Re: How do I stream music from my website?
- From: "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:31:00 GMT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:30:05 -0400, "Ned Hamilton" <noone@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So Neil at my school where we have students make WMVs and are careful to put them on shares on our network that have configured IIS
** IIS doesn't provide streaming media services : You must have meant
"Windows server 2003 with windows media services, but *happens* to
have IIS enabled on that server too".
to provide streaming service and the links to these sites use mms protocol instead of http.
Are you saying that none of this is necessary: the streaming server, the special locations that has IIS configurations different
from http service, and the mms style links. All of this is unnecessary because a WMV will download to IE6 and stream (ie. begin
playing immediately) regardless of the IIS configuration?
No, I'm saying in the explicit case of MP3 files, the OP would be best
simply letting the users browser handle the download and playback of
the MP3 using the defaultly registered playback program of the user.
WMV is entirely different to MP3 in terms of data rate and client
support, as there are no common/realistic alternatives for playback to
WMP.
In addition, regular streaming of [particularly] video has
requirements quite distinct to delivering occasional MP3s to a
passer-by to a website on the internet.
If the OP was expecting to get slashdotted, I'd probably have
suggested some proper streaming provision eg at Limewire or Akamai, or
putting the video on Youtube's flash server to prevent the requests
taking down his web server.
A streaming server has proper negotiation facilities for managing
bandwidth and client quality between the server and the player - a web
server has none of this functionality and can only blindly send the
data as fast as the client acknowledges it.
With a fast connection at both ends, and reliable http transport, this
can sometimes look like streaming, but it is not due to the lack of
negotiation of bandwidth and quality management.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------You can simply upload the MP3 files directly to your website.
Try to keep the bitrate lower for streaming, say 48-64kbps.
Users clicking the link to the MP3 will start whatever application is
registered for MP3 playback (eg WMP, Winamp, Quicktime).
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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