saving avi files on web server

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I built an application that used to record the clients screen in an avi file. Now the client wants to save the recoding on web server in real time. i.e he want that all recording should be saved directly on web server, how can we do this?

Posted 6-Feb-11 17:05pm

lakdrit

Updated 6-Feb-11 18:55pm

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-06T17:36:00

Solution 1

If you create avi files in chunks (say a file for every 5 minutes), then you can always keep uploading the last but one avi to the web server while the current video is streaming. This saves you the trouble of directly uploading a live stream of data (which can be a little harder to do).

Posted 6-Feb-11 17:36pm

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lakdrit 6-Feb-11 23:45pm

i want to capture the presenter's screen and display it to the followers.... whatever action he is performing needs to be displayed to the end user

Nish Nishant 6-Feb-11 23:47pm

If snooping/monitoring is the goal, you might get away with uploading frequent screen-caps (as opposed to an actual video stream). Do you think that'd work for you?

lakdrit 6-Feb-11 23:55pm

thnx nishant for feeding back...

i think so... how would i send the screen captures from client system to my server... if i could save the images on server then i can then write code to convert into avi and allow the end user to view the avi using flash... is it the right direction?

Nish Nishant 6-Feb-11 23:56pm

ASP.NET makes it easy to do file uploads. Here's an old article (for ASP.NET 2.0) but the concepts should probably be same today : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479405.aspx

lakdrit 7-Feb-11 0:02am

no nishant... we cant use file upload... its open meeting module... u are the host... and other users can see what u are doin on ur screen...

Nish Nishant 7-Feb-11 0:05am

You tagged the question with ASP.NET. Perhaps that needs to be removed then?

And if you want a non-ASP.NET solution, one popular approach is to use a web service through which your app can send a file to a remote server.

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2011-02-06T17:42:00

Solution 2

You can use the FIleUpload server control as described here[^].

This would mean that the user gets a file save window where he can enter the path of the file.

Posted 6-Feb-11 17:42pm

Abhinav S