(1) from [log in to unmask] Mike, I can't say for sure what is causing your problems in QT, but I CAN recommend using a pretty inexpensive program called VisualHub to do your H.264 hinting encodes. This is what we use here at GVSU with a Darwin Streaming Server (the open source version of QTSS) and I've not had a file that failed to stream in a long time. -- John Beals Assistant Director GVSU LRC ++++++++++ (2) from [log in to unmask] Hello Mike, This might help... When you're creating the hinted movie in QT Pro, make sure you have set the hint exporter settings to hint both the video track and the audio track. Do File > Export... Select Export: Movie to Hinted Movie and click Options Make sure both the H.264 Video and MPEG-4 Audio Sound boxes are checked (as well as Make Movie Self-Contained) Click OK then save the hinted movie and copy it to the streaming server. I've successfully streamed h.264 videos with the process you described so if this suggestion doesn't help please contact me off-list and we can compare settings. Thanks, mike ******************** Mike Conner Curricular Technology Specialist Grinnell College [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++ (3) from [log in to unmask] Mike, I've asked my digital media expert, Jarom McDonald, about your VLC issue. Here is his response: The VLC problem is most likely due to the fact that they're running VLC 0.8.6h, but don't yet have Leopard 10.5.4 installed (so they should either upgrade Leopard or downgrade VLC). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harold H. Hendricks Humanities Technology and Research Support Center 1163A JFSB Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602-6703 Tel: (801) 422-6448 Fax: (801) 422-0304 ++++++++++ (4) from [log in to unmask] > You can't use VLC in newer Macs. See Chris Breen's article on this in > Mac World's Mac 911: > <http://www.macworld.com/article/133147/2008/04/wrestledvdregion.html> The statement above is rather misleading. VLC works fine with newer and older Macs, and plays video just as it was designed to do. The problem for those of us who want to watch foreign language DVDs begins with the content conspiracy's Region Coding system, and ends with the type of DVD drives (Matsushita) used in many Macs, along with many PCs. These drives prevent the software solutions that are possible with other drives. VLC neither causes nor solves the problem with these drives. VLC can be part of a software solution for other DVD drives. This is all covered at the URL provided above, particularly in the comments section. Derek Derek Roff Language Learning Center Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885 Internet: [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++++ (3) from *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technology (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************