Video streaming

[David G. Mackay]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 13:59 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> 
> > Darwin Streaming Server
> > http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html
> > I've heard it mentioned frequently but have no personal experience
> > It's Apple but it's open source, it does Quicktime and and mpeg-4. If the OP 
> > must stream avi/Xvid, this is not going to work for him, but, if he's not 
> > wedded to avi/Xvid, this bears a closer look
> 
> My understanding is that during the battle between the streaming
> proprietaryware over the last decade there was one very clear winner:
> flash / .flv.
> 
> If you can transcode your source to .flv, the vast bulk of viewers will
> be able to eat it with their browser without additional installation of
> anything other than the flash they already have.

Is there any reason that the media files can't be made available via
samba or nfs, and played on the client machines via vlc, or whatever is
available to the client?

Dave