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Trevor Gilchrist wrote:

> Does anyone know where I might go to learn the best way to stream 
> video content and audio from my web page? I've been building 
> self-promo pages for a while, but can't find info on how do do 
> this in the most efficient way. Right now, I just post a QT video 
> and everyone has to sit and wait for it to load before it plays \ufffd 
> and it's never very top quality.
> 
> When I visit Apple's QT site, I can click on an HD movie trailer 
> and it's playing at 'full'-res within seconds. Probably H.264 etc. 
> and I have all the compression tools, but I need to know about 
> streaming servers and hosts and all that nonsense. 
> 
> If anyone has any ideas or links or forums, I'd be very grateful.

Dunno 'bout video, but I know how streaming audio files are done, so 
maybe video's done the same way...?

Instead of a link directly to an mp3 file you link to a .m3u file, which 
is simply a text file with the complete link to the actual mp3 file. You 
can even have links to several mp3 files, each on a separate line. 
Realaudio works the same way, except with different file extensions.

The streaming mp3's at http://www.cdbaby.com/ are done this way.

HTH,  Bill