[thelist] Streaming video
Pierre-Henri Lavigne
lavigne at getphuture.com
Wed Aug 9 17:14:01 CDT 2006
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 17:16, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> I have been googling and reading for two days on streaming video from a
> web site hoping that the age old question of format would have been
> solved. I now feel more lost than ever. Multiple versions? Convert all
> to Flash video? Can I get some advice on how to sort through the maze?
>
> Thanks!
I think it's difficult to answer the question. First I would advise you to
know what your host supports (rtsp - mms -... streaming), your original file
format (avi ?) and the target public.
In 2003, I searched a good faq to put online videos for a music band. I was a
newbie and it was for an embedded popup player. I had to test everything
myself (WMP, RP, QT). Finally I used Real Player. To my mind it's the only
one that can be launched under Windows, Mac and Linux / Unix, embeddable in
their default browser (IE, Safari, Konqueror) and a good plugin for Mozilla
too. I used the free unlimited demo version of Helix Encoder. Because of
limited options, it took me some hours with Virtual Dumb to resize .avi
before encoding. About accessibility, it's better to use them with SMIL
files.
About flash, the flash plugin version 7 is minimum required to read .flv or
something like this. The version 7 is still beta with most unix
distributions. No WMP or QT for Linux / Unix. So I can't advise you to use
one of them. That's my choice. Work requirements are different and I had the
chance to use Flash 8 for videos a few month ago. Really good but if I had to
suggest it to a client, it would be for sites like
http://www.habitatfieldlog.com
To conclude an article on Evolt would be welcome.
You can tell me if I'm wrong and I hope this will help you a little
Cheers
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Pierre-Henri Lavigne
lavigne at getphuture.com
Tel: +33 (0)6.18.75.32.67
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