Thank you for the replies.
Flash and MPG4 seem like a good combination. I'm pretty sure I can already
stream MPEG4 from my Helix server too.
The trouble now is that I know server side tech very well but have no idea when
it comes to client side (Flash)! Browsing around it seems there are a number of
flash player scripts (are they called scripts?) already out there. Does anyone
know one that will do MPEG4 & SMIL without me having to learn Flash and
re-invent the wheel? :-)
Thanks again
Dan
On 17/02/2008 22:55, simon was seen to type:
Hello,
Flash appears to say yes to SMIL:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000589.html
<http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000589.html>
though flash has caused me problems by only implementing limited subsets
of other standard formats (eg limited html tags in flash textareas) so
I wouldn't like to say for sure the flash's understanding of SMIL would
do what you want. I've never used SMIL + flash.
And the best bet I think for an open source flash streaming server for
flv video format is still currently Red5 which hasn't made a 1.0 version
yet: http://osflash.org/red5
If you use MP4 container with h264/aac as your flash video format (from
memory: player 9,0,115,0 onwards), you may have more options for your
server, it's on my list to check this but so far I haven't had time.
S.
On Feb 17, 2008 10:18 PM, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have been googling on
and off
since last year, found nothing and you lot are the best people I
know to ask!
I'm looking for an open source video streaming server & browser
based video
client for the video finish of a charity marathon I run.
I'm already using Helix Server for streaming the video although I
could change
that if required. I'm using Real video for the stream and I guess
it's the
having to ask users to download and install Real Player that's
harsh. While Real
is very good at simultaneous multi-bitrate streaming it's anything
but open and
I know plenty of people that refuse to install Real Player not to
mention to
vulnerabilities!
It would be great to have the video window in the browser so the
user didn't
have to download anything (e.g. VLC) but I think that just leaves
Flash(!?)
which is also not open (although people are at least used to video
in Flash).
The BIG requirement though is that the client can
understand/replicate SMIL
information as the video is stored on the server as a single 1GB
file and
different users are streamed different 20 second clips based on the
time they
went over the finish line. Can Flash even do that?
Any help appreciated.
Dan
P.S. I'm using the term Open Source as a indication of the ideal,
I'm a fan of
open source so I would like to use it with free software being the
next choice
but as this is a charity marathon we have no money to throw at
commercial software.
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