Wed 26 Apr 2006
WebHosting UK supports “Http Streaming”. Below is step by step information to make http streaming work on your account :-
After you encode your media files, there are 2 more steps in preparing your content for streaming from a Web server. creating Windows Media metafiles with .wax, .asx or .wvx, file name extension and adding tags to your HTML files. The HTML tag points the end user’s browser to the metafile, which points Windows Media Player to the contents of Windows Media file. A metafile must be used to reference the media because a direct reference to the media in an HTML tag will cause most browsers to attempt to download the media rather than stream it.
To create a Windows Media metafile you will need to Open a text editor, such as Microsoft Notepad. Type the following metafile script, replacing the URL with that of your media. Reference the media file just as you would in any other Web file.
Code:-
http://yourdomain/Path/YourFile.wmv” />
You can place the metafile in the same folder as that of your media. If you do so, you can specify relative path, which is simply the name of the file. The REF line would look like this:
Code:-
Save the text file using the name of your media file followed by the .wvx extension if the metafile points to a file with a .wmv extension, or .wax if the metafile points to a file with a .wma extension, such as YourFile.wvx. The file name extension .asx was used in previous versions of Windows Media Technologies. To add a tag to an HTML file Using a text editor such as Microsoft Notepad, open the Web page that you want to add the reference to the media to. Add the URL of the metafile. For example:
Code:-
Play this Windows Media file: http://yourdomain.com/Path/YourFile.wvx”> YourFile
Copy the Windows Media files (with .wma, .wax, .wmv, and .wvx file name extensions) to your Web server using a FTP client. When an end user clicks the reference on the Web page, the metafile is downloaded and Windows Media Player opens. Windows Media Player opens the metafile, and then opens and plays the Windows Media file from your Web server.
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June 8th, 2006 at 11:11 am
I think Microsoft Windows Media is the most popular and supported streaming media format for broadcasting videos from a website.