flv server

[mark peberdy]

Hi everyone, I'm making 30 minute flvs in the uk to be played by a custom built player in spain, the idea is i make 'em, then upload 'em to their server then they supply users who have the player installed on their machines. So far the 4 minute test movies come to about 2.5MB and are looking and playing ok from my server but the player builder says they'll be too big for him to broadcast !! So I need to know if i can remote feed the movies from my server to his, and then from his server to the punters who have the players installed on their machines.
Also I'd be grateful of any advice on encoding or if anyone has found any good sites for encoding tips.
Many thanks
Mark

[vesa kortelainen]

i dont understand.. U wanna stream or let people download your videos?

about Encoding, search with google...

[Jorge Solis]

Well, I'm curious to check it, since I'm in Spain  

The simplest answer: put the files in his server.
There are well known encoder technologies, but if you're using flv files, then FlashCom is the choice.

Jorge

[mark peberdy]

Hello folks,
Thanks for the response, to clarify it, there's an issue over keeping control over our movies. We'd rather not upload them to the  builder if we can help it as we fear they may be distributed without our consent,
What he wants to do is have the player on the viewers' pcs and the movie download from his server to them (I guess it's a download as opposed to stream as he's not using flash comm server).
What I'd like to be able to do is hold the flv on my web server that supplies his server and then relay to the viewers but something tells me this is not possible and that the players should have my URL instead of his!
Does anyone know if this is not possible?
Please bear with me as I'm still learning.
Many thanks
Mark

[Jorge Solis]

If the goal is to reduce download time, the important thing is where the file resides. Redirections doesn't matter: the call should reach the server where the file is. An usual test is to ping from the end point to the origin point to check latency.

Jorge

[mark peberdy]

Thanks, sounds do-able, so theoretically speaking, as long as the call gets from the button on the person's player to the URL where the file is it should play as long as there's a decent feed, I'm being told by them that my movie has to be on their server but not why, is there any reason you can think of why it has to be on theirs?
Many many thanks
Mark
 

[Jorge Solis]

There are alot of reasons concerning bandwidth, server hardware and distance among others (client kind of connection is also cumbersome) A simply measurement of distance:

- open the DOS screen and write: ping myhost.com

Look at the time in miliseconds that the messages takes

- repeat the same from Spain (well I can do that if you give me the URL)

This is called latency, and varies due to the changing state of the Net, but could give a clue in the difference if you repeat the same based on a Spain server

Then repeat the same, but write: tracert myhost.com

It gives how many hops (routers along the way) should pass the packet. This is another clue.

Jorge

[mark peberdy]

cheers jorge,
I'm mac based but i can ping from an app called network utility, I haven't got the spanish URL yet but hope to soon so I'm gonna hold off on that for a while,
It's difficult for me as I'm still learning alot so I don't have the terminology to describr what I'm trying to do!
What I'm trying to achieve right now is make my swf that lives on my desk top load an flv from my server but I can only seem to find info on loading external flvs from the same folder in the same directory.
Do you know how I can go about this?
Thanks a million.
mark