[K12OSN] Streaming video

Brian Chivers brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Tue Jan 27 19:16:04 UTC 2009


Dan Young wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Brian Chivers
> <brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
>>     
>>>> I've looked @ VLC and have it sort of working but the embedding into a
>>>> page is causing problems. I don't really want them to have to download the
>>>> whole program before it starts as happens if you just embed the file into a
>>>> webpage.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You might want to look @ something like http://flowplayer.org/
>>>
>>> It is basically the same type of technology used by YouTube and the
>>> like..
>>>
>>> Lets you have the Files on your www server and then just uses flash to
>>> stream them to the client...
>>>       
>> That was my line of thought but I couldn't get the files to convert very
>> well to flash video that will run full screen on a 42" TFT .  If anyone has
>> managed this with ffmpeg I'd be VERY please to hear about it :-)
>>     
>
> I did this for the Inauguration:
> http://wiki.videolan.org/Flash_Video
>
> I streamed to the JW FLV Player applet, though I probably would have
> used FlowPlayer had I known about it. Worked great; VLC transcoded a
> live over-the-air broadcast to FLV1/mp3 and served up 100 streams
> without breaking a sweat.
>
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> Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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>   
I did think of that but couldn't get the files to high enough quality 
for fullscreen use. I'm looking a unreal server @ the mo & it's looking 
good :-)

Brian

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