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Hey guys, i have a quick question about video streaming, here is the details:

 

my buddy is starting an online series

 

he asked me to make him a website that can stream the video with out the help of youtube,

 

he wants the quality to be good and the speed to be fast, i just wanted to know if any one had any suggestions for what kind of file type to use. right now as a divx its 130 meg (which is BIG!!) and we plan on using the <emded> tag to get it to stream. we dont have the funding for a detacted server with flash or qt streaming server installed. how ever the hoesting we have now has no limmits on overall bandwidth.

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You want to use .flv video, as it is cross browser, cross platform compatible, and 98% of users have it installed on their computers. No other format comes close to that kind of market penetration.

 

When you use it, you will want to use swfobject to embed the video into the page. SWF object is easy to use, and allows for alternate content when the user has scripts blocked on their computer. This way you can have messages that say 'javascript is required to view this video'  in such a case.

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