I do a fair amount of work pseudo-streaming video using the flv_streaming module in Lighttpd. However, it’s a bit of a pain to use Lighttpd for Streaming and apache for content serving. You either have to run the two on separate servers or use a non-standard port for Lighttpd. But that seems to be changing. I have come across a couple pseudo-streaming modules for Apache. One if for streaming FLV and the other is for streaming H264. Here’s some info on using both:
mod_flvx: http://flowplayer.org/forum/5/14679
mod_h264: http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2
I have compiled the mod_flvx into Apache, but I have yet to try it out in production. I am excited about the h.264 streaming. My biggest complaint with using FLV files converted with ffmpeg is the low quality compared to vp6 encoded FLV files. ffmpeg doesn’t support vp6 given that it’s a commercial codec. But h.264 is comparable in quality to vp6, making it an attractive alternative.
