MY OBJECT:

Get a single video clip to play over the Internet without any special
streaming server and have it play into Real Player 8 Basic, or higher, OR,
Windows Media Player 7.1, or higher!

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I'VE DONE THIS SUCCESSFULLY WITH AUDIO:

I've used Metafiles (.RAM for RealPlayer, ASX for Windows Media Player) to
stream audio over the Internet. In fact, I've done the above with no special
streaming server, just an AT&T Worldnet directory to store the audio files
and their respective metafiles.

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QUESTION?

Can I do the same thing with MPEG-1 video? I would need to setup a metafile
to point to the video file and do what I did with audio, but using a video
file instead. One metafile (.RAM) for Real Player and one metafile (.ASX)
for Media Player. But there would be one MPEG-1 video file.

Is that possible?

If yes, what are the mechanics of implementing it. Do I just add the .MPG
extension (MPEG-1) video file into the metafiles, .RAM and .ASX,
respectively?

Thanks,

Pat

Hi everyone:

"Pat" <hotpatpar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ZUhb.1663$fv4.889@nwrdny02.gnilink.net...
[snip....]

In a word - NO.

Video (no matter HOW it's encoded), is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT beast. In
order to do what you propose to do, you would have to make several videos.

Hope this helps :-)

Cheers for now :-)

Patrick Cook
Proud Member - Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
Program Director
Jeeper One Radio Network
KPDC Internet TV - REAL Web TV
Denver, Colorado
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