video site

[jacoflash]

I am in the process of starting a website for a client that wants video clips to stream (preferable not preload at all). How should I get started with this? Also there will be lots of these mc's and so I would probably make use of a database? which technology's must I learn, also which programming languages? must I use coldFusion with XML? or other programs? how would I get started on this? can you stream video clips with xml or how is it done in mx?


thanx in advance

[Jonathan_B]

Hi.
This is a Flash video forum, not really a database development forum. But you can find a lot of those that will have information related to what you are asking.
If you encode video into Flash, you can easily post it and it will stream via http (technically it's a progressive download) if it's encoded at the appropriate bitrate for the viewer. You do not need any special video server and it will work with any backend configuration.
In addition to being a software company that has Flash video encoding products, we also have a video library that uses all Flash video. We put this up before Flash MX came out and the video previews still use Flash 3-6 video, as opposed to the newer and much higher quality MX video (the plus is that the previews play in any Flash player versions 3-6). However, the exact same principles apply to using MX video SWFs.
Our site is running off a Linux server in php.
You can view it here:
http://www.wildform.com/videolibrary/index.php

jb

[Wheels]

I like to use XML text files that I create by hand, although they can also be generated by a server side process like PHP.

As far as what you'll need to learn:

Some simple XML formatting and the Flash XML object - specifically parsing to arrays.

You can then assign the variables to your buttons dynamically with functions.