[osflash] Why do I need a media server verse justaccessingfiles from my webserver?

[Bernard Visscher]

Icecast: http://www.icecast.org/ is a streaming media server
You can broadcast a stream to the icecast server and the subscribers can
listen to your broadcast.
 
Shoutcast: http://www.shoutcast.com/download/ is the same.


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Van: osflash-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] Namens
Mick Knutson
Verzonden: donderdag 6 juli 2006 23:48
Aan: Open Source Flash Mailing List
Onderwerp: Re: [osflash] Why do I need a media server verse
justaccessingfiles from my webserver?


It seems like icecast is for sending audio to MY audio server? It seems that
shoutcast is sending a stream to a shoutcast server, then to free
subscribers? This is going to be a paid subscription service, so I need this
secured. 

But will this still use something like Red5 as the audio server?




On 7/6/06, Bernard Visscher <bernard at debit.nl  <mailto:bernard at debit.nl> >
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. 

To stream Audio you could use something like icecast or shoutcast (very
easy). If I'm correct Flash can connect to a audio stream.

So, will I store media as flat files on my server or in my DB?

 IMO you should go for flat files, a DB isn't created as a filesystem and
therefore will be much overhead. 


 Bernard 



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 <  <mailto:mickknutson at gmail.com>
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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