Paul, On the streaming side you really have three options-- Real Player, Windows Media and Flash -- and each have their pros and cons associated with each technology.
Since you already have a real server configured, you might want to create an .rpm file containing the path of the real media video file (such as pnm:// or rtsp://myInternalserver.com/myRealFile.rm). Then call the .rpm file from your <object> tag when you call the stream. This will allivate(sp) some of your security concerns. Of course you will need to lock down the web server to prevent outsiders from accessing the text .rpm file directly to find the real location of the stream. Some gotachs to look out for when using this approach. Real Server streams on port 7007-- most firewalls block this port. Although Real will let you stream from port 80, you will need to have Real Server on a seperate machine. You will also need to make sure everyone has downloaded the Real Plugin as well using this approach. In this day, where sysadmins lock down workstations pretty tighly, some users may not be able to download the plugin. If you have the orininal AVIs and WAV files you might want to consider either using Flash Communication Server or the free Windows Media Server route, since more folks have these plugins On the other hand going from RM to MPEG to another format could take a lot of the quality away from the video. You also might want to check the encoding bitrate of the video as well. If you have employees dialing in, they will never be able to view a video streamed at a broadband rate Jeremy Brodie p3 Web Development >thanks Michael >its on a secure server & just for internal use >the only reason they want it streamed is that they are pretty chunky files. >training videos that can be over 20 minutes long.. > >guess i will look into setting up a real server, since we own it. >just dislike its format & the way they treat there clients... >-paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
