It is also not our intention to provide 'super high quality' video.

For free streams, our main concern is speed.

We would most likley look to compress the file a great deal. It is likley we would convert a 100MB DivX encoded avi file to a 50MB (or smaller) file that can be streamed over a flash player.

The idea being to save bandwidth. Ideally the stream would be sub around 750kbps or less.

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Flash itself supports multiple video formats. YT streams mostly h.264 in an mp4 container to its Flash player.
Interesting. So with some video conversion software, it should be a simple matter of embedding the player and pointing to the location of the file to stream?

That being said, the location of the streaming video file could be input into a desktop client such as VLC media player, and the same content streamed there also?