is it possible to stream a wmv file?
 

just curious - everyone seems to use flash

is it possible to stream a wmv file? meaning skip ahead before the file has downloaded

Here's a helpful link that might answer your question

http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/streaming.htm

i mean stream/skip AHEAD - meaning skip ahead in a movie like the big tubes do but with a WMV file onto a part of the movie that isn't downloaded yet

yes, this was around much before the flvs.

remember the mms:// streaming files?

only issue is that sometimes they won't work well with firefox

try the code below

I guess you need Windows Media Server for that. You can encode one big streaming file (with Media Encoder) that's holding a bunch of different bit rates in it, so it streams the best version depending on the clients bandwidth.

I would go for mp4 streaming, better quality and you can do it with lighthtpd and some streaming mods.

YOu need Windows Media Server to do this. If you install it on anything else like Apache for example it will download but not stream.

Microsoft has Silverlight. Look that up and see what you find.

just let us stream all your videos :)

yes : check out www.worldwidefeeds.com/demo we have 1000's of streaming wmv files for your site :)

Use this is you are comfortable with linux stuff.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/

Why do you want to stream WMV files? It's slower, eats more bandwidth and has more browser compatibility issues.

Apple's Quicktime Streaming Server and it's open source branded clone
Darwin Streaming Server provide streaming capability with out locking you in
to one vendor for everything. With Microsoft, you have to use their server on
their OS with their encoding and management tools. The open source Darwin
server and it's commercially supported version by Apple can run on any server
OS, such as Linux, FreeBSD, Unix, Mac OSX, Solaris, and even desktop OSes
including Windows. Because Darwin doesn't require you to package your video
stream in a proprietary WMV package, but instead lets you use the actual
video directly as a plain mpeg file, you can use almost any tool you wish to
create, convert, and manage your content.

All of the dedicated streaming servers suffer from one huge drawback, though.
Because they all dispose of the web server, you lose the hundreds of different
features and functions provided by Apache. Basically, anything you have in your
.htaccess will be lost by using a streaming-only server, as well as other things you
may rely on such as stats. Security, is another example. There are many different
authentication systems designed for Apache which won't work with a streaming
server that just does streaming, not strong authentication. To avoid this problem,
the best route for many sites may be to use a module or web service which adds
full streaming capability to Apache. That way you still have your same stats, your
same security, your same search engine friendly URLs, etc. All that changes is
that you go from http streaming to full streaming with seek capability.

The module based solutions will be most efficient and are easy to set up and manage.
Here's one. You may find others worth considering:
http://h264.code-shop.com/trac

The PHP ones will be the very easiest, but not the much efficient.
Here's one of several:
http://polygeek.com/1423_flex_video-streaming-php-xmoov

Web services are more difficult to set up and manage, and may be more efficient than PHP:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/s...treamingengine

why not convert it on server to flv file?