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Originally Posted by samjesse
Many stream format can be sent from the server. If the client computer associates this format with a player, then will that player fire up and play the stream.
No matter how good a stream format is, if the client does not have the correct associated player, it will not play.
And since I can not control the client machine and install a direct show filter on each one, I better not use OGG, AAC or SPX or did I read somewhere that any Flash-based player can play them?
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Some people don't have a flash player, so they are usually asked to download it and install. The same way you can ask people to install Direct Show filters.
Many users have Flash Player now, but it may change really fast, when WebM, free open source HTML 5 video format is adopted. Also note that users of iPad, iPod touch, iPhone can't use flash.
The easiest way to go is to use progressive MP3 streaming. The only thing you need to do is to use an embedded flash player for MP3 files uploaded to your hosting provider.
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Originally Posted by samjesse
and since most of the computers have a Flash-based player, then I will be safe to use any of these 3 formats?
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I haven't researched how to play OGG, AAC or SPX files with flash player.
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Originally Posted by samjesse
FlowPlayer is an application, did you mean "FlowPlayer stream"? does that mean the applications above can actually play the FlowPlayer stream?
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AFAIK there is no such thing as FlowPlayer stream. There are several flash players that can play audio and video streams from streaming servers like freeware open source Red5 as well as progressive HTTP streams that do not use any streaming servers. Each player supports different kind of streams, just read more about the player that you like.