Streaming Media Services
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UW Technology provides streaming media servers for UW staff, faculty, courses and departments. RealSystem, QuickTime Streaming, and Windows Media formats are supported. More about this service...
The following internal pages and external sites are provided to assist users with content creation, delivery concepts, and streaming technologies.
Getting Started
Activate Your Streaming Media
Directory
Before you can stream, you must activate a streaming media
directory on Homer.
How to Create Streaming
Media
An overview of the complex task of producing, digitizing,
encoding, and delivering streaming media.
How-to Guides
How to Stream a QuickTime
Movie
Basic step-by-step instructions for streaming a QuickTime
file.
How to Stream a RealMedia
Clip
Basic step-by-step instructions for streaming a RealMedia
file.
How to Stream a Windows
Media File
Basic step-by-step instructions for streaming a Windows Media
file.
Software Guides
Here are some guides to producing media provided by the vendors of three leading streaming media product lines.
These guides are located on the vendor sites.
Microsoft Windows Media - Zero to HD in 60
Seconds
Step-by-step instructions for repurposing existing HD content
using Windows Media Video 9 Series.
Creating Your First Movie with Windows Movie
Maker
Information on how to use Windows Movie Maker for video
creation.
RealNetworks - Production Guides & Tutorials
The definitive guides for creating content for RealPlayer,
covering SMIL 2.0, RealAudio, RealVideo, RealText, RealPix,
Flash, bandwidth, presentation URLs, and much more.
QuickTime
Tutorials
Comprehensive tutorials for everything from media creation to
delivery using QuickTime Pro.
Miscellaneous
Streaming Media URL
References
The URLs associated with content in your streaming media
directory.
How to Test Streaming
Media
Instructions on how to test and troubleshoot your streaming
media files.
How to Fix File and Directory
Permissions
Learn the right Unix commands to use to fix the permissions
of your streaming media directory and the files within
it.
Streaming Media Support
References
UW resources that provide some support for streaming media
projects.
DigitalWell
DigitalWell is a UW service for hosting and organizing
streaming media resources. You can find out more about the
service and contact the team for an account or more
information at their site linked above.
