Help Required: Streaming a QuickTime Video

rich_g85 · 20 Jan 2009 at 09:34

Hi all,
At work, we have a 5mb QuickTime video (our latest TV ad) which we need to stream over the LAN to hundreds of clients.

What's the quickest and 'free-est' way of doing this? We need something up and running today, without spending any money if at all possible. We'll be using a Windows Server 2003 box - no Mac hardware available, so should I look at transcoding the video to MPEG?

I've played around for quite some time with the streaming options in VLC Media Player, but didn't really get anywhere.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Rich

Edward01 · 20 Jan 2009 at 09:51

streaming over the net? upload to an ftp and let them download them selves? or write a quick webpage with it in and host it?

or get vlc working

ps. my next suggestion would be tversity

rich_g85 · 20 Jan 2009 at 10:27

Just to confirm- I'm looking to stream over the LAN, not the Internet.

I spent about an hour and a half last night trying to get VLC to work properly. Results were fairly bad, all I could manage was a horrifically choppy, low quality video stream with no audio!

The other thing I have to bear in mind is, what works on my PC in the IT dept. with admin rights etc, may not work correctly on a user's PC out in the stores.

From the client's perspective, I just want them to be able to click a link from an email and use standard applications such as Windows Media Player to watch the video.

I will have a look at Tversity now.

Edward01 · 20 Jan 2009 at 10:36

well I don't know how your network works but a couple of more suggestions.

- Place the file in a shared/common directory and send them the link to it.
- Quickly load a version of apache or iis and host your own LAN website with it on.
- If its over LAN just e-mail the 5mb file to them.