Thanks for the help Matt.

I found a link that may be helpful to you Abigail:

http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/streaming.htm 

You may want to convert the WM files to RM using Real's free utility.

HTH,
Will

-----Original Message-----
From: Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Streaming video

This may be of some help:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26320.html - Real to create a
server
to run on most O/S's that will stream Windows Media as well as Quick
Time/Real etc.

I'm sure I once knew of a way to stream WM files over the web, you might
be
able to use http and serve the files on port 80 over a normal web
connection.  I'd recommend Technet or MSDN as good sources for info on
this,
a quick search on google comes up with a few results, I've tried ASF
Recorder for playing WMA/WMV files on Linux and it works pretty well, it
also picks up streams over http and mms so I guess it's possible... its
available here: http://free.top.bg/asfrecord/.

Hope this helps,

MAtt



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Abigail Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 12 December 2002 08:26
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Streaming video
>
>
>On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 2:55:00 PM, 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] commented:
>
>cwc> Any tips on streaming video?  My client wants to do that, 
>but I do not
>cwc> know the first thing about it.  Do you need a special 
>server or software
>cwc> or what?
>
>cwc> Thanks!
>cwc> Will Stewart
>
>Same issue here - I tentatively am going to host the video
>on playstream <http://www.playstream.com/> - I like the
>scalability as their price for on-demand streaming video
>starts at $5/monthly. Also, I called their 800 number and
>got a quick response from a knowledgeable person (direct,
>specific answers to all my questions) -always a good sign.
>
>But I haven't really compared prices. (With the prices
>listed at playstream, I'm not really inclined to - it seems
>to me that if I find something cheaper, I can always move
>the files later on)
>
>I did find out that I can't host my media on my servers,
>because I have BSD Unix servers and the media is in Windows
>Media format, which apparently can only be served from
>MS Windows servers.  But I'm concerned about bandwidth and
>server load anyway - it's just one less headache to put the
>media elsewhere.
>
>Real Media & Quicktime apparently can be streamed with
>freeware from any sort of platform, so if you are making the
>decision as to which format to use, you might consider that.
>
>Anyway, it kind of depends on what your client wants to do
>and intended usage. My project is 6 or 7 short on-demand
>video clips; live webcasting is a different story.
>
>-Abigail
>
>
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