How do you "stream" video for posting to the Internet

Art wrote on 5/9/2002, 12:20 PM

HELP! How do you "stream" video for posting to the Internet. Thanks.

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swarrine wrote on 5/9/2002, 2:02 PM

File>render as> QuickTime or Windows Media, template - anything under 256 kbps. When the file is made, post it to your web site.

SonyDennis wrote on 5/11/2002, 2:46 PM

Correct, render to WMV, Real, QuickTime and post to your site. Users will be able to download and view. True "streaming" requires a streaming server component to be running on your server, that doles our the packets at the right rate so the client receives them "just in time" (hopefully), but I much prefer download and watch, myself. Many of the players will start playing as soon as they have enough downloaded anyway, so you often don't have to wait for the whole download before seeing something.

Pick your render bitrate based on how long people are willing to wait for download and their common connetion speed.

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Jessariah67 wrote on 5/11/2002, 4:00 PM

Actually, true streaming is just a matter of making a text file with a certain content and pointing to it, rather than the media file. Not difficult at all, and you really don't need any special servers now. I stream Real and WM without any problems.