Progressive Downloading
This is a step up from hyperlinking to your video files. It is a temporary solution to the problems mentioned for downloading. The video file is embedded with code that is unique to each type of video, and as soon as enough of the video is downloaded to watch, the video will begin to play. If the user’s connection is fast enough, they can watch the video as it downloads. The disadvantage here is that the viewer cannot skip forward to any part of the video. This solution does not require any special software or streaming server to work.

True Streaming
This is the best way to deliver video to viewers if you want to allow the viewer to instantly skip to any part of the video or if you want to prevent the viewer from downloading the video file to their computer. True streaming works by delivering bits of video through a streaming server, which sends packets of data in real-time, effectively allowing the end user to view the data as it is arriving. This process is not possible with the HTTP protocol. Instead, RTSP is the protocol of choice for streaming media. It stands for real-time streaming protocol, and it is a method of routing video data to the end user. RTSP provides “VCR-style” control functionality such as pause, fast forward, reverse, and absolute positioning, which cannot be achieved with HTTP.

Which method should I use?
If you are serious about your videos, true streaming is the best option for delivering media to a global audience. With instant-access, built in download prevention, VCR style controls, and affordability, there’s never been a better time to start delivering streaming media to your audience. With GravityLab Multimedia, you can have the best of both worlds. We provide methods to access your streaming media via HTTP and RTSP, allowing you to choose which method is best for you. Check out our streaming video hosting plans
to see which plan best fits your needs.

Quicktime Mov
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample_100kbit.mov
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample_300kbit.mov

Quicktime Mp4
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample_100kbit.mp4
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample_300kbit.mp4

Quicktime H.264
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample_h264_100kbit.mp4
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample_h264_1mbit.mp4

Mobile 3GP
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample.3gp
http://helix.gravlab.com:554/sample_50kbit.3gp

Windows Media
http://media.gravlab.com/powered.wmv
http://media.gravlab.com/racecar.wmv

“Microsoft^® Expression^® Encoder, a feature of Expression Media, offers encoding, enhancement, and publishing of rich media experiences to Microsoft Silverlight. “

Features Include:

Better Encoding

VC-1 advanced authoring SDK integration: by adopting the new VC-1 authoring SDK, Expression Encoder 2 is able to author better quality video faster. We’ve exposed a set of presets for tuning the encoder as well as detailed settings with comprehensive tooltips for the advanced compressionist.

New profiles, and video codecs for streaming media: Encoder 2 supports a number of new modes and codecs including Quality VBR, WMA Pro (stereo), WMA Lossless, 24 bit audio and audio/video encoding stream selection.

• Improved MPEG source support: We now include an MPEG 2 decoder in the product to give a consistent story across platforms. The decoder we ship supports transport streams (so you are able to work with sources that originated from HDV cameras. Seeking performance and accuracy has been greatly improved.
• Better multi-core performance: we are not done with performance enhancements by any means but have made decent progress in Expression Encoder 2, particularly on multi-core systems.
• Improved aspect ratio handling: by default, the new Profile Adaptive mode is selected which preserves the width specified in the profile but varies the height according to the aspect ratio of the source. Translation: it just works. Additionally, when Source compression is used the aspect ratio mode as well as pixel aspect settings are fixed up to ensure source compression will just work.
• Pre-processing enhancements: the new Pre-processing palette contains a number of settings for controlling resizing (Bicubic, Lanczos, Supersampling in addition to nearest neighbor and bilinear), de-interlacing and audio options. As well as detecting the need to de-interlace from the header of the file, the user can manually override the defaults. In addition to the V1 capabilities, Expression Encoder 2 includes inverse telecine as well as a new pixel-adaptive de-interlacer. On the audio side, there is a volume leveling filter as well as a volume control.

Better Silverlight Interactive experiences

The second bucket of functionality covers improvements to Silverlight output.

