Tightrope

I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that displaying content directly embedded on our site from our tightrope VOD is not going to look very elegant.

With that said, I'm having problems getting it done at all. If I stream the file directly to quicktime using the URL it seems to work, but whenever I embed a windows media player on my website it gets a 404 error.

So my question is, does anyone have any decent solutions for displaying WMV files from their tightrope VOD server directly on their web site? It is one of the last hurdles we are having with our site.

After much discussion and the invaluable help of kreynen, darrick and raytiley, work is well underway on a revised Workflow for video ingestion at Amherstmedia.

Essentially: As this diagram shows the mpeg2 files on our Tightrope SX4 Cablecast can be converted to various web-friendly formats via a video encoder.

Tightrope has recently announced their commitment to Open Source Software by releasing several company intiatives as open source. This significant opening of the Cablecast systems means that three of the Open Media Project's beta partners (Davis, Boston and Amherst) are steps closer to integrating Drupal with their playback system.