streaming video

[Candace]

The following html code provides access to a link for an AVI file on my
website. Can anyone assist me with what code I need to include with this code
in order for my video to "stream," instead of making the people wait until
the entire file downloads before the video will start playing on their PCs?

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[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

I've had some luck getting .WMV to stream by using an M3U file:
http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html

but I'm not sure about the .AVI.
AVI files are usually pretty big so you might want to look at saving the
movie in a different format and working from there.

I have a friend who always puts her Christmas TV commercial on her site and
I do it with Flash (an .swf file to play the video which itself is an .flv
file). it came to me as a 20MB .avi file and ended up as a 2MB .flv. It
also streams pretty well so that there's little or no hesitation in the
browser.

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[Mike Mueller]

HTTP by design is a download then view protocal. The only true way to stream
would be to use a streaming protocal such as RTSP, which is not part of most
web hosting packages

What you can do; though, is to:
#1 Encode your video to a compressed file; such as WMV, using Windows Media
Encoder
#2 Embed the video into your webpage, instead of providing a link to it

The following code will display the video player on the page, and will work
with most browsers

<object type="video/x-ms-wmv" data="http://www.domain.com/video-name.wmv"
width="320" height="305">
<param name="src" value="http://www.domain.com/video-name.wmv">
<param name="autostart" value="true">
</object>

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Or convert the media to Flash which will stream w/o a special server
See http://www.blue-pacific.com/products/turbinevideo/default.htm

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| HTTP by design is a download then view protocal. The only true way to stream
| would be to use a streaming protocal such as RTSP, which is not part of most
| web hosting packages
|
| What you can do; though, is to:
| #1 Encode your video to a compressed file; such as WMV, using Windows Media
| Encoder
| #2 Embed the video into your webpage, instead of providing a link to it
|
| The following code will display the video player on the page, and will work
| with most browsers
|
| <object type="video/x-ms-wmv" data="http://www.domain.com/video-name.wmv"
| width="320" height="305">
| <param name="src" value="http://www.domain.com/video-name.wmv">
| <param name="autostart" value="true">
| </object>
|
|
|
| | > The following html code provides access to a link for an AVI file on my
| > website. Can anyone assist me with what code I need to include with this
| > code
| > in order for my video to "stream," instead of making the people wait until
| > the entire file downloads before the video will start playing on their
| > PCs?
| >
| > <li><font
| > size="4"><ahref="Training/Aric/20071112/Spelling.avi">Spelling</a></font></li>
| >
|