We are in the process of moving to flash streaming. We use it in a limited way so far on a flash history project (Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution, http://www.jwa.org/feminism/ that launched a year ago, and it has simply worked well for that exhibit.) It has been used very successfully by the Massachusetts Medical Society who customized players with their logo and (in the case of the training videos, with considerable look and feel add-ins) for everything from audio interviews to training videos. I am less concerned about flash for video, but the idea of serving audio with WMV or Real or QuickTime, with the plethora of distracting ads (and in WMV's case, those backgrounds) all, entirely out of our control, is a significant bit of stupidity we hope to now avoid.
With real, wmv, or mov, we have used Real's Helix server and Apple's Darwin server. Those were fine and actually offered some nice benefits. I am not sure what load the flash-served audio (mp3) or video (flv) will put on our generally-not-overwhelmed servers. Word is that we'll be fine. ari On 3/1/07, Christina DePaolo <Christinad at seattleartmuseum.org> wrote: > > Hi MCN l-serve, > > I have a question for web folks out there. I would like to know who uses > flash as a standard to serve up audio and video within html or database > driven web pages. If you do, do you stream the files? And how many files > do you serve up - are there bandwidth or performance issues? > > > > I would like to know who in our community uses flash for serving media > and what configuration/set up works for you. > > > > I appreciate any information you can share. Thank you. > > > > Christina DePaolo > > New Media Manager > > 1109 First Avenue, Suite 406 > > P 206.654.3165 > > F 206.654.3250 > > seattleartmuseum.org <http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >
