What does it take to stream videos from my server ? I heard that we need to install some software on the server ? do you know any ? Or i need to buy a streaming server ?
if you want real streaming you'll need software like Flash media server. If you want "streaming" like on youtube for example you need to convert the movies to flv format - this can be done with the opensource ffmpeg and then display the movies via flash player - there are many free flash players that will do the job. NOTE that using ffmpeg on shared server ain't a good idea - most probably you'll be suspended due to aggressive cpu usage.