Flash Streaming Video

[Wayne Sallee]

Not to confuse live streaming video with regular streamin video, I don't see flash video listed. You list that you support Real player, Microsoft player, and Quick time. I just want to be sure that I can play flash videos too.

I would imagine you would with as popular as flash is, but I did not see it, and wanted to make sure.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

[Eric]

They do, it's all I use on my sites.

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by Wayne Sallee

Not to confuse live streaming video with regular streamin video, I don't see flash video listed. You list that you support Real player, Microsoft player, and Quick time. I just want to be sure that I can play flash videos too.

I would imagine you would with as popular as flash is, but I did not see it, and wanted to make sure.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

If you are wanting streaming servers for any of these methods, HG doesn't have them installed. If you are referencing the ability to do the progressive download while it plays, this can be done.

[Wayne Sallee]

Originally Posted by gtgeorge

If you are wanting streaming servers for any of these methods, HG doesn't have them installed. If you are referencing the ability to do the progressive download while it plays, this can be done.

Yea progressive download while it's playing. And the viewer can also click in the middle of the progress bar, and it will start downloading at that point and play at the same time.

I think this is correclty called streaming video, but not to be confused with live streaming video.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by Wayne Sallee

Yea progressive download while it's playing. And the viewer can also click in the middle of the progress bar, and it will start downloading at that point and play at the same time.

I think this is correclty called streaming video, but not to be confused with live streaming video.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

The play while you download ability is there and some people refer to it as streaming or http streaming but actually is mor a progressive download. For more info you can look here for the differences:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/articl...id=8456&page=1

[Wayne Sallee]

Originally Posted by gtgeorge

The play while you download ability is there and some people refer to it as streaming or http streaming but actually is mor a progressive download. For more info you can look here for the differences:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/articl...id=8456&page=1

Thanks for the link.

So progressive download is just simply a download and the video program on the viewer's computer starts playing as it's downloading.

Streaming allows the viewer to fast forward the clip without having to wait for it to download to that point.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

[Wayne Sallee]

Originally Posted by Eric

They do, it's all I use on my sites.

Thanks. I looked at your websites to see it in action.

I see that gator does not have streaming. Downloading is not so bad, but streaming does have it's advantages.

Thanks,

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Wayne Sallee

Thanks. I looked at your websites to see it in action.

I see that gator does not have streaming. Downloading is not so bad, but streaming does have it's advantages.

Thanks,

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

Yeah I was looking into the flash streaming servers and they're expensive as heck so I'm going to stick with just regular.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Eric

Yeah I was looking into the flash streaming servers and they're expensive as heck so I'm going to stick with just regular.

Hmm, I just found out about something called Red5, http://osflash.org/red5 an open source flash server..! Anyone heard of this or using it?

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by Eric

Hmm, I just found out about something called Red5, http://osflash.org/red5 an open source flash server..! Anyone heard of this or using it?

This was being discussed and is really pretty new. Here are a couple links for you

http://forums.hostgator.com/showthre...highlight=red5

http://forums.hostgator.com/showthre...highlight=red5

[Eric]

Well it sounds cool, know of anyone running it so I can see a demo? I looked on the web but couldn't find any demos as far as I know anyway.

[gtgeorge]

Nope I wasn't able to find a demo etc. Was hoping for someone to report back

[CrazyPCG]

Eric, your sites are very nice. Would you be willing to tell me what you use for your flash videos? And are you on a shared plan, or dedicated server?

[Eric]

Originally Posted by CrazyPCG

Eric, your sites are very nice. Would you be willing to tell me what you use for your flash videos? And are you on a shared plan, or dedicated server?

Thanks, for the flash videos, I bought the player from FlashDen, http://flashden.net/item/flv-player-8-fullscreen/2533

I also bought the player on the top left of the homepage from http://www.afcomponents.com/components/flv_player/

I'm on a dedicated server, those videos use lots of bandwidth and put quite a bit of load on shared servers.

[CrazyPCG]

Okay, that you very much for the info. Much appreciated!

[ucstreaming]

I'm not sure if I will be of any help, as the is an old thread, but I am building a company that does video streaming for small/mid sized churches. I am using flash to do all that. All of our servers are running debian or ubuntu and red5 0.7. This helps us keep our prices low.

If you want, you can check out one of our larger customers, they have over 100 services with us already, and they haven't been with us a year. They read an XML sheet from us, we take stats, and give them back the code for the video player (that is how they embed it).

http://firstchurchabi.org

We have are hosting videos for a ministry called BibleDog.

http://bibledog.org

check em out. If you need help with anything, fill free to email me:

etechship (a) gmail ^ com

If you are interested in the organization I am creating:

http://ucstreaming.net