Reliable high speed live video streaming for Webcasting and more.
Streaming video hosting on dedicated streaming servers is the fastest, richest and most powerful way to deliver your message. Streaming video has changed the way we experience news, promote web site content, and conduct meetings. Windows Media Streaming Hosting Services keeps visitors longer.
Simply host your videos on the streaming server and connect to them from your regular web site or use our streaming server for both your web site and streaming Web site. Step up to dedicated Windows media server hosting for more space, speed and power. With dedicated streaming media hosting you get On-Demand streaming, Intrusion detection, firewall, dual Xeon processors, RAID drive system and unlimited streams.
Streaming Media hosting makes CD-quality audio and near-broadcast-quality video available in real time to homes, businesses, and PDAs worldwide, effectively changing the way we conduct meetings,
experience news, listen to the radio, and watch movies. There is no file to download or
take up space on the user's hard drive, resulting in a streamlined format that allows truly
interactive streaming, on-demand media.
Windows Media, Microsoft’s set of digital media components and features for personal computers and consumer appliances, can deliver high-quality digital media across the Internet and corporate intranets. Its innovative digital media platform enables you to develop powerful applications, create high-quality multimedia content, and reliably distribute your content. Microsoft’s incorporation of Windows Media Player into the Windows operating system creates a wide user base for this format.
An authoring software program, called an encoder, is required for the creation of the streaming media files. The Windows Media encoder on Fpweb.net's Streaming Media Servers can source from files that have the following file name extensions:
| Encoder File Extensions | |
|---|---|
|
"wave" sound files, used primarily for short midi sequences or interface sound effects |
|
"Windows Media Audio" sound files, used for compressed music files, similar to .mp3 |
|
MP3 sound files are the most popular online format for compressed music files |
|
"Windows Media Video" files, used for compressed video files, similar to .mpg |
|
"MPEG" video files, used for compressed video files for online streaming media |
|
Yet another compressed video format, but isn’t nearly as wide-spread on the web as .mpg |
|
AVI files are typically uncompressed video "source files" that comes directly from a recording device |
|
"Bitmaps" are uncompressed pixels used for images - not recommended for use on a web site |
|
JPEG files use "lossy" compression algorithms to keep file size low, making them optimal for the web |