How to set up video streaming like youtube?

I am using the highest bitrate and the videos take a while to start. I would like to set it up so it loads fast like youtube. Is there something I can do? I don't care about the cost I just want my members to be happy.

 I think that would depend on the power of your server.

Before you upgrade; have you checked your site on another "faster" computer on a "faster" internet?

Using the highest bit rate also would slow the video playback.

Just how long does it take to load? Can you PM me a link to one so I can test the load time?

Try testing your site for speed.

http://gtmetrix.com/

I tried to tackle this a few years ago with an old site that is now offline.

Biggest concern for me with the video playback, was not having the ability with dolphin uploaded videos to skip forwards through the video without first rendering it for playback. 

Not a prob if you host short clips, but my vids were much longer...

I came up with a loose integration between Dolphin and Clipshare...

Dolphin running on one server for the members front end, and clipshare hosting and streaming videos from another server so as not to slow browsing experience down.

Clipshare also allowed me to ftp upload video files, as well as run lighttpd for video streaming without rendering... saved on loads of bandwidth doing this also!

It worked but was difficult to setup, lots of customising between the two.

Would be great if Dolphin allowed in video 'skipping' without having to render the whole vid first.

In all years me, beeing working on server, I never managed to get pseudo streaming to work = to forward video....

I just never did. Was looking for solutions, but none worked for me.

Currently:

apache2 on "strong server" (32GB memory, AMD 8 core processor)

Maybe here is someone who could help me out.

Hope dies last. 

 It used to work before the HTML5 player.

example, 

http://floridabeachwebcams.com/m/videos/view/Milk-Inc-vs-Ian-Van-Dahl-Livin-A-Lie-In-The-Castle-Telejunkie-Remix-mpg

You may want to read this: http://gingertech.net/2009/08/19/jumping-to-time-offsets-in-videos/

Some interesting things here: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/building-custom-controls-for-html5-videos

Here is a three part tutorial that covers HTML5 video and skinning: http://www.digitaria.com/news/blogs/html5-video-skinning-tutorial-part-1

 I used clipshare before I found dolphin. Clipshare was really buggy. But I am interested in lighttpd. How do I set up lighttpd in dolphin to stream the videos?

... Wait a minute, Is lighttpd just a webserver or is it for streaming videos? I already have apache with nginx stacked on top.

Don't know.

it was quite a few years ago when I was using it, the tech has probably moved on quite a bit now I should think

 @newton27

The video from link above is not working as I want to.

It can not be played from point that has't been already downloaded. So this is not what I'm talking about.

 [edit]What?

I found out what you mean.

Flash Video player can request any part of the Flash Video file starting at a specified key-frame. For example, Google Video, YouTube, and Bitgravity support progressive downloading and can seek to any part of the video before buffering is complete. The server-side part of this "HTTP pseudo-streaming" method is fairly simple to implement, for example inPHP, as an Apache module, or using lighttpd.

What threw me off is the files download so fast on my end, like seconds, so that is not an issue; in the old player.

The new HTML5 player sucks in this area.

 Mayki, for some reason the HTML5 player will not do "that" in Chrome for me, in IE it works fine.

Try this video, 

http://floridabeachwebcams.com/m/videos/view/Robyn-Hang-with-Me

you can select any section of the song, with out it downloading, and it will play fine.

@newton27

...and it works in Firefox as well.

I've noticed this behaviour some time ago. It is odd why scrubbing is not working in Chrome.

Greetings

Mayki

 @Mayki, I noticed this problem when the HTML5 module was released. It has never worked for me in any version of Chrome.