Oct 20
Video Streaming hosting services can be consider as a hi-fi type of media hosting services which is responsible for delivering media files which can be viewed in real-time over the net. Video streaming requires lot of server resources and enough bandwidth, if you want to stream your video files then you are required to have a special server with streaming software installed on it or need to get a hosting package which supports video/media streaming on their servers.
You can consider a Media Streaming Server as a special server which is having a specialized application installed on it which is required for streaming video files and broadcasting it over the internet so that all visitors can view them smoothly without waiting for downloading of video files. Streaming servers are capable of handling large traffic loads and multiple requests for video files. They can detect internet connection speed of user viewing them and thus can provide appropriate files. They are also used for broadcasting LIVE Events such as sports matches, Live events, news, shows etc.. over the internet.
Using streaming server you can setup your radio station or can broadcast live events where all website visitors can viewer can listen your media files in ? real-time? so you can attract more traffic to your website and thus can increase your business/revenue. But setting up and maintaining a streaming server is not a easy job, you should be familiar with all technical aspects of video hosting and server management, thus its always recommended to get a web host who is expert in hosting such media servers. Before paying for getting streaming server make sure you would get enough server resources with good processor, may be dual core or quad core processor along with huge harddrive space and RAM. Processing of video files requires huge server resources so its better to start with highly configured server having good RAM and Processor. Setting up a online video streaming facility requires onetime huge investment and usually used by big organizations.
Oct 02
In olden days if we want to publish video on website then all your website visitor who are interested for viewing them will have to first download entire video file on their local machine and then they can watch it, it was very time consuming process and no one want to wait for anything to download and view nowadays. Now you have a better option popularly known as STREAMING TECHNOLOGY. In this technology video is playback while it is downloading so no need to wait for long hours to get your favorite video clip download completely on your local machine. If you are using this Video Streaming technology all your webusers should have streaming video player installed on their system so that they can enjoy your video clip.
Currently there are three major players that all webmaster will most likely have: QuickTime, Real Player, and Windows Media. In Streaming technology media/video files are transmitted in a continuous stream of data which is processed by the receiving computer while the entire file is still in transmission process. Video Streaming technology uses data compression technique so as to deliver data faster at other end. Requesting computer should have video player which will accept all streaming data and will decompress it and will send proper signals to display and sound devices. Once downloading of streaming file starts from website on users computer it will start paying audio/video file without any delay, video playback also depends on your modem and internet connection speed you have for your system.
Thus Video Streaming technology is promising video technology for all webmasters who are related with audio and video industry.
Oct 02
There are many tools available for recording video which are available on internet. Recently i have found one which is much more powerful and helpful. It’s “Camtasia” you can consider it as an “Online video Recorder” or a “video stream recorder” Camtasia is a product developed by the TechSmith Corporation
Camtasia is a video screen capture program using which you can easily capture and edit anything you see on your PC screen. You can grab videos and can save them in most popular video formats like AVI, streaming media formats (WMV, RM, MOV), and
animated GIF. Using its advance feature you can also pinpoint cursor movements with special visual effects, it also have wide range of effects such as highlighting, zooming, and panning, etc.
Basically Camtasia have two inbuilt programs, the Camtasia Recorder which is used to record Windows desktop activity into video format and Camtasia Producer which is a non-linear editor used for editing videos and for creating streaming videos and AVI files. Thus using above tools you can you can capture all screen activities and can save them in video format which can be of good quality and is highly compressed.
There are many advance features such as splitting/trimming/splitting AVI clips, AVI format conversion (e.g. frame rate, color depth, codecs), audio compression, smooth scaling (interpolation), hundreds of transition effects and many more which can be used with your video.
Such Online Video Recorder will save your precious time and thus you can concentrate more on building video website.
Oct 01
If you are planning to publish video on your website you first need to Encode your video file for Windows Media, Real Player or Apple Quicktime formats so that they can be played smoothly in web browser. Once you encode your video file you just need to upload these files on a server running streaming media software so that all your video files can be delivered to all webusers.
You can consider a streaming server as a special server which is responsible for ? true streaming ? True streaming have following advantages as :
- They are specially designed for handling large traffic for all video embedded sites.
- They can detect users internet connection speed and will accordingly send data at your user end.
- They are capable for broadcasting LIVE VIDEO events such as Live Sports Matches, Live Shows, Live Presentations etc?
You have two different ways for getting a Streaming server, either you purchase/lease your own dedicated server and set it for streaming video files by installing some video streaming software or you can signup with a host offering you video streaming hosting package for fixed rent.
