How to stream multimedia files from a website

[Bulldog13]

Good morning

I work for a public affairs office which also does TV broadcasting. They want to be able to stream all or part of their show to the WORLD WIDE INTARWEB.

I am not really sure where to begin as far as questions. Is it just a matter of popping the media file onto the server and wrapping a code snippet around it ? What should the file be encoded as ? What bit rate ? Do I need additional hardware ? What are the bandwidth requirements ? Our server uses asp.

 

[MiniDoom]

A lot really depends on how much traffic you plan on getting. I think people tend to be moving to appliance based systems for steaming media, but you can also use Windows Media Services if you already have a 2003 box. Then use Windows media encoder to change the bit rate. The better the quality, the higher the bit-rate the more bandwidth it will require. You can always do VBR. After you add the file the media server will generate the link mms:\\www.server.com\video.wmv or the code for an embedded media player.

 

[Bulldog13]

How can I do it without a media server ?

 

[MiniDoom]

Originally posted by: Bulldog13
How can I do it without a media server ?

I suppose you could drop the files in your www directory and link to them. www.server/video.wmv.

 

[Bulldog13]

Found the code to do it, thx !