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<blockquote data-quote="joz" data-source="post: 377215" data-attributes="member: 70244">jonaskp I think the basics of your ideas are good but like you already kinda figured this will be really long term. I'm thinking running a quick test with on the fly transcoding to flv and streaming at the same time.I know about some issues before hand;1) Not all formats are suitable for streaming like this. containers can have video and audio split into 2 parts, 1 part video 1 part audio. It can also be a block video, block audio, block video etc. The last one is suitable for on the fly transcoding the first one isn't2) I need to read chunks of the data that's already converted. I hope I can get around filelocks etc, but shouldn't really be a problem because I only need to read to stream.3) I know flash has 2 (or maybe even more) ways of streaming. One of them (the better solution) requires a flash server, so that's a no go. If I can't get the on the fly transcoding and streaming to go there might be an alterrnative that's running a cron (or in windows task) say every hour to convert movies and save them somewhere for later streaming. This will eat HD space though but will save CPU power when streaming.This is really new for me so besides a good design I can also use some help on this streaming part. If someone has some insights I'm missing feel free to correct me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="joz, post: 377215, member: 70244"] jonaskp I think the basics of your ideas are good but like you already kinda figured this will be really long term. I'm thinking running a quick test with on the fly transcoding to flv and streaming at the same time. I know about some issues before hand; 1) Not all formats are suitable for streaming like this. containers can have video and audio split into 2 parts, 1 part video 1 part audio. It can also be a block video, block audio, block video etc. The last one is suitable for on the fly transcoding the first one isn't 2) I need to read chunks of the data that's already converted. I hope I can get around filelocks etc, but shouldn't really be a problem because I only need to read to stream. 3) I know flash has 2 (or maybe even more) ways of streaming. One of them (the better solution) requires a flash server, so that's a no go. If I can't get the on the fly transcoding and streaming to go there might be an alterrnative that's running a cron (or in windows task) say every hour to convert movies and save them somewhere for later streaming. This will eat HD space though but will save CPU power when streaming. This is really new for me so besides a good design I can also use some help on this streaming part. If someone has some insights I'm missing feel free to correct me. [/QUOTE]

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