Flash video streaming

[tigah1]

Hi,

It's looking like my best option for streaming video is with Flash, can anybody confirm my research here:

1) The video to be streamed is exported by Flash MX Professional in .FLV format.

2) The FLV video is then called by a Flash movie.

3) The FLV video requires the add-on Flash Communication Server 2004 product to stream. Alternatively, you could host with the 3rd-party VitalStream.

Also, given that I only need to stream two small (5mb) files to a fairly small audience, would it be better to go with Progressive FLV instead of Streaming FLV and save the cost of buying the Communication Server?

thanks,
Geoff

[dcoltonbrown]

Maybe this will help

http://flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=537635

[tigah1]

Appreciate the link, but we're not doing live video streaming, just streaming files. Didn't appear to answer any of my questions for this case.

[dcoltonbrown]

I am no expert, but why wouldn't you just create a seperate swf for each movie clip and play them in a empty movie clip when they are called? Especially if they are only 5 mb

[tigah1]

Because 5mb is still a little bit of a wait on broadband, let alone on dialup. Streaming allows the user to view the portions of the video they've downloaded, greatly reducing wait times.