On Mon, March 19, 2007 2:31 pm, Don Gould wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: >> Don you can't expect help if you won't give us some realistic info about >> what you want to acheive. > > At present I'm simply trying to learn about the technology. > > As I said previously, my Dad expressed interest in it the other day. He > talked about an idea that I think is about as realistic as the last few > ideas we've worked on. > > However it got me thinking. As a kid I used to love making home movies.. > I have all the technology to do stuff now, so why not have a go. > > I thought that having a few media files, about the CIA project I'm > doing, would be fun. > > I also think it would be quite a cool thing to get the LES kids into. > > I'd also like to do some media files/"Home Movies" about the community > networking project. > > "How to run a cable" > "How to put a plug on a cable" > "How to put more than one network card in a pc" > "How to put up an antenna on your roof" > > I real don't expect that many people will be interested in these so > there won't be huge amount of traffic. > > If I build something that heaps of people want to use then I guess that > I'll have to look at how I slow down each connection so that everyone > can have a fair go. > > I'm not worried about the cost of data. If I end up creating something > that is popular then I'll look at selling some ads or something to help > pay for it, or I could ask someone to sponsor it - amounts to the same > thing. > > It's all very academic at present because I clearly don't even know how > to turn the media files, that come out of my camera, in to something > that anyone can download. > > Having said that, I have all the software I need to do it on a Microsoft > platform. I've had the software for almost 10 years now. But I don't > want to do it on MS, I want to serve this up off a Linux platform. I > want to do that just because it's fun to try something different. > > > The primary benefit of a streaming data feed is that you can start the > feed half way through. With an AVI you have to download the whole thing > before you can start playing. >
No you don't. It depends on the player. With mplayer those videos of yours start to play when the cache is approx 50% full. -- Nick Rout
