Howtoforge.com posted a great article yesterday on creating a Youtube-like streaming video site using Debian linux running lighttpd as the web server and FlowPlayer to play the flash-encoded videos…

Click here to see the article

Some companies and webhosts have began to offer this service, but this is the first time i’ve seen it described from top to bottom using all free components. I have personally used lighttpd, Flowplayer, and ffmpeg to set up a similar system and found that they are all robust and feature packed softwares. This is definitely worth your time if you are a software developer attempting to set up a site with Youtube-like functionality.

I prefer Apache to lighthttpd, however, and it’s a shame that there is no equivalent mod to lighttp’s mod_flv_streaming on apache (as far as I know). Some developers have come up with php-only workarounds like this one, however, although I haven’t tried any of them.

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