Please contact the OIT Help Desk to request a streaming content directory. Please do not store streamed files in "regular" department or organization data web space as this can present problems for the AU Web backup system. Instead, OIT can create a streaming directory on a different data volume for your streamed files (see above).
Please keep in mind that copyright restrictions apply to audio and video clips included in streaming media presentations.
AU's streaming servers (stream.auburn.edu) run "RealServer 8". (See the documentation)
Chapter 4: Sources of Content of the documentation indicate that RealServer 8 streams the following content types:
However, we have not successfully tested streaming all these types from our server. Please see the TEST AREAS below.
Where pathname/filename.rm is your subdirectory of the "content" directory and the name of the file you want to play.
EXAMPLE: rtsp://stream.auburn.edu:7070/g2_samples/africag2/africa.smi and http://stream.auburn.edu:7070/ramgen/g2_samples/africag2/africa.smi play the file at /export/vol2/real/content/g2_samples/africag2/africa.smi
To play a .rm or .ra file in from your personal home page on the AU Web, reference a URL of this form:
Where ~userid/filename.rm is your OIT user ID (preceded by a ~) and the name of the file you want to play.
To embed a RealMedia file on a web page, use the code below. If you want the file to play when the page is opened (without having to press the start button), turn autostart to "true".
<embed controls="imagewindow" console="Clip1" src="rtsp://stream.auburn.edu:7070/suggjan/welcome.rm" width="320" height="240" autostart="false"> <embed controls="controlpanel" console="Clip1" src="rtsp://stream.auburn.edu:7070/suggjan/welcome.rm" width="320" height="30">
To set up an embedded live broadcast, see the sample at http://www.auburn.edu/~suggjan/realmedia/embedded_live.html.
Departments can request a live broadcast password via the HelpDesk.
Use the free encoder to create .ra and/or .rm files. Keep them small because the user will have to download them instead of streaming them. With small files this will be transparent. Create a .ram metafile for each Real file that contains a single line stating the complete URL of the corresponding .ra or .rm file.
Put this line in your .htaccess file:
AddType audio/x-pn-realmedia ram
Then create a link to the .ram file in the HTML file like
http://www.server.org/pathname/filename.ram
where www.server.org is the name of the server, pathname is the full path to the web directory, and filename.ram is the name of the .ram file.
TEST AREAS
rtsp://web8.duc.auburn.edu:29982/insy/career_video.mpeg
rtsp://web8.duc.auburn.edu:29982/suggjan/career_video.mpg
rtsp://stream.auburn.edu:8080/oit/mpg/GERUND.RM
rtsp://stream.auburn.edu/suggjan/welcome.rm
Test (realmedia.auburn.edu)
http://realmedia.auburn.edu/web99u/spenser02a.mp3
rtsp://stream.duc.auburn.edu/suggjan/theta_xi.mp3
3/7/2003 NOTE: there appears to be a difference in the way stream.auburn.edu and realmedia.duc.auburn.edu are configured... This AVI file plays differently on these servers.
created sept 2002 rtsp://stream.duc.auburn.edu:554/suggjan/videotest.avi - sound but no video
AU Study
created sept 2002 rtsp://realmedia.duc.auburn.edu:554/web99u/u9909/videotest.avi - sound and video - what's the difference?
April 2001 - http://web8.duc.auburn.edu:8080/ramgen/suggjan/aubie2000.mpg - error message - requires update not available
rtsp://stream.duc.auburn.edu:7070/suggjan/aubeagle.mov - error message - requires update not available
http://rm.auburn.edu:7070/ramgen/real2/samples/oit_presentation/play.smi
rtsp://stream.auburn.edu/auband/symphony54.rm
rtsp://stream.auburn.edu:7070/student_info/auband/colorado.rm
http://realmedia.auburn.edu:8080/ramgen/web99u/u9909/g2audio.rm
http://realmedia.auburn.edu:8080/ramgen/web99u/u9909/africag2/africa.smi