streaming video

[retseloj]

i want to provide streaming video live on my website. How do i accomplish this? how will it affect my bandwidth? my file transfer? will it use up my limits? the quality of the video, does it rely on the equipment or the file transfer?

thanks in advance!

[stevel]

PowWeb doesn't run streaming servers. You can offer via http a video file, but you'll lose some of the advantages you'd get with a real streaming server. It will definitely use your bandwidth allotment. The quality of the transfer is entirely dependent on what you put into the file.

[Rick_E]

Check out this thread
http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20167&highlight=streaming+video

and also search these forums for "streaming video". You'll find lots of information.

Basically you convert your video to one of the streaming formats using an encoder then place a link to the encoded file on one of your web pages, or embed the player in one of your web pages.

You can calculate the bandwidth requirements: If you have a one megabyte file that 100 people view you use up 100 megabytes of transfer.

If you create a higher quality video it makes a larger file, and the user needs a higher bandwidth internet connection to view it (DSL or Cable). For dialup users you need to prepare a video at about 30K bits per second. This equates to a 320x240 size at about five frames per second. If you use a smaller size you get more frames per second.

See this message thread for encoding information.
http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17640&highlight=windows+media+encoder