Independent Streaming?

[GamerFill]

Hey there everybody,

Right now I'm running my video game review website on Wordpress 2.9.1.; if it helps to know.

I'd like to know how to stream my own videos on my own website without the use of Youtube or Vimeo or anything else like that. The reason is because whenever I use those sites, my video quality gets bogged-down substantially.
I do have my own unlimited hosting (unlimited bandwidth and space), so it should not be a problem.

How exactly would I go about streaming my own videos? I obviously know I need to upload the videos via FTP to a folder in my public_html directory, but what do I do after that?
I can't just post the link and hope for it to magically appear (...can I?) , so how do I stream the video?

Thanks a million to whoever can answer this question!

[Baldrick]

Convert to a mp4 with h264 video and aac audio(using handbrake, xvid4psp, etc) and then use the flash flow player or jwplayer on your site. See https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/293382-Flash-with-high-quality-video-%28MP4-with-H2...d-AAC-audio%29

[GamerFill]

Now there's an idea.
After reading the link you posted; why can't I just convert the videos to .flv? Since it's a flash player. Or would the quality be better on an mp4?

Also, I'm assuming Sony Vegas Pro is a fine substitute for the program above; as I can convert and render to .mp4 with that. So that should be fine, right?

[guns1inger]

Note that Vegas does not produce streaming capable MP4 files. You can render from Vegas, but you will have to re-mux the files with mp4box to get them to stream

[GamerFill]

Well that's a bit frustrating. So much encoding and nonsense.

Thanks for the tip though.
Do you happen to know if this method will bog-down the quality of the videos? Because I will be using HD-quality renders.
And what about just converting the file to .flv; wouldn't that work just as well with something like jwplayer?

[guns1inger]

It does not affect the quality, as it doesn't re-encode. It just puts appropriate flags into the stream Should only take a couple of minutes

[GamerFill]

Alright well I'll give that a try and see if it works; thanks a bunch for your help!

[porfitron]

If you're looking to self-publish, you should consider the DivX Plus Web Player. It streams video over standard HTTP hosting, and lets you serve your files as DivX (DivX/AVI/MP3) or DivX Plus (MKV/H.264/AAC) videos. In the DivX Web Developer Guide, you have options to allow users to download the files (or not) and have the player interact with JavaScript if you want to do more than a standard HTML embed. If you use the DivX Plus format for your videos, you can also mux in multiple audio tracks and subtitles, since the container is MKV. Again, this is all free, and the nice thing is that the files are in a good format for local and device playback, too.

Here's a link to the DivX Web Developer Guide:
http://developer.divx.com/docs/DivX_Web_Player/

Also, we're going to be releasing some CMS plug-ins shortly that'll let you easily plug this player and DivX video into your website, so follow us on DivX Labs if you'll be interested in this.