Just to throw it out there. If your campus has a google agreement, or doesn't need one, you should just use youtube, or vimeo, or some third party video service. Video on the web is superbly complicated and there are many groups already doing it well. Use them if you can!

Ryan


On Jun/25/12, at 5:35 AM, raffaele messuti wrote:

> I'm not currently working on it, but some months ago i did a research
> on some tools to integrate a player in a video repository. For me
> http://videojs.com seemed a simple and working solution with mp4/h264
> video, it can display native html5 <media> or flash fallback.
> 
> tricks that could help serving mp4 files:
> mp4 (encoded with ffmpeg) needs to be fixed to enable pseudo streaming
> (by moving metadata and offset information to the front of the file)
> with a tool like:
> https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart
> http://multimedia.cx/qt-faststart.c
> 
> there is also an apache module for this:
> http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2
> 
> i'll take a look at https://github.com/jronallo/sli_video
> 
> ciao
> 
> --
> raffaele