
> Well, just to take this thread off topic - does anyone know what's
> involved in serving streaming video? I assume that
>  the only practical alternatives are MS and Real, and that it's likely
> to cost some $$$ for the software.A quick Google search turns up:http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/index.html
Darwin streaming media serverhttp://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/index.php
MPEG4IP: Open Source, Open Standards, Open StreamingMPEG4IP provides an end-to-end system to explore MPEG-4 multimedia. The
package includes many existing open source packages and the "glue" to
integrate them together. This is a tool for streaming video and audio that
is standards-oriented and free from proprietary protocols and extensions.Provided are an MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder, an MP3 encoder, two MPEG-4 video
encoders, an MP4 file creator and hinter, an IETF standards-based streaming
server, and an MPEG-4 player that can both stream and playback from local
file.Our development is focused on the Linux platform, and has been ported to
Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, BSD/OS and Mac OS X, but it should be relatively
straight-forward to use on other platforms. Many of the included packages
are multi-platform already.
Both sound interesting, and low $$.- Jimhttp://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
