ENCODING STREAMING VIDEO

Hi, I have encoded several .MOV files (Web Streaming) and uploaded them to an HTTP server (not a video specific server). When I create a hyperlink, to stream the video, the QT player will open and play on my Mac but not my PC. The PC Explorer window begins a download instead of playing the video. I have uninstalled QT and downloaded/installed the latest flavor from Apple but get the same result. Anyone? Thanks!

Mr. Kelly is right..most PC's don't have Quicktime installed. The most common format for video on a PC is WMV. You can convert your video to that with Flip4Mac, or Visual Hub, however, those require $$ for the license. I recently discovered a site, HERE, that says it will convert stuff for free, but there might be a catch to that.

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You can give the URL as "rtmp://localhost/live"
where rtmp is the protocol used for streaming from FMLE to FMS.
localhost is the name or IP address of the machine on which FMS is. I have used localhost becuase i have assumed that your FMLE and FMS are on same machine else use IP adrress or name if the machine on which FMS is instead of localhost.
Live is the apploiction that is there in applocations folder of FMS.
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What camara should I buy?

I'm not sure if the Vixia series can be used to provide realtime video to a PC. They're not really designed for this purpose - they are primarily recording devices.
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While you're correct that you can embed flash in your
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size video files. Using the Sorenson codec which is what would be
required by your suggestion, means that the video tends to be quite
pixillated and limited to a small frame size, otherwise you end up
with lots of buffering delays.
Our solution allows you to run fullscreen video of unlimited
length from within Presenter and it works in self-paced
presentations and meeting room environments too.
On the issue of posting information about a product on a
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I've had numerous people contact me saying they have been
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It's not my intent to offend, only to raise awareness.
Thanks for listening,
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Slow, jerky streaming video on G4 iMac

I am running Leopard 10.5.3 with no problems on a 1GHz G4 iMac with 1 gig of RAM. However, streaming video is virtually unwatchable: it is always slow and jerky. My internet connection is a steady 6.5 mbps down.
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Thanks. . .

Streaming video from over the internet isn't going to tax your video card.
It's going to be either the broadband connection, the wireless, or the CPU struggling with an advanced video codec like H264.
The MDD starts to struggle at about 1500kbps video/audio in H264 decompression. If you have any other processes running (like Spotlight Indexing in OSX 10.4 and 10.5 - which is a real killer just after a fresh install) then you're even more severely limited, perhaps 1300kbps.
Sustained AirPort 'b' (for MDD) tops out at about 4000kbps with a perfect signal. The advertised 11Mbps is theoretical and something close may only be possible in a burst mode. Even if your wireless strength is perfect, there may be interference that will cut throughput in half, then half again.
Don't know your broadband connection, but ISPs here in the UK use "traffic shaping", cutting back on our 8Mbps throughput to little more than 2Mbps, sometime less during busy periods (evenings, weekends, if you live in a primarily residential area).
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I just got a PB - is there a way to stream video to a PB the way that you can with an iPad using Air Video? Either on your LAN or over the net?

Yes you can stream media you have in your home network to the playbook.
The playbook will play an AVI or MP4 on your PC, if you setup sharing this folder using http.
But then, only those videos will play which the playbook supports - and this is a very limited amount.
Better install a media server. No coding required, just a little editing of an xml file + some free software.
its not perfect, but, works acceptable for me.
download tversity. This is an implementation of an upnp mediaplayer for Windows.
The playbook is able to playback streaming media of different kinds, but it has serveral limitations, like not AC3 supported in an AVI or no mkv playback.
With tversity, you can setup a profile so that everything gets transcoded to Windows Media9. You need a Windows PC however (dont know, if there is a media-player software for mac or linux which is able to transcode to Windows Media9). Also, the PC you use should be not something old. Use a modern I5 or I7, otherwise, it wont be able to transcode all your movies in realtime.
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terminate the service
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open that with notepad or wordpad
search for xbox
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language reference for specific functions mentioned here will also
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Hello,
I am trying to create streaming video using flash. I've
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1. I am currently hosting my streaming video on
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I do however want to warn you about a possible pitfall of
making the presenter's video by recording with a digital cammera in
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Review, edit and decide how you like the presentation video
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The video stream is sent from the camera to an encoder-Cisco uses several from members of the Cisco Ecosystem Partner Program-for encoding at different bit rates. From there, the stream is sent to the Cisco External Media Hub, located at Cisco headquarters in San Jose, California (Figure 3). The Cisco External Media Hub comprises Windows Media and RealMedia streaming video servers and acts as the egress points for streams sent to external audience members. Rather than sending the stream directly to external audience members, which would unnecessarily increase traffic on the Cisco network, the Cisco External Media Hub sends the stream to a global Internet service provider, which then directs the stream to the viewer from the closest server
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I need to be able to support high quality video, 640x480 at
30 fps. I began by following the tutorial in "Beginner's guide to
streaming live video with Flash Media Server 3 by Tom Green. The
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fashmediaserver/articles/beginner_live_fms3.html
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file and play it back in Flash. I ran into some trouble when I
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from the publish settings dialog. This resulted in the html and swf
files being created. I next opened the html file to attempt to view
the video stream. The Flash Media Encoder is running and streaming
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Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation." It said the swf
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allow the application to communicate with the Internet. When I
clicked on it the settings manager did not open as expected but a
dialog stating that an ActionScript error has occurred. It says
Security Error #2028.
What this ended up meaning was that I had to add the swf file
to the trusted list in the settings manager.
Because my browser was blocking popups I was unable to see
the settings manager to be able to address the
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settings manager dialog. In the settings manager dialog I was
able to add the swf as a trusted file. When I did this it
immediately worked.
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second and a half. I don't have any ideas yet on why this is. Maybe
this will go away when the encoder is removed. I need to be able to
have the client programs connect and publish directly without
having to run an encoder on each client site. Does anyone know if
this will fix the lag problem or if there is something else I could
do to fix it?

Hey freinds,
This can be done using RTSP protocol. Basically its streaming video from rstp server and/or http server. Any ideas, suggestions for that.
Give me some helpline guideline to work on it.
Looking ahead for your responses.
Edited by: TruptiD on Jul 28, 2010 3:46 AM

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Hello
I need your help to understand how streaming over http works
In our company we have about 600 users who will be able to view streaming video over http hosted in Internet
We have 100 Mbps Internet link . What can we expect to happen in the network when there is contention for resources to access video on our network which delivers best effort service for video
We have enough bandwidth 4 gigs in local area network to core , so there's no real bandwidth cruch
How to differentiate or monitor bandwidth used for http streaming as against http normal traffic
Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPad App

One step closer:
Changed the crossdomain.xml file (more permissive settings).
Changed the encoding on FMLE to vp6. Working somewhat (don't know what I did to make it start streaming through hds).
But at least now I can get the individual streams in the set manifest file to work:
http://localhost/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/livevent/livestream1.f4m
http://localhost/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/livevent/livestream2.f4m
http://localhost/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/livevent/livestream3.f4m
BUT when I try to play the streams through the set manifest file from http://localhost/liveevent.f4m I'm getting the following error:
"The F4m document contains errors URL missing from Media tag." I'll search the forums to see if anyone else has come across this problem.
I used the f4m config tool to make the file. These are the file's contents:
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<baseURL>http://localhost/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/</baseURL>
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