Alexander Staubo wrote Check out Microsoft's Advanced Streaming Format (ASF). It supports anything from audio to video to PowerPoint files. Microsoft includes a real-time encoder with their free streaming tools. Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/.
For information on serving live/on-demand content, check out http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/host.asp.
Hm. Even if their encoders worked on anything useful (no, I will not, by choice, run an NT server in a different country - way too much of a maintenance headache), it looks like the encoders are all GUI based. Not really useful - I'm dealing with a variety of on-demand content. I can see an easy path is going to be to wrap the earlier mentioned quicktime libraries into a python module... Anthony