Media File Permissions

[jacobswell]

On my website - I have uploaded in MP3 format, recordings from our church gatherings on sunday mornings. I want these to be available for visitors to the website to listen to via streaming, and also for download. When I first started to upload these files (connected to links), they worked fine - now, when I click the link of one of the files, I see a page with the Quicktime "Q" with a question mark on it. When I right-click the icon to download the file, it tries to start the download and then says that I don't have permission to download the file. I have tried changing the permissions on the actual files in the ftp tree - but even when the file has a 777 permission, it still cannot be streamed or downloaded. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks! Feel free to email me at

brian@jacobswelloncampus.com !

[gynn]

http://helpdesk.hostmonster.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=113

Additionally, the files have to be somewhere in your accout that's accessible by web users. Also, there's a nice open-source audio/video transcoder called MediaCoder (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/) that can help you get your files to a more streaming-friendly format (like flash video .flv).