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Re: [L-OT] QT streaming?

2006-12-19 by Trevor Gilchrist

That's very interesting Bill, thank you. And I get to learn about  
CDBaby.com, which had passed me by...

Gotta love it :-)

Many thanks,
Trevor Gilchrist
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On Dec 18, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Bill Canty wrote:

> 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 �
>> 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
>
>
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