listen to prerecorded seminars?

[r1012]

can you have a prerecorded seminar or radio show link on a regular html web site? I want to put links on a web site so people can listen to recorded seminars & recorded radio shows that I have permission to use. It is just a straight html site.

Do I have to use JAVA: ASP; or CGI scripts? do I have to do that from the server side with Java: ASP or CGI scripts?

Can someone point me in the right direction to get a lot more information about doing this? Hopefully a not to techincal site but something in layman terms.....

Thank you

[PeOfEo]

Is it saved as a file or do you intent to stream it to users. It is possible and you do not need cgi asp or jaava etc. But if you want to stream you are going to need to talk to your server admin to talk about on demand streaming.

[r1012]

Please excuse my ignorance but what is the difference? Is one better than the other for listing to from computer/speakers? I know absolutly zero about voice/music/video over the internet.....

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

streaming = they download bits and pieces as they watch it. so it's harder for them to steal the movie.(way harder unless they have premade software that rips it... which i've never heard of but im sure its out there somewhere)

downloading full then watching = it won't skip if they knock out their internet, but it takes much longer for the page to load and then they have to wait for it to download and they can steal it easily and.... the list goes on.

streaming = you have to buy software to do and put it on your server. i have never used streaming because i have never put movies on a webpage. peofeo, would you like to tell him how it all works and where he could get a streamer?

[PeOfEo]

Depends on whst you stream, if its video or audio but there is are a lot of different stream server programs. Webradio programs for example, like shoutcast. But if you want to have a file the user has to dl it at the start and that could take a while. But if it is a 56k user the stream could get choppy. They will both kill your bandwidth however :rolleyes:

[r1012]

Thanks for the information right now I only plan on doing voice streaming maybe video in 6 to 12 months. Are there any tutorials that go into more details on the internet or here at this site?
thanks all for the input it has cleared up some of my questions but I am a slow learner so it also created some more questions.

[PeOfEo]

Well I am not the best authority on configging a stream server but I do use shoutcast. But unfortunatly you cant run that off of a hosts server :P, but basically it was an audio stream so If you want audio you can use that. It can be played through a site embedded video window or one of those little embedded mp3s rathers, so basically a windows media player thing would be on your site if you wanted to embed it. You could also use a link, it would open a new browser window and the browser would handle it or open it with media player.