Streaming question... (non flash)

[SureShot]

Does anyone here know of a way to get windows media or quicktime for that matter, to stream properly over the web? The only thing I have been able to find is that you need a streaming server with the proper software installed to make full use of the great streaming available with windows media format.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? The reason I ask is we do a monthly webcast here at work for a very large client and right now we use flash with a very extensive pre-loader. The movies are cut up into several pieces and they all pre-load as you are watching the webcast. Our problem is, we can't really get THAT great of quality out of it without making the files huge. I know with some exparament's we have done here at work with Windows Media, you can get very nice quality at a much smaller size than that of flash.

Any suggestions? 8-]

[thoriphes]

i used to have a webcam page up a while ago. you can view the source code if you like:

http://webcam.thoriphes.com/

this worked with windows media player 9.

[porpous2]

winamp streams... it rocks... go download it at www.winamp.com (http://www.winamp.com) and then go to www.shoutcast.com (http://www.shoutcast.com) theres over 300 pages of radio stations with 20 radio stations per page... thats a lot ;)

[SureShot]

Porpous, I don't know if I was clear enough but we are doing a webcast that consists of MOVIES, not music.... full video. Thanks anyway though

And Mr Thoriphes thanks, I will have a look at it tommorrow.


Anyone else have any ideas?