• New templates: We’ve revisited both the functionality and the design of our core Silverlight Templates. As before these support core functionality such as Chapter points and close captioning and are user extensible.
• Template Parameters: We have had a lot of requests for more and easier control of how templates behave. Examples include not automatically playing (or buffering) the video, being able to control the background color of the HTML and more. In Expression Encoder 2 we’ve added parameters to templates. The parameter system is extensible enabling developers to easily expose custom things e.g. skin primary color etc.

Download Expression Encoder for Microsoft Silverlight

1. In a text editor such as Notepad, add the following basic code while substituting the example server, paths, and file names with the appropriate information:
   
<ASX version = “3.0″>
<TITLE>Sample Demo</TITLE>
<BANNER HREF=”http://WebServerName/Images/Banner.bmp”>
<ABSTRACT>Learn more about our company</ABSTRACT>
<MOREINFO HREF=”http://WebServerName.com”/>
</BANNER>
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF=”mms://ServerName/PublishingPointName/Video.wmv”/>
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

   In the previous code, the HREF attribute of the BANNER element has the value http://WebServerName/Images/Banner.bmp that refers to a banner image (194 pixels wide by 32 pixels high) that is stored on a Web server. The text contained in the ABSTRACT element displays as a ToolTip when the user hovers over the banner graphic. Finally, when a user clicks the banner graphic, the URL provided in the MOREINFO element opens in a Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer. In this example, one digital media file named Video.wmv, which is stored on a computer running Windows Media Services, plays back in the Player.

2. On the File menu, click Save, type a file name, type .wvx as the file name extension, and then click Save.
3. Copy the Windows Media metafile with the .wvx file name extension to your Web server.
4. In a Web page, provide a link to the Windows Media metafile.

Unfortunately, the current version of the iPhone does not support 3rd generation phone features such as higher data transfer rates that allow true streaming video to be viewed on compatible mobile phones. The good news is that a 3G version of the iPhone is in development, and is supposed to be available sometime in 2008. But for now, the iPhone is a device that downloads video only. If you want a viewer to see your video on their iPhone, they have to download it from their computer and load it onto the iPhone through iTunes.

If you do want to encode video for the iPhone, here are the requirements:

1) Codec must be MPEG-4 or H.264
2) Resolution can be up to 720×480 (but its actual display resolution is 480×320)
3) Frame-rate: 24fps

That’s it!

1. Go to http://members.gravlab.com/
2. Enter your e-mail address for the login name
3. Your password should be the same as the password you use to upload files
4. Use the menu bar to navigate the different features.
5. When you are finished, log out

And as always, if you have any additional questions about our new billing system, contact support@gravlab.com

In this update there are a few key areas that have impacted the way sites rank and how an SEO (or a business owner optimizing their own site) needs to approach and address the various components. The key areas that have been affected with this update are:

• The history of your web pages
• The way backlinks are counted
• Site content & structure

(more…)

For this tutorial you will need a short clip of uncompressed video, including audio. You will also need Apple QuickTime Pro. You can buy a QuickTime Pro serial directly from Apple. Entering the serial number into the QuickTime player activates additional features in the software, including the ability to encode video to a variety of formats. See the “Buy QuickTime Pro…” option under the QuickTime player’s Help menu.
Once it is installed and running:

1. Load the uncompressed video clip using the player File > Open File… menu option.

2. Click on the File > Export… menu option.

3. Under the Export option choose “Movie to MPEG-4″, then click on the “Options…” button beside the Export drop down menu. (If your cell phone only plays .3gp video files, choose the 3G menu option instead of the MPEG-4 option.)

The key options are “File Format” and “Image Size.”

4. Choose MP4(ISMA) as the file format option. Although you probably will not know if your mobile phone is ISMA (a standards organization) compliant, try encoding with this option. If your device fails to play the file, try encoding with plain vanilla MP4.

5. Set the image size to the video resolution of your cell phone. If you choose the wrong size, your video may play and you will hear sound but it will have no image.

6. Select the Audio codec by clicking on the drop down menu at the top of the screen and choosing “Audio.”

7. Set the audio options to the following:

8. Upload the file to your cell phone and try to play it.

If your phone chokes on the video file, load the uncompressed file back into QuickTime Pro and try different settings to optimize the file size of the video.

