webgyrl Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 I just switched two sites to TCH and so far have been quite blown away by the control panel, support and the service overall. I have a few other sites that I'd like to switch over, but my main concern is the ability to stream Real Audio files. The main site is a site for me (I'm a recording artist/songwriter). I have samples and full downloads of my original material available. My current host supports streaming Real Audio and I set that up by having a "realaudio" folder with this type of link: rtsp://frampton.siteprotect.com:1554/inmotionmanagement/realaudio/Natalie_Brown_IMD.rm On my site, I point the file to: http://www.natalie-brown.com/realaudio/Nat...e_Brown_IMD.ram Do you employ Real Server 8.0 streaming as opposed to http streaming? You can see the entire page to understand more about what I need here. I don't have video up yet, but will want to have the ability to host Real Video and possibly Quicktime video in the near future. Thanks again Nat Quote
TCH-Andy Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 Hi, You can add video and audio streaming - not a problem. The only thing it will do is eat up your bandwidth, and with a voice as nice as yours - lots of bandwidth Andy Quote
webgyrl Posted July 5, 2003 Author Posted July 5, 2003 Thanks Andy- I've been averaging 8-10 GB a month. I guess I'd be safe going with the Deluxe Plan to start for the www.natalie-brown.com site. What happens if I go over the alloted monthly GB transfer for thay plan? Can I buy additional GB's to add to my plan if I need more on a per GB basis? Do you know if that Real Audio server is a dedicated one? Hope you had fun sailing! Nat Quote
webgyrl Posted July 5, 2003 Author Posted July 5, 2003 What is the difference between HTTP streaming and dedicated streaming? Is there that big of a difference? How does using HTTP streaming change how you set up the files on the host side? Quote
boxturt Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 (edited) I don't know how big a difference there is but this has always worked for me. (Real Producer Basic will generate the code as well, but I don't know if the program is still available or not) Set up your .rm and .ram as usual and use the following for a pop-up player: <HTML> <HEAD> <meta name="rnpagelayout" content="pop-up"> <meta name="rnserverpath" content="C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\"> <meta name="rnmediafile" content="My_Song.rm"> <meta name="rnmetafile" content="My_Song.ram"> <meta name="description" content=""> <meta name="keywords" content=""> <TITLE>My_Song</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF"> <! HTML INSERT BEGIN /!> <! -- Caution: Do not make changes to this comment section. Any local file references that appear here are automatically updated when uploaded to a remote web server. Alterations to this section or any file references listed below or contained in the associated RAM or RPM metafiles may cause errors when publishing your web page to a remote server. These values should not be altered. -- pagelayout="pop-up" -- serverpath="C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\" -- mediafile="My_Song.rm" -- metafile="My_Song.ram" /!> <A HREF="My_Song.ram"><H1>My_Song</H1></A> <! HTML INSERT END /!> </BODY> Hope this helps. Your songs are most enjoyable, thanks for sharing P.S. It also seems to work by just calling the .ram file, without using all the other code. Edited July 5, 2003 by boxturt Quote
TCH-Rick Posted July 5, 2003 Posted July 5, 2003 From what I have been able to gather from reading various sources on http streaming vs dedicated streaming both should work fine. Dedicated streaming is more efficient in use of bandwidth and can tailor the output to the type of connection the user has. Http streaming would require separate files for Hi-bandwidth and lo-bandwidth connections if you wanted to provide that. Http should be fine if there are only a few streams going out at any one time. Dedicated streaming would be necessary if there are large numbers of streams going out at once time or if the stream is of a live event (such as internet radio broadcasts.) Quote
webgyrl Posted July 7, 2003 Author Posted July 7, 2003 The streams would be 24kbs and I'd also offer some Mp3 downloads at 128K. I guess my main concern is bandwidth consumption. I have a fair amount of traffic already at that site and expect it to double in the next year. I think 12-15GB might be too small an amount. What is the price breakdwon for adding more GB of bandwidth if I need it? The other host I was considering for that site in particualr offers a 30GB per month pckage at $96 per year. I saw that your highest package is 20GB. I will transfer all the other sites here though as they don't require as much bandwidth. I'd like to have all my sites here ideally, but it's just the one site that concerns me the most when it comes to data transfer. Quote
leezard Posted July 7, 2003 Posted July 7, 2003 1GB Bandwidth / Monthly $2.50 thats from the hosting plans page, it's way down on the bottom Quote
webgyrl Posted July 7, 2003 Author Posted July 7, 2003 Thanx leezard... I didn't look down that far! Duh on me! Quote
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