: What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming (but not live) video? What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming video? Where would you start? Edit: Let's

@Holmes151

I am not sure why so many people are pointing you to streaming servers, what you are looking to achieve certainly does not require a streaming server deploy.

You can achieve what you'd like to do with most webservers.

Heck - IIS 6.0 can do this if you add the MIME types :)

nginx - wiki.nginx.org/HttpFlvStreamModule apache - journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2006/07/11/mod_flvx/

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@Cugini213

IIS 7 offers Smooth Streaming which is Microsoft’s implementation of HTTP-based adaptive streaming. For more details, check this Smooth Streaming FAQ & a step-by-step implementation guide

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@Mendez628

A combination of Wowza Media Server and the open source Flowplayer flash application do a great job of streaming archived video from a website. The City of Nanaimo is using these tools along with Adobe's Flash Media Live Encoder and ffmpeg for their council video archives (example)

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@Caterina187

For IIS you can install the IIS Media Services addin.

Here is a tutorial on streaming with Apache: Video Streaming With Apache

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