How to Build a Video Hosting Site on Your Windows 2003 Server

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Log on to your server with Administrator privilege.

   By default, video files uploaded by users and encoded *.flv files will be stored in this folder. , In this demo site, we use Microsoft Access database to simplify the configuration.
   
   If you would like to use other databases, for example, SQL Server or Oracle, you can open the file db.inc and modify the database provider and connection string yourself., Change the current directory to "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\fvec" and register MyRequest.dll using regsvr32.exe.
   
   This will install a component for ASP to handle file uploading.
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   Step 2: Download Flash Video Encoder and install it on your Web server.

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   Step 3: Find the file fvec-asp-demo.zip file in the installation folder of Flash Video Encoder for Adobe Flash (Command-Line Version); Open it with WinZip and extract the files to a sub-folder under your wwwroot folder

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   Step 4: for example

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   Step 5: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\fvec.

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   Step 6: If you have changed the installation folder of Flash Video Encoder for Adobe Flash (Command-Line Version)

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   Step 7: you should open file fvec.asp and change the path to the correct one.

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   Step 8: Assign "full control" permission to account "IUSR_COMPUTERNAME" for folder"c:\inetpub\wwwroot\fvec\files".

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   Step 9: Assign "full control" permission to account "IUSR_COMPUTERNAME" for file "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\fvec\fvec.mdb".

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    Step 10: Open Command Prompt.

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