Hello Everyone,
A company I intern for has asked me to figure out how to stream our movies online. I'm looking for basic answers to my questions:
We want this to run through our existing webpage
We have about 20 feature length films that we're thinking about streaming online in a pay-to-rent transaction.
Each film will be encoded in h.264 and play through flash player.
Each film will probably end up being around 600-700 mbs encoded at 800 kbps
We expect around 100 viewers to be viewing films simoltaneously during peak hours.
We'll probably need around 150mbs of bandwidth (to start)
We are a Mac based office
I'm wondering how to host all of the media reliably... should we purchase dedicated media service, like flvhosting, where you can just upload your media, and then embed it on our webpage? Or should we actually rent a dedicated server, and have a piece of hardware in the office that streams to our clients?
What's the cheapest and most simple route to take?
We also need to allow ourselves room to grow, as within 2 - 3 years we are planning on aquiring 100+ films.
Thanks so much to any advice anyone can provide. It'll be a great help!
A company I intern for has asked me to figure out how to stream our movies online. I'm looking for basic answers to my questions:
We want this to run through our existing webpage
We have about 20 feature length films that we're thinking about streaming online in a pay-to-rent transaction.
Each film will be encoded in h.264 and play through flash player.
Each film will probably end up being around 600-700 mbs encoded at 800 kbps
We expect around 100 viewers to be viewing films simoltaneously during peak hours.
We'll probably need around 150mbs of bandwidth (to start)
We are a Mac based office
I'm wondering how to host all of the media reliably... should we purchase dedicated media service, like flvhosting, where you can just upload your media, and then embed it on our webpage? Or should we actually rent a dedicated server, and have a piece of hardware in the office that streams to our clients?
What's the cheapest and most simple route to take?
We also need to allow ourselves room to grow, as within 2 - 3 years we are planning on aquiring 100+ films.
Thanks so much to any advice anyone can provide. It'll be a great help!
