AV Streaming

[AainaA]

Now this is a question for all the experts in AV Streaming., or experts with knowledge in AV Streaming.

I am contemplating getting a system for my next project - {I hate it when I get all these ideas}.. anyway,

• What's the best system to get for Audio/Video Streaming?
• Bandwidth
• Semi-Ded, or Ded, or Managed?
• Which companies offer them?
• Would experts have to be hired to manage it?
• Software needed?

Video streaming should be in the likes of Real or Flash

Thank you

[zkiller]

personally, i would go with windows media files over anything from real. i have yet to see a real media video that was good quality. another option to consider would be quicktime.

[Praetor]

Quicktime is uber inefficient and plain silly wasteful (the cost of being somewhat standardized but an excessive cost at that ... a 100MB QT file is really about 15MB of MPEG4).

I agree with the WMV As for real......

[zkiller]

i don't know, i have some pretty high res good quality quicktime vids that aren't all to big in size. however i do agree that the compression isn't as good as wmv or mpeg or any of the newer codecs such as divx or xvid, but i didn't think it was that bad.

btw, that pic priceless and all to true!

[AainaA]

Euh... I was referring to hosting streaming flash/real videos... any idea?

[StephanieCordray]

You're going to need a lot of bandwidth. That's a given. How much will depend on how many files of what size plus traffic. As to which to choose from your list, that will depend on how ambitious you are.

[zkiller]

Originally Posted by AainaA

Euh... I was referring to hosting streaming flash/real videos... any idea?

and we were answering one of the first questions you ask!

Originally Posted by AainaA

• What's the best system to get for Audio/Video Streaming?

but yes, like suz said, depending on the scale of the site you will need a lot of transfer and will there for most likely be best off on a dedicated server solution.

[StephanieCordray]

Originally Posted by zkiller

and we were answering one of the first questions you ask!


but yes, like suz said, depending on the scale of the site you will need a lot of transfer and will there for most likely be best off on a dedicated server solution.

I agree but it really does depend on the scale of the site. I kind of got the feeling that she would need a managed server if she goes the dedicated route and I'd hate to see her pay those prices if she doesn't need to. I haven't seen any services I'd trust that charge less than $400/month for a managed one.

[AainaA]

Originally Posted by zkiller

and we were answering one of the first questions you ask!


but yes, like suz said, ......

I didn't know Stephanie and SuZ are one and the same personality

[AainaA]

Originally Posted by StephanieCordray

I agree but it really does depend on the scale of the site. I kind of got the feeling that she would need a managed server if she goes the dedicated route and I'd hate to see her pay those prices if she doesn't need to. I haven't seen any services I'd trust that charge less than $400/month for a managed one.

I'm more likely look into a Terrabyte solution so to speak for the bandwidth, and yes, likely a managed server that is capable of streaming video. What about server-side software?