Hi, > What I am trying to understand, Hetz, is WHAT kind of a permanent link do > you want between the two machines? Replication? DRP? Failover?
Quite simple... I need to do some video streaming for an audience who have no clue about Quicktime, Real Player, or even downloading/installing plugins. So the most common player is (quite unfortunately) is Windows media player. Streaming through http is a bad idea since it downloads ALL the video, and then play it. Thats why there's MMS (ASF, ASX, MMS) protocol which lets you play while it continues downloading the video clips (which are pretty long). I looked for Linux based solutions to stream to WMP. Almost all of them do not support MMS. The closest I found was VideoLan, but it's VOD functionality sucks (it plays immediately when you launch it instead of waiting for request), and FFMPEG's ffserver (which Microsoft blocked with Windows Media 9 player). I have looked at Macromedia's solutions as well, but they ask for $500 for a personal (and very limited) version, and my sites are not commercial, and their streaming support simply sucks (it really brings the real player 1 memories... :)) So now the only solution that I see here is to purchase a minimum Win2003 package, put all the video clips in the Linux server and connect between them, so while the apache on the linux serves the pages, the Windows MMS serves the video. A really ugly solution, I know.. Hope this explains.. Hetz ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
