Streaming Video to Mobile

[sscoder]

Is there a way to stream Windows Media video on your phone? Or use the phone's own player to view video? Can someone point me to the right direction?

[jtara]

Most mobile phones that support streaming or downloaded video use the 3GP format:

[en.wikipedia.org...]

[3gpp.org...]

Windows Media would limit you to SmartPhones that use the Windows Mobile platform, which is a small percentage of all mobile phones.

[sscoder]

I am looking into that now. Do I embed it this way to view on mobile?

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
WIDTH="176"HEIGHT="170"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="themovie.3gp">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="false">
<param NAME="type" VALUE="video/quicktime">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="themovie.3gp" WIDTH="176" HEIGHT="170"
AUTOPLAY="false" CONTROLLER="true" type="video/quicktime"PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

[Taffa]

I wouldn't use embedding with mobile sites it's not yet enough supported in mobile browsers.

Instead use plain links

<a href="video.3gp">Watch movie</a>

Also make sure that your server sends correct mime-types
If you have apache then add following lines to .htaccess

AddType video/3gpp 3gp 3gpp
AddType video/mp4 mp4

To make links more attractive you can also use image links to show a screenshot just remember to specify alt-attribute.

[sscoder]

I am using an NT server. How would I set up the server to send correct mime-types for this?