Typically, in any given streaming setup, there are two computers. One is the server, which requires either DSS or QTSS, and the other is the broadcaster, which requires Quicktime Broadcaster (Mac OS X only). The server can be either Windows or Mac, but the broadcaster must be a mac. For more detailed instructions on installing DSS on a Windows machine, follow these instructions. For Mac users, continue following these instructions:

1. Download DSS
2. Download QuickTime Broadcaster
3. Make sure you have Apache Web Server installed.
4. Obtain the URL from QuickTime Broadcaster.
5. Post it on a website on your Apache Web Server.

The installation is a breeze, and there is virtually no configuration whatsoever. You might only want to open a couple of ports, and then you’ll manage everything from QuickTime Broadcaster. You’ll be able to stream from your webcam, or just transmit a file from your HDD.

That’s it. In no time, you’ll be using the same solution that YouTube Mobile uses to transfer videos in 3GP.

Often times, companies that wish to stream their media are given video from a production company on a DVD. This is a great multi-purpose archival format, because the disc is high capacity, and therefore can store high-quality video. Until recently, DVD video was difficult to extract and convert into video files. If you’ve ever looked inside the DVD on your computer, you would have noticed all sorts of VOB, IFO, and BUP files. This is a confusing mess of files, and it takes specialized software to convert this data into streaming video.

One way to convert the audio and video on a DVD to WMV format is to capture the content using an analog capture device. You can connect the audio and video analog outputs of a DVD player to a video capture card on your computer, and then use Windows Media Encoder to encode the video to a file. But this requires a video capture card, and is a subject for another time.

If you want to convert digitally, you have a plethora of DVD extraction utilities for both Windows and Mac users.

Windows users:
DVDx, available on SourceForge.net. This program is able to convert DVDs directly to Windows Media Format, as well as AVI, MPEG. and WM9.

Once you have created an AVI or WMV file from the DVD, you can use the free Windows Media Encoder
to prepare the file for web streaming.

To configure Windows Media Encoder 9 Series to encode a file

1. On the toolbar, click New Session. The New Session Wizard starts.
2. On the Wizard tab, click Convert a file.
3. On the File Selection screen, type both the file that you want to convert (the source file) and the file that you want to create (the output file).
4. On the Content Distribution screen, click Web server (progressive download). When you click Web server (progressive download), only those encoding options that pertain to encoding files for Web servers are displayed.
5. On the Encoding Options screen, select how you want to encode your audio and video from the lists, and then click to select the appropriate bit rate check box.
6. On the next two screens, type display information and review your settings.
7. After you quit the wizard, click Start Encoding.

Now the video should be ready to upload to your account!

Mac Users:
Check out this list of video software for OS X: http://www.pure-mac.com/video.html

1. Insert the DVD into your computer
2. Extract the video from the disk using Cinematize. This highly recommended program extracts DVD into Quicktime DV format which can then easily be encoded into a streaming file
3. Use one of the following to export your video:
   • For best results, use Apple’s Compressor (bundled with Final Cut Studio). Its algorithms produce high-quality, low-filesize video in Quicktime and Windows Media format
   • Quicktime Pro is a low-cost option for converting videos, but filesize is typically larger and quality isn’t as top-notch. But it does the job. From the menu bar, choose File > Export, then on the Export drop-down menu, select “Movie to Quicktime Movie”, then for the drop-down below that, (Use:) select “Streaming - Medium”.
   • Quicktime Pro for .wmv files: You will need a plug-in called Flip4Mac. Then export video using Quicktime Pro’s “Movie to Windows Media” option.
   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/12/05/converting-dvd-to-streaming-video/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/02/bit-rate-requirements-of-common-connection-speeds/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/02/bit-rate-requirements-of-common-connection-speeds/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:40:02 +0000 modcam http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/02/bit-rate-requirements-of-common-connection-speeds/ When streaming media over the web, it is important to take into consideration the speed at which your viewers are connecting to the internet. Listed below are several common connection speeds and the corresponding bit-rate at which your videos will need to be encoded in order to play back smoothly. Bit-rates are listed in Kilobits (1000 bits = 125 bytes)
   
