What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming video? Where would you start?
Edit: Let's assume it is not real-time or live streaming, just canned videos.
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Edit: Let's assume it is not real-time or live streaming, just canned videos.
A combination of Wowza Media Server and the open source Flowplayer flash application do a great job of streaming archived video from a website. The City of Nanaimo is using these tools along with Adobe's Flash Media Live Encoder and ffmpeg for their council video archives (example)
For IIS you can install the IIS Media Services addin.
Here is a tutorial on streaming with Apache: Video Streaming With Apache
IIS 7 offers Smooth Streaming which is Microsoft’s implementation of HTTP-based adaptive streaming. For more details, check this Smooth Streaming FAQ & a step-by-step implementation guide
I am not sure why so many people are pointing you to streaming servers, what you are looking to achieve certainly does not require a streaming server deploy.
You can achieve what you'd like to do with most webservers.
Heck - IIS 6.0 can do this if you add the MIME types :)
nginx - http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpFlvStreamModule apache - http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2006/07/11/mod_flvx/