Video streaming

[Chemikilla]

Alright, I've been trying to do this for a while now and I have no idea where to ask. Basically, there are a lot a lot of live flash radio web sites where the music is playing and controlled by some sort of administrator. I want to do this, but with 2-3 minute music videos, and preferably all of this would be done on the server. So, you would pull up a web page and on the page would be a youtube sort of flash player and it would be playing a music video streamed from a directory of videos(flv?) on the server like a video radio which I could change at anytime and everybody would be watching the same thing in real time. I've been looking everywhere how to do this and I think it can be done with Adobe Flash Media Server. Is this right? Any help/links/tutorials/suggestions would be awesome and very much appreciated. Thanks in advanced.

[tattooedscorpdc]

I highly recommend looking at Silverlight as opposed to Flash for streaming video... Netflix uses it and a recent article I have read has expressed that MLB.com moving from Silverlight to Flash has brought more issues to the surface with games being streamed .... new developments are coming out quite rapidly from Microsoft to bring Silverlight to the lead in video streaming and vector graphic animation.

Here is where MS puts out tutorials for learning SL
http://silverlight.net/Learn/

AN article with pointers for streaming with source code
http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_griffin/archive/2008/02/19/silverlight-video-streaming-solution-with-source-code.aspx

and more on streaming video with SL..
http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Articles/YourvideotoSilverlightStreaming101/tabid/115/Default.aspx

Larry Darrah
MS AE

[tedscoffee]

If your video file is not huge and your website hit rate is not that high, then you can host them on your own website. You should first convert your video in FLV (Flash Video) format and then use a flash player to play it on your website as streaming video.

Check out this Video Player software (http://video.a4desk.com)which does both -- it can convert your mpG, AVI, WMV file into FLV, then you can choose a video player skin to embed into your webpage.