Serving a movie

[Bosco]

I have just purchased a X Server 10.4 MAC OS. I am trying to serve a movie (product demo) from the apple server to the internet. I placed the file in Library\Webserver\Documents\Demo_1.mov
Inside the network it starts to play right away, but outside the network it downloads the whole movie before it start to play. It is a 18 MB file. Is there a way to speed this up for the internet? My upload speed is 800KB.

[mikemchargue]

With such limited upstream bandwidth, the only way to speed viewing for people on the Internet is to encode your movies at a lower resolution, lower bitrate or both. How many simutaneous viewers do you expect? Your not going to be able to service many on 800kbps.

[Bosco]

Well, the movie will be serving, hopefully more than 100 people at any one time. I created a link directly to the apple server of

http://www.prolinqdemos.com/Demo_1.mov

What kind of bandwidth would i need to serve this movie appropriately?

Thanks for replying

Bosco

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