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Streaming Video


Video on the web

Streaming video is a great new way to deliver video over the Web. Clips play instantaneously with a video plug-in instead of being downloaded. The following video streaming solutions are included with MediaStudio Pro 5.0, today's most complete and powerful desktop video editing solution.
Streaming Video
After you've shot the video in MediaStudio you can convert it to a streaming format. Simply follow the instructions that come with the software (For a list of our streaming video partners click here) ". To compress, typically you have to load your video into a video compressor which will compress the signal into a proprietary streaming format (different for every company). At this point most streaming compressors offer a variety of preferences or properties to choose from, to help you get the smallest possible size with the highest amount of compression.
    Example of file properties:
  • audio format stereo, mono, 8-22kB
  • frame rate 1-30
  • frame size
  • cropping



RealVideo is the first full featured, cross-platform video solution, supported by leading industry tools companies and content providers and built on the industry standard protocol for streaming media, RTSP.

Streaming video lesson

Once you've created the compressed file, you have to embed it into a web page and try it on web users.

* HTTP Pseudo-Streaming
HTTP enables audio content providers to stream RealVideo from a World Wide Web server. While this method is not as robust as using a media server, it provides a reasonable method for providing low-volumes of RealVideo content from Web sites such as personal pages.

Before you can stream clips through HTTP, you must define the following MIME types for your Web server:
  • audio/x-pn-realaudio (files with a .rm or .ram file extension)
  • audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin (files with a .rpm file extension)
  • Some World Wide Web servers are pre-configured with these MIME types.

    Note: If you are running a web page off an ISP server, send mail to the ISP administrator asking them to setup the RealAudio mime type.

* To stream RealVideo content using HTTP
  1. Copy your encoded RealVideo files (files with the .rm extension) to your World Wide Web server.
  2. Use a text editor (such as Notepad) to create a metafile containing a RealVideo URL. For example, the contents of your file should be in the following form:

    http://hostname/path

    where hostname is the name of your World Wide Web server. For example: www.real.com
  3. Save your metafile as text using a .ram filename extension.
  4. In your HTML document, reference the metafile in a hyperlink. For example:

    <A HREF="filename.ram">
    <A HREF="http://hostname/file.ram">

    You can use relative or complete paths. If you use complete paths, you must include both the hostname and the complete path. For example:

    <A HREF="http://www.ra.com/home/welcome.ram">

  5. When a user clicks on the link, the audio file(s) begin to download. The RealPlayer begins playing after a few seconds; it does not need to wait for the entire file to be downloaded.