Hosting your own movies from your PC

Sorry no I'm not, although I've seen some flash movies and they play well. As well, you really dont 'stream' flash as it requires that the client download the flash presentation b4 showing it. At least, that's what I've read.

I cant aforde a hosting service and im a very non tech orented girl
i have some movies on my hard drive i want to share with my love
half the things your talking about are so far above my head I have no clue.
I was able to convert the file to mpg1 format
But am at a loss as to what to do next.

please post a non tech step by step version of what i should do so we can watch my movies in sl

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Rea

Or you can convert the flash/swf file to an MP4 and use QT hinting to add streaming capability...

/esc

Rea, I wish I could provide a simple option for you, but since (and this is an assumption) you're probably connecting to the internet through a standard cable modem or DSL modem, you're really not going to have enough bandwidth to display the movie to both you & your love (i.e. your pipe isnt large enough to allow that much water through).

I was fortunate enough to have a fast company sized internet connection (T1) available to me, and even that will only show the movies to 2 people (or 3-4 if the movie is really really crunched down & hard to watch).

I think though that there are quite a few hosting services that are only around $10/mo US, so would that be an option? If so, I believe a couple are mentioned on the pages in this thread somewhere.

Good luck to you, I feel your pain

/me pouts
ok thanks for you information and for responding
be well

yes you can afford your own hosting. www.domatic.com $8-$10 a month unlimited bandwidth (I have pushed 6-8gig and no word from them)

home pc is just not doable. if you can not afford hosting you can not afford viable home network to do this.

cable gives you 40-50k up. for a NICE high res video this is not enough even for one person.
you would have to REALLY compress the video to below 200kbps (very low quality) and even then you would only have enough bandwidth for one person MAYBE (depends on how much overhead your other internet activities requires including your normal upstream data to SL

to reliably send video via cable modem for say 3 or 4 people you would probably need to lower the bitrate to around 40-80kbps which would be virtually unwatchable!!

DSL ? unless you got highspeed syncronous forget it.

as for vider formats. you can stream anything quicktime can watch (sadly this means no divx although I think quicktime has a divx codec available for macs but not windows)

any other (most) avi formats. mov formats mpeg1 and 2 formats etc.. if quicktime (normal quicktime not quicktime alternative) can play it then you can stream it.

all you have to do is upload your video file to the web and reference that file from a media player in SL. it should be that easy. hopefully quicktime 7 when it comes to the PC will have divx support because you can make 200kbps WATCHABLE divs files

Chris Taylor
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