   

   Bit-rate	Connection Speed	File Size Per Minute of Video
   21 Kbits/sec.	28.8 modem users	160 KB
   37 Kbits/sec.	56K modem users	280 KB
   80-100 Kbits/sec.	ISDN	600-750KB
   150-200 Kbits/sec.	High Speed ISDN	1.13 MB
   250 Kbits/sec.	DSL, cable modem, satellite dish	1.88 MB
   300 Kbits/sec.	DSL, cable modem, satellite dish	2.25 MB
   500 Kbits/sec.	Fast cable modem	3.75 MB

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/02/bit-rate-requirements-of-common-connection-speeds/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/01/how-to-tell-if-video-can-be-streamed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/01/how-to-tell-if-video-can-be-streamed/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:07:40 +0000 modcam http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/01/how-to-tell-if-video-can-be-streamed/ All files that are to be streamed must be hinted for streaming. This is made possible by the hint track, which is a small piece of data inside a streaming movie file. Our streaming servers recognize the hint track and use it to guide the streaming process. The hint track is never sent to the viewer, it always resides on the server.

   Hinting your movies is essential for streaming media hosting, because without a hint track, the viewer will see an error instead of video.

   Quicktime Pro provides the ability to check for hint tracks in a video. Simply open the video qith Quicktime Pro, and select Window > Show Movie Properties. If there is a hint track, you will see the words “Hint Track” under the Name column.

   If there is no hint track, contact us and we would be glad to help you prepare your media for online delivery.

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/11/01/how-to-tell-if-video-can-be-streamed/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/10/10/multiple-bitrate-video-streaming/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/10/10/multiple-bitrate-video-streaming/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:15:13 +0000 modcam http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/10/10/multiple-bitrate-video-streaming/ In order to provide the best quality video possible to the widest range of viewers, it is necessary to tailor the bit rate of the video to match the download speed of the client’s connection. This is possible to do with Windows Media Server, Real Producer and Quicktime.

   The most difficult task of streaming audio and video over a network is maintaining a continuous presentation to the user in a highly changeable environment. Buffering is the biggest problem of streaming digital media. It is caused when the client runs out of data in memory, called the buffer, and must wait for more to arrive. The client will always run out of data if the bit rate of the incoming stream exceeds the current available bandwidth.

   Unpredictability of bandwidth is taken for granted on the Internet. For example, just because a user connects to an ISP at 56 Kbps does not mean there is 56 Kbps of bandwidth available to the user at all times. The actual bandwidth at any given point is determined by network conditions and traffic on the Internet, which is constantly fluctuating, causing bandwidth to drop to 18 Kbps one moment, and then increase to 40 Kbps the next. If a user attempts to view video being streamed at 50 Kbps, the presentation suffers considerably when bandwidth is squeezed.

   (more…)

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/10/10/multiple-bitrate-video-streaming/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/28/how-to-create-a-simulated-live-broadcast-with-windows-media-services/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/28/how-to-create-a-simulated-live-broadcast-with-windows-media-services/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:05:36 +0000 modcam http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/28/how-to-create-a-simulated-live-broadcast-with-windows-media-services/ This article details the steps needed to create a looping collection of videos with WMS. With this feature, a viewer can “tap” into whatever video happens to be playing at any given moment. GravityLab Multimedia provides this capability for users with all video streaming accounts.

   Steps to Set Up a Server-Side Play List

   1. Create Windows Media content and place it in the ASFROOT folder on the Windows Media Services server.
   2. Open the Windows Media Administrator.
   3. From the left side of the Administrator, select Unicast Publishing Points.
   4. In the Broadcast Unicast Publishing Points section, clear the use wizard option. Click Broadcast, and then choose New.
   5. For alias name, type a descriptive name.
   6. For the path type, choose Remote Windows Media Station, and for the URL use msbd://localhost/alias (where alias is the same name you used in the previous step). This provides the connection point for Windows Media Player clients.
   7. Next, on the left side of the administrator, choose Multicast Stations.
   8. Click Stations, and then choose New.
   9. Create a new station.
   10. Give the station the same name as in step 5, and select distribution only.
   11. Provide a descriptive program name. For the stream name, use the file name of the first file that you want to be in the playlist. Make sure that both the Start program once wizard is finished and Replay stream objects once finished (loop) options are selected.
   12. Select Advanced Streaming Format (.asf) file.
   13. Specify the unicast path to the file that you placed in the ASFROOT folder. This is typically mms://localhost/filename.asf.
   14. Once the wizard is finished, the program and stream should play.

