[aclug-L] Re: Streaming video/audio

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:18:39PM -0600, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 08:42:22PM -0600, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > You won't be able to do streaming, then, unless there's some format that
> > doesn't require a server.  The way it will usually work is they download th
> > efile (.rm, .ra, .mp3, .mpg, .mov, .qt, whatever), THEN play it.
> > 
> > To do real streaming requires a server, too.  And while I know SouthWind
> > rand a realmedia server at one time for a radio station, they don't any
> > more... and if they were willing to do it again, you'd pay them a LOT of
> > money for it. :-)
> 
> Thanks.  Streaming is out of the picture.  Which is the best format to
> use then?  I don't want to alienate any potential customers because
> they can't view the movie.  Would .mpg be the best?  I believe it is
> available to all platforms.

MPG is pretty well avaialble on all platforms.  Old QT formats are (QT3 and
newer I don't think is viewable in Linux).  AVI is pretty standard.

It depends a lot on what the content is, I suppose.  You might try encoding
it in several formats, and see which is the smallest.  Possibly even make
several formats available online, so people can choose their prefernce.


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