I worked on a project that involved Quicktime streaming and database integration. As the project progressed I learned a few lessons:
Real is robust and makes things easy. However, server software costs can be excessive and the quality of the video is not that great. Quicktime is very robust and with tools such as Live Stage from Totally Hip Software, can integrate with Filemaker or a SQL database and pass XML commands. Downside of this is the programming time required to do this. Plus side is that the streaming software is free and works on Mac, Windows, and several flavors of Linux/Unix. Windows Media has decent quality and the streaming software is free. If all you want to do is serve up streaming video quickly and easily, this is a good solution, but it does not have capabilities of Real or Quicktime. I am sold on Quicktime, although Real and Windows Media have their merits. John Chadwick On 10/2/02 8:31 AM, "Anne Botman" <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have advice or stats about streaming video formats in terms of > user acceptance? > > We outsource our Web hosting services and I am wondering which video formats > to support and develop. We are currently offering some streaming video in > both Windows Media and QuickTime formats, but not through our usual hosting > company. Our regular provider offers streaming only in REAL format but not > Windows Media or QuickTime. > > We will be digitizing some video for a new project this year and we can > prepare multiple formats, but I would appreciate advice about which formats > to offer. This will help me set-up the video hosting requirements as well. > > Thanks, > > Anne > ___________ > Anne Botman > Senior Web Development Officer > Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature > Tel: 613.566.4243 > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://nature.ca > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
