Streaming Video Approach

[rogerd]

I just had a client spring a new one on me: he wants to put a 7-minute video on his site. This is a low volume, industrial site, and I anticipate very little in the way of viewing. The odds of this becoming a cult classic and being circulated virally around the web are nil, so big bandwidth concerns don't really apply.

Thus, I'm trying to find the simplest way to make this available to the odd visitor who actually decides to watch it.

Any advice on how to convert the video into a replayable format, and then make it available to visitors? The client site is in a shared server environment, so elegant server-based solutions are problematic. Thanks...

[Knowles]

If you cant do server based then streaming or download would be the only option right? Streaming is really not correct since its already made so its not live. Maybe I am being to untechnical but just put a link to to it let them click on it and it will open RM WMP QT which ever format you have it in. Hey give them options put it in all 3 formats.

[keyplyr]

RealPlayer would be set up like this:

Upload your encoded RealVideo files (files with the .rm extension) to your client's account in Binary mode.

Use a text editor to create a metafile containing a RealVideo URL. For example, the contents of your metafile should be in the following form:

[yourdomain.com...]

Save the metafile as a text file with the .ram extension. For example:

filename.ram

Then FTP this file to your Virtual Server in ASCII mode.

In your HTML document, reference the metafile in a hyperlink. For example:

<A HREF="filename.ram">
or
<A HREF="http://yourdomain.com/path/filename.ram">

You can use relative or complete paths. If you use complete paths, you must include both the hostname and the complete path.