   To Add Files (Streams) to the Playlist

   1. Open the Windows Media Administrator.
   2. From the left side of the administrator, select Multicast Stations.
   3. Select the program that contains the playlist that you want to modify and ensure that the program is stopped.
   4. Click Streams, and then choose New.
   5. For the name, it is best to use the file name of the file that you want to stream.
   6. On the Source/Destination tab, specify a unicast URL for the file that you that want to add. This is typically like ms://localhost/filename.asf.

   When you connect with a Windows Media Player client to the broadcast unicast publishing point, use the server name or IP address and the publishing point alias from step 5 in the first part of this section.

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/28/how-to-create-a-simulated-live-broadcast-with-windows-media-services/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/06/how-to-embed-windows-media-player-into-an-html-document/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/06/how-to-embed-windows-media-player-into-an-html-document/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:23:34 +0000 modcam http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/06/how-to-embed-windows-media-player-into-an-html-document/ To embed an object into an HTML document, the object class ID is required. The class ID for Windows Media Player 7, 9, 10 and 11 is clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6.

   Insert the following code into your HTML document to embed Windows Media Player 7 and later:

   <OBJECT id="VIDEO" width="320" height="240" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" type="application/x-oleobject"> <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="http://wms1.gravlab.com/youraccount/sample.wmv"> <PARAM NAME="SendPlayStateChangeEvents" VALUE="True"> <PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True"> <PARAM name="uiMode" value="none"> <PARAM name="PlayCount" value="9999"> </OBJECT>
   
   

   Parameter	Default	Description
   autoStart	true	Specifies or retrieves a value indicating whether the current media item begins playing automatically.
   balance	0	Specifies the current stereo balance. Values range from –100 to 100.
   baseURL		Specifies the base URL used for relative path resolution with URL script commands that are embedded in media items.
   captioningID	0	Specifies the name of the element displaying the captioning.
   currentMarker	0	Specifies the current marker number.
   currentPosition	0	Specifies the current position in the media item in seconds.
   defaultFrame	-	Specifies the name of the frame used to display a URL.
   enableContextMenu	true	Specifies a value indicating whether to enable the context menu, which appears when the right mouse button is clicked.
   enabled	false	Specifies whether the Windows Media Player control is enabled.
   fullScreen	false	Specifies whether video content is played back in full-screen mode.
   InvokeURLs	true	Specifies a value indicating whether URL events should launch a Web browser.
   Mute	false	Specifies if audio is muted.
   PlayCount	1	Specifies the number of times a media item will play. Minimum value of one.
   Rate	1.0	Specifies the playback rate. 0.5 equates to half the normal playback speed, 2 equates to twice.
   stretchToFit	false	Specifies whether video displayed by the control automatically sizes to fit the video window, when the video window is larger than the dimensions of the video image.
   uiMode	full	Specifies which controls are shown in the user interface. Possible values: invisible, none, mini, full.
   URL	-	Specifies the name of the media item to play. You can specify a local filename or a URL.
   Volume	Last setting	Zero specifies no volume and 100 specifies full volume.
   windowlessVideo	false	Specifies or retrieves a value indicating whether the Windows Media Player control renders video in windowless mode. When windowlessVideo is set to true, the Player control renders video directly in the client area, so you can apply special effects or layer the video with text. Supported by Windows Media Player for Windows XP or later.

