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All seems so inconsistent.. Sometimes it woks some times it does not..

Ok, I am done testing. It seems that if you set a flash size other than the actual size of the flash video then it slows down or does not work some times! Steve, you might make a note of that.

Also, its ok to delete this thread.

The start stream button works, now so dial up user will not have troubles with wasted bandwidth when viewing any flash videos of my fish that I may put up. It will not start the stream until you press the play button, and the flash player is 4K bytes now..

Anyone want the source .fla file for the player?

Neat stuff!!

Can you get it to stream from a webcam?

That fish on the right certainly has a lot to say!

so Dan, can you give us instructions on how to do it too please? Axl took a good vid of the yesterday

dan, make up a thread in the useful info section with an upload or link to the player and instructions.

i will lock it and sticky it for you once done.

Steve

If you already get the video in a .mpg format (MPEG), kindly, if possible, leave a link for that too beside the flash one.

(I can view the old mpg format easily here but not flash (linux here, and I like to use open software, that is, (almost) everything compiled from scratch.)

Just as a curious question - How do the sizes compare? For an mpg and the equivalent flash video.

I just like streaming video and they are much smaller than mpegs. Does linux have a .flv player?

I will make some changes to the source code to read a text file to get the url or the video file and also a stop button to stop the stream if you decide that you want to end the stream. This way everyone can use the player and not need to have flash 8 pro or higher to compile flash files. I will try to post it on a new thread in the useful info section as you suggested Steve.

The only thing I'm not sure about is if there is a free .flv video converter available.. I will check into it when I get back to work.

Thanks Dan - would be a cool addition to any webpage - Live AP Cam

Ok, I think that this should be kept simple. You will need an encoder ect so here is a program that will encode for streaming video and produce a flash swf streaming player. Encoded you video and upload both the swf player and the flv video file to where you host your files. Next, use the flash button in insert the video enter the size of the video file after the = sign. Enter the SWF player file only as the url. It will look something like this:
[flash=][/flash] {flash=200,300}http://MyURL.com/mySwfPlayer.swf{/flash}

ALWAYS set the frame rate to no more than 15 for streaming web video!
You want the video to be as small as possible, so set audio rate lower and use mono, not stereo.

Here is program that you need to use to convert your videos and have a streaming player:
http://rapidshare.com/files/126342317/f ... r.zip.html

I suggest you buy the program if you find it useful!

Final test using commercial player...

I think the commercial player preloads before pressing play.. Can anyone confirm that?