Streaming .avi and MPEG files

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It's becoming embarassing

"MacOS X comes with a streaming server capable of handling all
the major formats so if this is something you don't do a lot of,
get an older Mac with lots of RAM and you'll soon be in
business."

No Quicktime Streaming Server (available with Mac OS X Server)
supports streaming of Quicktime files including MPEG-4 data
streams (because MPEG-4 choose the Quicktime data format for
its file format).

Read about it here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/

An open source version, Darwin Streaming Server, is ported to
most *nix platforms. Read about it here:

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

Neither tools is suitable for streaming avi or MPEG (1 or 2) files.

Why anyone would use avi is beyond me, but a number of
options exist for streaming MPEG 1-2 files including the
www.videolan.org project, or programmatically using the
LiveMedia LGPL libraries (http://www.live.com/liveMedia/).

Research people, research!

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 10/04/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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