Audio Video streaming problem

[jeedesign]

I am currently working on a modeling web site and I want to offer a online portfolio where models

can post their photos, audio and video files, thus making it a multimedia based portfolio.

Here is the list of the files I plan to allow the models to upload in their portfolio
Photos - .gif, .jpg, .bmp
Audio - .mpeg, wma, mp3, ram and wav
Video - .avi, .mpeg, .mpg, .ram, and .mov

I am trying to find a way for users of this site to view the audio/video files without having any

file format specific plug-in or player installed on their desktops. So far I have concluded that it

would be best if somehow I can manage to stream down the audio and video files on the client’s

desktop in Flash format since this would require the clients to have only a Flash player which is a

very common plug-in now a days.

I am seeking a way to convert the various files that models upload i.e mpeg, wma, mp3, ram, wav,

avi, .mpeg, .mpg, .rm, and .mov to a common swf Flash format.

Is anyone aware of such a tool or piece of application that would automatically convert all uploaded

files to Flash format. Also if there is a Flash component that would allow real-time streaming of

the flash files in the client’s browser without saving the swf files in the Internet Cache or

Temporary Internet Files folder.

Any help, advice or pointers on this matter would be highly appreciated. If anyone has developed

such a feature in the past then I am also open to buying that from him (of course I can’t pay a lot

of money).

Let me know.

Thanks
V

[JAB Creations]

AVI, MPEG, QT and other quick time compatible extensions for videos will work fine if you set the player to be quick time and it should work on both MACs and PCs.

[danimal]

most people don't know that flash became common largely because it's been bundled with winxp since winxp was released... but windows media player has also been bundled with winxp since day one, and before... so it is also very common.

no matter, i have never heard of a web-based app that will re-encode uploaded video files automatically.

even if there was one, the picture quality of the video clips would look horrible... it's very difficult to re-encode a tiny web-sized video clip that was uploaded via the 'net... not enuf data to work with.

since they are models, you want the best quality, they'll have to pay someone to make up web video clips for 'em, using the original source video tapes.