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Old 08-13-2012, 04:05 PM  
mikesouth
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unless you need live streaming Id say lighttpd would suit you just fine. if its a small site bandwidth probably isnt an issue anyway.

Medium term I would be looking at MPEG-DASH but you wont need a media server for that because apache can do it although Id bet lighttpd will also support it. When it becomes readily available it will solve LOTS of problems.

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encode once play on anything

adaptive streaming

streams in segements that are not stored so much simpler to protect your streams from being ripped. plus simple to insert ads between segments

streams over HTTP and allows future and past seeking

supported by adobe, microsoft, apple, sony, netflix, wowza and most everyone else except google.

Standardized.

Im watching it closely
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