[stewart c]

hello
I would like to put a 3 min video clip on a web site.
I was entending to do this using quick time, so what file size should I be looking at. at the moment Ive got tohe clip to about 15Mb but then I was asked why quick time??

now hears where my confusion starts...
manny people have surgested using flash, I havent got flash so this isent an option.

then I was told to stream it, but I thort Id need a streaming sever and there expensive also I want people tobe able to download the clip.

then I had the suregstion of streaming it from my own computer. If I wanted to try streaming it from my own computer what would I need to do?. I expect I would need sever softwaer? if sowhat typeand howmuch dose it cost?

any way thank you for any advice or help
stewart

[eyal_p]

you haven't told us what the size of your video, but anyway i suggest using windows media video insted of quicktime if you want to stream it, and if you want only people to download it then i'll suggest you encode it with divx (www.divx.com), for the stream you need an hosting site that support's streams, i dont know if there are such kind that are free, but i'll suggest you to search a bit to find out....if by any chance (probably not...) your video is related to european basketball then i'll be happy to host it on my site... (http://www.24sec.net).

I hope i helped a bit

[stewart c]

hi
thanks for the post.
Im not sure what you mean by the size of the video? its just over 3 mins long and at the moment its about 15Mb

some one has surgested setting up my own pc as a server using apache, how ever I have no server knollage

sadly the clip isent a basketball clips its arap video.
thanks

[Elvandil]

The Darwin Streaming Server for Quicktime is free:

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/

Here is a comparison of a web server and a streaming server:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...treamserv.aspx

There are really no special requiremants for streaming compared to ordinary downloads, so all you need do is to make the video available for download from your computer in streaming format. You can get the Windows Media Streaming Encoder free:

http://depts.washington.edu/trio/com...o/stream.shtml

[eyal_p]

Originally Posted by stewart c

hi
thanks for the post.
Im not sure what you mean by the size of the video? its just over 3 mins long and at the moment its about 15Mb

some one has surgested setting up my own pc as a server using apache, how ever I have no server knollage

sadly the clip isent a basketball clips its arap video.
thanks

I ment the size of the movie on pixles, for exemple width=320px, height=240px,
Anyway i suggest you wont use your own pc as a server cause it's not that safe and you need to keep your pc running and connected to the internet as long that you want people to download your movie.
(but if you want to do it....you can make your own http server on your pc quite easy if you have WinXp...but i'll suggest you wont do this....if you still want to do it then ask me and i'll tell you how...)

BTW like Elvandil wrote i dont really think that you need a streaming server or something when you usind windows media...so just encode your movie as wmv and put it on your site, you can use that annoying program of microsoft called "Windows Movie Maker", you probably can find it on the
Start menu>Accesories>Windows Movie Maker if your using win98 and higher (what i hope you are )

[stewart c]

hello
thanks for all the replys and info..
I will add the video to the site as a download like youve surgested but I would still really like to no how to make a sever out of my pc. I would like to get/use an old pc and have a go at making the sever out of it. can you give me some advice or post a web link so I can lern how to do this?.
thank you for your help and time
stewart

[eyal_p]

Install WinXp, go to control panel>add or remove programs>add remove windows components, mark the checkbox of "internet information services(IIS)" , make sure everything is marked inside of it by double clicking it and then click "next" and install it.

then everything you put in your www root directory that you will configure (by deafult i think it's c:\Inetpub\wwwroot) will be able to view from the web by:
http://your ip address/the name of the file



Make sure that you dont have firewall or you connected via a firewall router/hub cause it can couse problem (make sure that the WinXp firewall is disabled also)...

[stewart c]

hi
thanks for the info. just a few questions!
1 I followed your mthod but I dont have "internet information services(IIS)" Im using xp home is this why?
2 is there any way I can do this with the fire wall and on the d drive insted of the c drive?
3 how do I find my ip address?

thanks

[eyal_p]

i dont know why, maybe it's really bacause it's winxp home...
you can put it where ever you want, when you install it it i think it should ask you where you want it to be, the c:\inetpub\ is only the deafualt one...