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Streaming Video

Hey all, last month I was trying to work with the eCollege tech guys in coming up with a way for us to stream video in our courses locally, instead of having to rely on Youtube or Vimeo (which I still don't think is a bad alternative). Anyway, a workaround that might be feasible for us is to actually publish the video within Captivate, and then upload the Captivate project onto the eCollege page as web content. It's quite a bit of a workaround, but it may be worth it if your SME really could benefit from video in his/her course. I am going to insert a blog post from another blog, which does a good job of laying out how to use flv + Captivate in order to get videos up in eCollege. Ignore the part about getting a service from which to stream the videos. When you get to the step where you choose a source from which to upload the video, we will upload it locally and not from a a web server, unless you are interested in FTP-ing into the eCollege servers and streaming it from th