 00:35, Dave Prentice wrote:
> > Manuel,
> > I hate to disrupt the discussion about cable/DSL to ask an actual
> > Linux question, but here goes: I see you are interested in streaming
> > stuff. For video, what's the best overall format to have on a web
> > server so most anybody can download/stream it? mpeg2, mpeg3, or what?
> > I have some educational videotapes a friend says he can convert for
> > me, but needs to know what format to put them into.
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Prentice
> > prentice@instruction.com
> >
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