Videos on web pages

Videos can be in many formats. mpeg 1 and mpeg2 are not really a good idea to put on the web server. QuickTime files are! mpeg4 is great!!!!!!!!!!!! quicktime plays mpeg4 and the extension .mp4 or .mov doesn't matter.

Streamed files are better for non-broadband users than downloaded files.

QuickTime?/RTSP Streaming

See this page http://www.ecse.monash.edu.au/dantest/index1.html for some examples and then look in that directory on the server for the .qtl files (which contain easy to edit xml text).

This was based on stuff learnt from http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Quicktime/QT4WebPage/samplechap/special-9.html

CTIE has many QuickTime?/RTSP streaming servers as does the UNI!!!

By preference use streaming.monash.edu as the main streaming server.

At present only user dan can install stuff in ecse directory. eg: rtsp://streaming.monash.edu/ecse/ECSE-MONASH_56k.mov

This is the code you could add inside a web page to create a link to the streaming video:

 <a href="rtsp://streaming.monash.edu/ecse/ECSE-MONASH_56k.mov"> rtsp-ECSE-monash-56k.mov </a>

The above does NOT use the proper embed/object tags and you get mixed results dependent on browser - may start a player, may say unknown thingy

Please spend some time reading the following pages and links: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/it/artsweb/info_resources/mediaserver/

Also lots of really useful info on Peter stagg's pages about embedding videos etc on web pages http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~pstagg/qtembed_present/index.shtml

Windows Media

Good for downloading as a second option. CTIE has a machine quokka.ctie.monash.edu.au which is experimental, but is up basically all the time. It can stream windows media files. You need to create a .asx file that points to the media files location on quokka.

Playing/Downloading from www.ecse web server

The following should just download - your browser may start and play them as well http://www.ecse.monash.edu.au/movies/ECSE-MONASH_56k.mp4 http://www.ecse.monash.edu.au/movies/ECSE-MONASH_56k.wmv

To make the above work, I edited the /etc/mime.types and added wmv to the avi entry and mp4 to the quicktime mov entry. The mime info is used by browsers to decide what to do with the file with that extension.

-- DanGrimm - 16 Dec 2003

Trying to make wiki generate link to rtsp: This doesn't work either (damn) - well actually it sort of does. on mozilla it kicks off realone player and it does play ok. rtsp-ECSE-monash-56k.mov

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