[vox] Streaming flash videos yourself (no YouTube or Google Video needed)

[jim stockford]

On Feb 12, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> So I've been putting up videos of our new baby on my website
> (on a colocated host with tons of free disk that allows gobs of 
> bandwidth),
seems okay to me.

> but haven't liked that I'm merely throwing up "<a href>" links to the 
> AVI
> files I pull off of my digital camera.
how come?

> These days, websites often have videos embedded as Flash objects from
> sites like YouTube (mostly) and Google Video (far less often).
what's good about that? (serious question)

> I'd rather
> not have to upload my videos to one of these services, and embed their 
> junk
> on my site, when I've got the space to do it.
amen!

> After two short Google searches, I found this article:
>   "Video and Audio Streaming with Flash and Open Source Tools"
>   http://klaus.geekserver.net/flash/streaming.html
> Sounds perfect!  Hopefully I'll have some time to look into it and get 
> it
> going on my baby photos/video pages. :)
I wish i understood why it's worth the trouble--how come
putting videos up on a web page isn't good enough?
(serious question--why bother with flash?)

> -bill!
jim