Andy wrote:
On 23/01/2008, Phil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Without looking it up, the previous reply (from a Gnash dev IIRC) was that the
BBC are
using the latest version of Adobe Flash Streaming Server, and this has dropped
support for
streaming over HTTP.
I remembered it being described as deprecated. My interpretation of
deprecated is that it isn't recommended to use it but it still can be
used. Normally it means it will be removed sometime in the future. For
instance I can use a Deprecated Method in Java and it will still wok
but I will get a warning and it may be removed from Java in the
future. I therefore assumed that RTMP could still be used but wasn't
the recommended approach. I may have been wrong though. (Why would
anyone remove something useful from a software application anyway?
More importantly why would anyone trust a vendor that did that with
their Mission Critical software applications?).
You seem to be confusing yourself as RTMP has not been removed and is
the recommended approach with http apparently being deprecated.
They probably removed http streaming as it isn't that efficient and it
makes it easy for people to download the flv videos. With the streaming
the videos are harder to copy plus you get the benefits that if you skip
forward in a video you don't have to wait for the flv to download to
that point.
When YouTube upgrade, they too will probably lose support for
streaming over HTTP as well.
They currently stream over HTTP don't they? This the BBC could
*currently* do the same.
See above. Like other people have pointed out when You Tube next
upgrade they will probably stop the current http streams.
Also, I previously asked you if you knew of any alternatives the BBC could have
used. To
quote you: "Any chance you could actually answer the questions I asked?"
To quote you:
This has also been answered before (the last time you asked it, actually). I'm
not
entirely convinced you've actually been reading replies, or if you have,
actually paying
them much attention.
Apache has the power to serve files over HTTP. You should check it out
http://www.apache.org/ . Stick a file in a location it can access and
clients can stream from it.
Red5 likely still does HTTP. http://osflash.org/red5
First hit on Google for "Video Streaming Software":
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
(VLC can behave as a server as well as doing playback)
Supports multiple formats and protocols.
Apache is okay, but no security and it can only do http, VLC can do
different streams but it is only designed for streaming one video and
makes use of multicast and this is not available with many ISPs, so both
of this suggestions are unusable.
Adam