If you are planning to get a standalone server which can be used as streaming server then you need to get and install some streaming server software on your server or on your existing server. You have range of Streaming softwares which can be installed on both Linux and Windows Hosting Server platforms.
Following are most common video streaming software which are widely used by all webmasters
*) Helix Universal Server from RealNetworks : This server supports a variety of formats, including RealMedia, Windows Media, Quicktime and MPEG-4.
*) Apple Quicktime Streaming Server : Support few video formats which includes MPEG-4 and 3GPP.
*) Macromedia Communication Server : Commonly used for all Flash-based video and interactive multimedia presentations.
Each of above streaming technologies have their own proprietary server and types of media files that they use. Each have their own corresponding server designed to stream files in a preferred formats.
Sep 29
Placing informative or funny videos on website can be a attractive medium for attracting visitor for your website. You can easily grab attention and can convert all your website visitor to your loyal customers. If you have video presentation for your products/services which can describe your product/service in more clean and easy way then you have won your customer. Visual impact is most powerful as compare to other media forms. Video presentations are easy to digest and can last long in your memory thus your website visitor will never forget your website or your product. Before developing a video presentation you should check if your webhosting service provider allow videos to be hosted on your hosting account. Most webhost allow video hosting on their servers but its always suggested to crosscheck with your webhost to avoid frustration.
There are two different forms which can be used for hosting video on your site. HTTP streaming and Live Streaming. First of all you need to shoot/edit and create video file which you want to put on your website, then you need to upload it on your hosting account or on your server. when using http streaming method you need to embed your video file using some code within your webpages so that they can be displayed and view by your website visitors. If you are using Windows Media Files as your video files then you can use following code to embed your Video File in your webpage.
CODE : -
<OBJECT ID=?MediaPlayer? WIDTH=?192? HEIGHT=?190? CLASSID=?CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95?
STANDBY=?Loading Windows Media Player components?? TYPE=?application/x-oleobject?>
<PARAM NAME=?FileName? VALUE=?videofilename.wmv?>
<PARAM name=?ShowControls? VALUE=?true?>
<param name=?ShowStatusBar? value=?false?>
<PARAM name=?ShowDisplay? VALUE=?false?>
<PARAM name=?autostart? VALUE=?false?>
<EMBED TYPE=?application/x-mplayer2? src=?videofilename.wmv? NAME=?MediaPlayer?
WIDTH=?192? HEIGHT=?190? ShowControls=?1? ShowStatusBar=?0? ShowDisplay=?0? autostart=?0?> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>
Note : in the above code you will have to provide proper video file name which you have uploaded on your web hosting account in place of ?videofilename.wmv?
If you want you can also customized Windows Media player which would be appearing on your webpage. You can set option to show the playback controls, status indicator, size and dimension of player which would be on your webpage etc.
you should be sure that you have enough Diskspace and bandwidth, server resources allocated for your webhosting account so that all video files would be played smoothly.
Jan 21
If you are looking for adding Flash movies for your webpage which will attract attentions of your website visitors and hence more traffic then all you have to do is to follow the steps given blow !
Before getting started you should complete designing part of your movie, now you will have to save your movie as ? flashmovie.fla ? ( or whatever name you want )
Now for embedding flash movie within your HTML pages of your site you will have to get back to Flash application and will have to follow few steps :
Open your newly created Flash movie. Now you need to export this movie using File >> Export Movie
Provide the name for the your flash file as flashmovie.swf ( or whatever name you want ) Choose the location where this file would be stored and complete the process.
Now you need to open the HTML webpage where you want to publish this Flash movie and insert below code within your webpage. Using above code you can embed Flash movie within your webpage which can be viewed in webbrowser. If any webuser don?t have Flash plug-in installed on their computer then they wont be able to view this Flash movie and a broken icon would appear on the webpage for them. So its necessary to have Flash plug-in installed on computer of webuser.
Regarding code : You can see there are two tags used within code <embed> and <object> tag respectively. <object> tag is recognized by Internet Explorer while <embed> tag is for Netscape as Netscape webbrowser ignores <object> tag. Thus using both tags all webusers can view your Flash Video file non matter which webbrowser they are using ( Internet Explorer / Netscape )
Just upload your Flash Movie and Flash embedded HTML page on your dedicated server, that’s all you have successfully published Flash movie on your website. Make sure all website visitor should have Flash Player installed as addon plugin for their browser.
