Streaming video integration I'm looking for a solution for streaming video in Drupal 6. Ideally, I'd like to be able to have users upload video via a content type, convert and encode it, then have the published version be linked to a streaming server (like DSS). I want to host the streaming server myself and ideally I'd like it to be free.

I've never heard of it, but it seems there is also something called Kaltura that might work.

Anyone have experience in this realm? Know of something simple I could integrate?

The best I option I can see so far seems to be to display the video via jw player and write something custom to upload videos to the streaming server from those that are uploaded via drupal.
I have used Navicast (but not a free) platform to develop a webtv module for Drupal 6. It is based on Output APIs. There are few limitation with the platform APIs that I reported. Navicast Studio a desktop application build around their input APIs used to upload video and adjust video properties. The platform has built in tagging system to categorize videos. Comments on video contents is also managed by the platform.

I used it with Flow Player API module.

I developed Web TV around my own entities.