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HTTP streaming buffer progress bar like YouTube

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Posted: Wed, 2008-02-06 06:09 bk
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'will' you are wrong. youtube do use streaming that's why they've recently invested in the ripcode's streaming hardware.

you are also wrong about download rates. when you stream via rtmp you only download/pay for the portion of the video that you watch, scrubbing backwards and forwards makes negligible difference. becuase when you arrive at your destination point it does not download the rest of the video, it only downloads what you actually watch.

the opposite is true with progressive download, you may only watch 30seconds of a ten minute video, but download the whole file during that time.

therefore you use far less bandwidth with rtmp streaming servers than when using progressive download as most people do not watch the whole of the file they click play on.

Posted: Wed, 2008-02-06 06:23 SERVER  
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sorry bk, you don't know what you are talking about. YouTube uses lighttpd, you can see it in their headers.

Every RTMP streaming server that I have ever connected to downloads the whole video and re-downloads the whole video and re-downloads the whole video.

[B]HAVE YOU EVER TESTED ANY OF THIS?[/B] I seriously doubt it, or you wouldn't be spouting such BS!

Posted: Wed, 2008-02-06 06:54 YouTube  
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bk,

Perhaps you should read this thread:[url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=8715]STREAMING AND (VERY) INEFFICIENT BANDWIDTH USAGE[/url] then maybe you will understand how things REALLY work.

Posted: Wed, 2008-02-06 11:32 YouTube  
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bk,

By the way, the RipCode hardware is for transcoding NOT serving.

See the press release here: [url=http://www.ripcode.com/newsRelease.php?id=11]On2 Technologies and RipCode Deliver Advanced 2-Pass Appliance-based Encoding[/url]

Notice that press release uses the word 'Encoding?

Posted: Fri, 2008-02-08 09:57 streamBabie  
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bk,

Maybe babie, you should check the lighttpd site here: [url=http://www.lighttpd.net/]lighttpd[/url]

Right on the front page, we have this:

"lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. Its high speed io-infrastructure allows them to scale several times better with the same hardware than with alternative web-servers."

(emphasis added)

Posted: Fri, 2008-05-30 14:57 val  
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here we go

maybe it's crazy or completely insane my question but i am going with it.

my plan was to build a small website like you tube with my own player

i follow example on www.gotoandplay.com and i customize the player to respond to my own

i upload and convert avi files using ffmpeg and php
i stock my video in my databse etc...

what i want is to send the name of the video to my flash.swf to play
how do i do that what is the best way sendandload var or directly pass the variable to embed.

and secondly what is the thing about xmoov.ph and all bandwith thing what doesit do cuz in the tutorial i don't really see those thing or maybe i am completely out of bounds and i should give up my project cuz i am still searching for a solution

i just have some lil knoledge in both flash and php but i need ot understand better here's my main mr_malice23@hotmail.com please contact me

Posted: Fri, 2008-05-30 14:59 val  
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i forget to mention also i was following also the tutorial of flashcomguru.com and i don't understand why xmoov.php thing why it;s there and also how can i just pass the name of the flv directly to flash by php

Posted: Thu, 2008-10-09 23:48 Rocks  
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Hello everyone!!

I have a php/mysql video site which needs a visual/percentage progress bar. Currently my site uploads videos of any format and converts to .flv and plays through flash player. All I need is the progress bar.

Rocks

Posted: Thu, 2009-07-16 07:02 mary  
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all iwant is a video that doesnt stop and go im hoping
you guys can solve my problem iwould really apprecite it.thank you.

Posted: Wed, 2009-07-29 22:05 Greg  
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Mary,

You can either use Flash, and configure it to buffer (just google it) the video for x seconds, or percent, so that you have to wait before it plays, or you need to have a small enough video that it can play smoothly over the existing connection.

A 56k modem can handle ~20Meg per hour, so if you know how big your connection is, and how big the file is, you can do the maths..

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