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  • 26-05-2009 10:39pm
    #1
    Reoil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,
    I'm looking to upload a video to my website hosting and let users view the video by streaming it.

    What are the best ways to achieve this? I'm just looking for a small player which will link to the file (more than likely a flv I'm guessing) and display it.
    The freer the better ;)

    What are my best options?

    Cheers!


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    #2
    p
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    Search for the JW Player. It's a nice free flash video player.

    On a technical note, that's not really streaming, it's just viewing the file. Streaming requires a different type of special server.


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    #3
    Reoil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    Thanks for the reply p, I found JW Player before reading your reply! :)
    Got it configured and working. Just looking into being into embed it into a vbulletin forum.

    Just the ticket though, free and simple to configure.

    Until now I perceived "streaming" to be downloading and watching in a video file in a player without have to "save and download" it as you normally would.

    What's the difference between "proper" streaming and JW Player?

    Cheers!


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    p
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    Hard thing to describe, but the easiest way is to think of Live TV, thats' streaming, since you're only sending portions of the video as it plays.


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    aidan_walsh
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    The real definition of streaming has gotten a little confused in these days of YouTube and other on demand videos. Streaming is, as p says, more equatible to live TV online - when you start streaming you're starting to look at it from the point that it is at currently, as opposed to from the beginning at your leisure. That is really a more traditional "progressive download" type video.


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