I recently went through some pains to play with setting up a streaming server with Icecast/PHP-shout (both GPL). Icecast also has a nice Ices broadcast component that works well with Icecast (but did not stream Theoris at the time I played with it). The notes I took are a bit scattered, but may be helpful. You can read them at: http://www.radkeland.org/setting-streaming-webserver-fedora-core-6 Josh admin at lctn.org wrote: > Recently, I set up Darwin streaming server, with the intent to serve up > mp4 files. I couldn't get anything to stream (my content), and found I > needed to create a hint file, using Quicktime Pro(correct me here if I am > wrong). The process takes hours to complete with a full 3 hours of video, > and so far has not finished successfully. I am used to using windows > encoder and media server, which is very easy, and straight forward. I > would like to implement an open sources solution, but this has been a real > pain. Am I misunderstanding the need for this process? if not, is there a > better open source solution that does not require a hint file. Streaming, > not downloading is what I am hoping to accomplish. > > Raymond > >