Streaming Media

[leliphent]

Ok i have an .mpeg file I want to be able to be viewed by the public, but when i click the link to it, it takes like 10 mins to load... so i was thinking that streaming would be a possibility... but as you figured this is all very foreign to me....

can someone suggest how to get this file to view without having to wait 37 days?

[leliphent]

someone needs to know flash pretty well to use this program? that is how it is implemented into a webpage?

[schwartz]

No, you actually don't need to know any flash... just enough to paste code that it generates for you into your html.

[leliphent]

so with this program... what is the typical dl rate? I guess it depends on the size of the video... and maybe this question was answered already, but I am going to ask anyway... is there plug-ins necessary from the client side to view the video?
will this be 56k accessable?

[schwartz]

well over 90% of end-users have flash plugin in their browser (much higher rate than any other "player"). the process to download flash plugin is very simple if they don't.

whenever i output video, i create a low-band (56k) and high-band (maybe 128k or higher) version and give option for both to end-user. make sense?

[leliphent]

lots... I just need to locate a copy of this program I supose...

[leliphent]

werd I got it work using windows movie maker, then embedding video via html...

strange that it was that easy!