[sho88]

Basically, there's a minister at a church down in Kent who wants a website
done with online streaming.
Now, I know how to embed a video on a webpage, but how do i embed
a streaming video and what kind of web programming language would i
need for this?

thanks
sho

[Karl Buckland]

Flash video, Quicktime and WMV formats should stream automatically...

[sho88]

Yeah, I know, but the thing is, how would I get it to stream LIVE on the internet....?

The preacher will be preaching live at church, and it'll be broadcasted on his website, so
people all over the world would be able to watch it....

how would that work? what would I need to be able to initialize that?

[dream party]

sho88, on Nov 1 2008, 05:03 PM, said:

Basically, there's a minister at a church down in Kent who wants a website
done with online streaming.
Now, I know how to embed a video on a webpage, but how do i embed
a streaming video and what kind of web programming language would i
need for this?

thanks
sho

As you must have seen, flash is a good thing, for it enables more than 90% of all Internet userss can see your videos. As I know, flash video (.flv) is popular on Internet nowadays. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo!. But .flv cannot be embedded directly to web page. To add your flash video to your website, you need to create a flash video player (actually a .swf file), and includes the .flv in the flash video player. Now the .swf file can be embedded directly to web page. Also remember to upload all these flash files to your host's web server.

Here is the HTML code to embed .swf file to a web page, hope it helps:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"  width="432" height="330" title="game">
	  <param name="movie" value="/flash/game.swf" />
	  <param name="quality" value="high" />
	  <embed src="/flash/game.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="432"  height="330"></embed>
	</object>

p.s. "/flash" is the folder where you store flash files.

[adamblan]

try setting the streaming param

<param name="isStreaming" value="true" />

[marcamos]

You might also need to look into the hardware needs to pull this off: camera, video capture card, software to make said video public to the internet (to this point, the computer itself might need to open a port and allow incoming traffic), etc.