[osflash] Why do I need a media server verse just accessing files from my webserver?

[hank williams]

Just to be clear, for what you are trying to do, a media server is exactly
what you want. Your files are large and you dont want to have people
downloading the whole file to listen to five minutes of something.

You should consider using Red5 which is all written in Java and is, as I
understand it, a servlet. I would not use a database. You should develop a
system that allows you to install your files where the files are assigned
unique ID numbers and those numbers map to a record in your database where
you can store whatever descriptive information.

I do something similar, and I actually dont store everything in one
directory, but in subdirectorys based on the ID number. This is kind of a
hashing thing for files just to give the file system a break by not putting
a huge number of files in one directory.

The way your media server will work is fairly straight forward. Your code
will say it wants to play a file at a given path, and the server will play
it.

Regards
Hank

On 7/6/06, Mick Knutson <mickknutson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am creating an internet radio site. It has hundreds of hours of
> historical music, and new music all the time. Hopefully I can somehow stream
> on-air shows, or concerts on location to the  site. I also want to
> eventually hook up video from the on-site concert feeds.
>
> I also want to use what I know, which is JBoss/J2EE/Java for as much as
> possible.
> I just do not understand how this server will be hooked. But the
> explaination you gave makes sense from what the media server will do.
>
> So, will I store media as flat files on my server or in my DB?
> Will there be shared access to those files for things like administration
> of the media?
> Do you have any achitectural diagram showing how all the pieces live
> together? Such as the communication from my Business objects to Red5, then
> how the streams communicate with my UI (Applets or Flash).
>
>
>
>
> On 7/6/06, hank williams <hank777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > a media server FMS or Red5, allows you to fast forward, jump to a
> > particular point in a file, and not download the whole file if the user
> > starts watching. There are also intelligent things that can be done to serve
> > the correct content based on the bandwidth. But a media server is not the
> > right solution for every problem. Progressive download (what you call
> > downloading from your server) is totally appropriate for lots of
> > applications. It really just depends on exactly what you need to do. But if
> > you arent missing any features its likely you dont need it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hank
> >
> > On 7/6/06, Mick Knutson < mickknutson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If I have a webserver, with files on the server harddrive, and whimpy
> > player, what will I need a special media server?
> >
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