streaming video and mms

[armands_pucs]

Hello!

I was experimenting with streaming video using the wmv format and found out that I can`t get it the way I want.

I insert the code for the player using the <OBJECT> tags - it plays, but I cant move the small button on the seek bar - in other words I cant start playing for example in the middle of a video.

I checked the code of some sites that offer streaming video and it looks like they all are using mms:// servers.

Do I really need an mms:// server to be able to do this?

I compress my videos using the windows movie maker.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Hmm it looks like you might need to use flash video which has progressive streaming which is basically streaming but will work on almost any server. Flash MX and Flash 8 has these components built in. Have a look at this tutorial (http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/getstart_flv.html). I find the Riva Flash Video Encoder (http://rivavx.com/?downloads) easy to use to convert many forms of video into flv files that can be used with the tutorial in the link on this post. The Riva encoder is free to.

[armands_pucs]

Thanks :) I think I will do that.

I did some research and experiments on flash and it looks quite easy to make the player