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/09/06/how-to-embed-windows-media-player-into-an-html-document/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/08/15/play-a-quicktime-movie-outside-of-the-web-browser/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/08/15/play-a-quicktime-movie-outside-of-the-web-browser/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:22:33 +0000 modcam http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/08/15/play-a-quicktime-movie-outside-of-the-web-browser/ If you want to launch the standard Quicktime player outside of the web page, you need to create a reference movie — a tiny file that points to the URL of the real movie. Follow these steps to create a reference movie:

   1. Put your actual movie on our server.
   2. Open QuickTime Player on any computer with internet access
   3. Choose Open URL (File menu) and type in the URL of your movie
   4. Your movie should open. If it autoplays, stop it and rewind it to the beginning. Choose Save (not Save As). This creates a tiny reference movie that’s basically a wrapper around the URL of the actual movie.
   5. Quit. Change the file extension of the little reference movie from .mov to .qtl .
   6. Put the .qtl reference movie on your Web server and link to it from your Web page

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/08/15/play-a-quicktime-movie-outside-of-the-web-browser/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/can-videos-stream-over-the-http-protocol/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/can-videos-stream-over-the-http-protocol/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 04:17:37 +0000 support http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/can-videos-stream-over-the-http-protocol/ http: defines a port that normal web servers use to deliver content. Port 80, to be precise. Sometimes that content is .html, sometimes it is .jpg image files, sometimes it is mp3’s or video files. You want to know that your video is being served from a streaming server. At GravityLab, it is.

   Your multimedia, when pushed through mms://, rstp:// or http://via the 554 port protocol, is being pushed through Windows Media Services 9, Helix Universal, or Quicktime Streaming Server respectively. What http:// can, considering video MIME types with apache, is port 80. So if you link to video through http: but you specify the 554 port (ie:http://helix.gravlab.com:554/youraccount/yourfile.mov) http: loses all meaning in terms of defining a standard Port, because it is using the Quicktime Streaming Server 554 port.

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/can-videos-stream-over-the-http-protocol/feed/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/hinting-a-quicktime-movie-for-real-time-streaming/ http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/hinting-a-quicktime-movie-for-real-time-streaming/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 04:00:19 +0000 support http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/hinting-a-quicktime-movie-for-real-time-streaming/ To set up a movie for streaming over the Internet, compress the movie so that its data rate is appropriate for the bandwidth at which your users will connect. You can use the hinted streaming format with QuickTime Streaming Server or Darwin Streaming Server. The hint tracks, which are stored in the movie along with the video, audio, and other tracks, provide QuickTime Streaming Server software with information about the server, the transmission packet size, and the protocol to be used–in short, how to send the movie data over the network.

   When you choose hinted streaming, “hint tracks” (information needed to stream the movie) are added to the movie. If the movie is already in the desired format, you can prepare a movie for streaming by opening the movie in QuickTime Player and choosing Export from the File menu, then Movie to Hinted Movie. If you want to change the movie’s format, follow the steps below.

   Converting a movie for real-time streaming

   1. Open your movie in QuickTime Player.
   2. From the File menu, choose Export.
   3. From the Export pop-up menu, choose Movie to QuickTime Movie.
   4. Choose a streaming option from the Use pop-up menu.
   5. Click Options and select the “Prepare for Internet Streaming” checkbox.
   6. Choose Hinted Streaming from the pop-up menu and click OK.
   7. Click Save.
   8. Upload your video to your account
   9. Link to your video through QTSS via the 554 port using the instructions sent to your account

    

   If you want to stream a QuickTime movie using QuickTime Streaming Server, you should use a web-optimized video or audio compressor to compress the movie file. All QuickTime compressors are compatible with QuickTime Streaming Server, but the compressors listed below are optimized to give the best results for delivery over the Internet.

   For a complete list of QuickTime-supported compressors, see the Products area on the QuickTime website.

   Video compressors
   H.264, MPEG-4, Sorenson Video (any version), H.263, H.261

   Audio compressors
   AAC, QUALCOMM PureVoice, AMR, QDesign

   ]]> http://www.gravlab.com/forum/2007/05/07/hinting-a-quicktime-movie-for-real-time-streaming/feed/