Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
Great news you guys don't have to pay for your Dreamhost account as a non-profit. Stephan did you get your 4-5 megabyte movies to appear? Yes, by checking for existence of the movie first in a folder in 'Documents' then downloading the video before viewing if it's not there. My app uses hie

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-03 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK it seems unbeknownst to me two others on the team had already gotten the Dreahost account... (talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing!) which is good because setting up QT server on Fedora Core 3 doesn't seem to be a smart thing to try to do. (Fedora Core 4 and up... i

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-02 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard and all, We've taken perhaps 100 25-50 MB quicktime movies (all at 450 x 340, full color, 30 fps) please don't forget that you can even save some MBs if you encode your moves with only 25 or 24 fps, if possible, maybe even lower rates, let your eyes decide. 30 fps is what the U

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Miller
We've taken perhaps 100 25-50 MB quicktime movies (all at 450 x 340, full color, 30 fps) and compressed them down to typically 3-6 MB each using Quicktime Pro's mpeg-4 compressor with relatively little degradation. These have then been put into an account at Streamhoster.com. We've found th

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-01 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: >>> I'm talking here about some serious data: >>> 100 plus megabyte movies at 320 X 240 >> >> Perhaps you could try breaking down your media into smaller chunks. 100MB >> seems relatively large for most non-corporate users. > > We've done that in the past with aud

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
Swami, (I hope that's a respectful nickname) I understand that the Darwin Streaming Server is the same code that runs Quicktime streaming server, and it works well. I'm sure it's exactly what is running at Dreamhost, as they are major users of Open Source. I didn't know you had such a ro

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: [snip] I'm talking here about some serious data: 100 plus megabyte movies at 320 X 240 Perhaps you could try breaking down your media into smaller chunks. 100MB seems relatively large for most non-corporate users. Scott: good thought.. W

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
Actually getting another Dream Host account is on our road map. At least for someone else on the team... My experience has been that no matter how inexpensive a new site is or how good the support may be, every new "business" relationship, alternate box, server site, adds more admin overhead tha

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
All insights welcome I don't see any solution on the horizon for our "Rich Media" delivery troubles where we are not able to get either a Revolution player OR a web browser with QT plug Whoa, all this time I thought you WERE using QT streaming server. One thing I might suggest - try getting

Re: OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-01 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: > I don't see any solution on the horizon for our "Rich Media" delivery > troubles where > we are not able to get either a Revolution player OR a web browser with > QT plug installed, to > consistently "pick up" on the Fast Start Header and begin displaying > frames

OT: Quicktime Streaming Server on LInux

2007-02-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
All insights welcome I don't see any solution on the horizon for our "Rich Media" delivery troubles where we are not able to get either a Revolution player OR a web browser with QT plug installed, to consistently "pick up" on the Fast Start Header and begin displaying frames as soon as enough