Hi Greg, > The current shared web hosting has fast response times for your > standard web page but is shared web hosting usually able to keep up > with the demands of streaming video? > Usually no... > > I have heard that PHP can be used to stream FLV video. Does anyone > have experience or recommendations with this? > We tried this at my work, but opted for a lighttpd with mod_flv_streaming as it is FAST. This is aparently similar to what youtube uses... PHP is not very good at handling files, many of the example PHP scripts for FLV movies load the entire movie into the server's memory for every request so this quickly kills the server. You can write/find a script to load in chunks of the FLV instead, which works better but still isn't as good as the mod_flv_streaming module for Lighttpd. > > Given I have no experience developing in Flash is there any good > quality and cheap specialist progressive download Flash Video hosting > services that people know about that could be used in a similar > fashion to YouTube, i.e. upload the video file and it converts it to > FLV for you, etc. > Converting to FLV is pretty easy, but I don't know any hosting for video services... Having said that why not just use YouTube??
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