Streaming Video (similar to Youtube)

[Jamiek94]

Clipbucket, phpmotion.

[Hyperz]

VP8 is close to h.264 but not as good yet quality- and performance wise. But it is an open source format so you don't have to worry about royalties etc.

Also: http://astrange.ithinksw.net/perian/...unny_480p.webm
It'll play in your VLC and in Flash if you give it a try .

[FShoppe]

Very interesting. Sounds like video streaming integration will be easier than first anticipated.. Still much to do.

A player is one thing, automated encoding of video files is another.

[Hyperz]

I recommend using MP4 and WebM.
MP4 is supported by all major browsers and WebM is set to become the new defacto in the coming years I hope.

If you use MP4 and an HTML5 player (with a fallback to a flash player for unsupported browsers), then your videos will be streamable to mobile devices as well, something lacking from current file hosting sites with video streaming. In addition MP4 files become relatively small when converted from avi's and such. Example I convert a video on my desktop from a 1.5GB avi to a 121MB MP4.

I think you're confusing codecs with container formats.

[FShoppe]

As for avi files,

Although it is not strictly 'streamable' you can actually stream it using players like VLC.