Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:455] Re: Audio Streaming
From: Arthur M. Recesso (amrecess@valdosta.edu)
Date: Mon 16 Oct 2000 - 19:51:14 MEST
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:51:14 -0400 From: "Arthur M. Recesso" <amrecess@valdosta.edu> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:455] Re: Audio Streaming
Mary Harrsch said: "If you don't want your visitors to have to wait for the
entire file download you need to check with your web server administrator to see
if the server is equipped with the streaming delivery software."
Your correct Mary. I had not made the distinction between streaming and
downloading for fear of complicating the issue (not knowing the level of
expertise of the original poster). If large file download is the issue and
streaming creates complications I suggest creating a streaming web page using
Java. I have a 20mb file streaming video directly from the web page without
realserver on the file server. The quality of this file is due to the equipment
I was using, not the streaming.
http://innovativeknowledge.com/video/javavideo.htm
Art
IFETS Discussion List wrote:
> IFETS-DISCUSSION Digest 54
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> Topics covered in this issue include:
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> 1) broad call for participation (DOT.EDU)
> by jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>
> 2) Audio on the Internet (how to)
> by "Mary Harrsch" <mharrsch@oregon.uoregon.edu>
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> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:11:44 -0400
> From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>
> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:449] broad call for participation (DOT.EDU)
> To: cddc@vtonline.psci.vt.edu, edu-online@egroups.com,
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> Please Distribute widely
> DOT.EDU at http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/vu is a news and discussion website on
> the topics of online education and virtual universities and the issues
> surrounding those phenomena like intellectual property, digital
> publishing, etc. cooked up at the Center for Digital Discourse and
> Culture. This broad call for participation is to encourage people to
> submit their news, conference announcements, job announcements and
> everything related to the topics of the website. The larger the community
> of contributor and participants is to the DOT.EDU, the greater value the
> website will have over time. The aim is to make this a community resource
> for the body of researchers interested in these topics.
> uri: http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/vu
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> Thanks you
> Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu
> Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
> Webmaster/Manager CDDC http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber
> 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage
> Virginia Tech (yes i need to update it)
> Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614
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> Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu
> Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
> Webmaster/Manager CDDC http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber
> 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage
> Virginia Tech (yes i need to update it)
> Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614
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> From: "Mary Harrsch" <mharrsch@oregon.uoregon.edu>
> To: <IFETS-DISCUSSION@catfish.valdosta.edu>
> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:450] Audio on the Internet (how to)
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:57:02 +1300
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> Art Recesso said: "The easiest way to place audio (and video) files on
> the Internet is to use the RealNetworks solutions".
>
> Just a note - if the web server where your Real Networks files are
> located is not equipped with the Real Networks server product, the files
> will download (if the MIME type is set correctly on the server) but will
> not stream. If you don't want your visitors to have to wait for the
> entire file download you need to check with your web server
> administrator to see if the server is equipped with the streaming
> delivery software.
>
> We are presently working with a different technology - Microsoft's
> active streaming format. We really didn't have an option as we are
> preparing to stream a series of radio interviews of our research faculty
> (http://interact.uoregon.edu/coeonline.html) and the streaming source is
> the radio station. The radio station is using a free service provided by
> Stream Audio (http://www.streamaudio.com ), a company that uses the
> Microsoft technology. The service provider not only encodes the
> broadcast stream but includes javascript and Flash 4 components (for
> Windows viewers) in the presentation. Although the resulting application
> includes an automatic detection for Flash 4 and redirection to a still
> image if Flash 4 is not present, some security-conscious people may have
> disabled javascript in their browser so, from an audience preparation
> perspective, this adds a certain degree of complexity. Yesterday, I
> also learned that Media Player does not install its plugin automatically
> into America Online browsers either so I have had to add a link to the
> AOL plugin with special instructions for AOL users to my broadcast
> preparation instructions
> (http://interact.uoregon.edu/broadcastprep.html).
>
> We have had the most difficulty getting the program to play properly on
> MacIntosh machines since the software requires a certain OS version and
> performs best in Internet Explorer 5 due to changes to the Mac's Open
> Transport programming in later versions.
>
> When you are attempting to deliver a program to the general public, you
> must consider these aspects since you have no control over the level of
> technology or computer literacy of the recipients. However, the
> benefits of this mode of content delivery is substantial. Normally, the
> range of Portland AM860 (http://www.radiofreeoregon.com ) is about a 75
> mile radius of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. By streaming the
> content through the internet, we can extend our community outreach
> efforts to a global audience. Stream Audio also revised their encoder
> to add the capability to create archive files of the interviews and they
> have offered to provide streaming services of these archive files to us
> at no charge. These collaborative agreements help us as a publicly
> funded institution leverage our limited technology services budget.
>
> Mary Harrsch
> Network & Information Systems Manager
> College of Education
> University of Oregon
> Eugene, OR 97403
> (541) 346-3554
> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mharrsch
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