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03-24-2006, 04:51 AM #1WHT Addict
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Streaming Video Hosting
The city came to us and asked us to house a server for them to stream their local community access channel 24/7.
We have not ... as far as I know, hosted a streaming server in specific for a customer like this. Can someone put me in the right direction? From my understanding for a true streaming smooth content delivery, we should be using the Windows Media Services 9, which is a strong streaming media server.
I think they are looking for more than just "progressive downloading".
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Joel
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03-24-2006, 05:17 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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You should need to buy an Unmetered Server and good bandwidth may help.
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03-24-2006, 05:28 AM #3WHT Addict
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Eeeeek, maybe I posted this in the wrong area.
We are not looking for a service nor a server. We'll be throwing the server up in our racks. We're looking for some software ideas I suppose for the server. Anyone out there currently doing some streaming web hosting for their clients? Like I said, I'm assuming Windows Media Services 9 Series would be an ideal solution. Would this software or is there software for linux based servers or would we need to throw up a box that is Windows-based? I am not looking to do the streaming through progressive downloads or through the traditional HTTP methods. What must we install?
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Joel
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03-24-2006, 05:37 AM #4Junior Guru
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You will need windows for that, but try looking at Nullsoft's NSV. Its free and works with winamp/SHOUTCast
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03-24-2006, 07:20 AM #5Account Suspended
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You will need a box for the encoder at the tv station, encode the signal to 330+/- kbps and send it over a T1 line to the internet, then to your data center. At the data center you will need a box with windows 2003 enterprise for your streaming. The streaming media server is included with 2003 enterprise.
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03-24-2006, 12:38 PM #6Junior Guru
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Dennis nailed it; I'd guess that you probably won't have a huge number of people watching the stream so you don't need a very powerful server. Just throw a lot of RAM in it so the feed never has to write to disk.
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03-25-2006, 12:20 AM #7WHT Addict
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And 2003 Enterprise is a MUST? As I think we have 2003 and 2003 Small Business, but not sure about Enterprise ...
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03-25-2006, 04:19 AM #8Newbie
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Linux Options
Originally Posted by ClineCOM
Darwin Streaming server: developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html (mov)
Real Media Server: yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialRealVideoStreaming.html (ram)
VLC 0.8.4: videolan.org/vlc/? (mpeg, wmv, asf, mpeg4, etc)
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03-25-2006, 08:24 AM #9Account Suspended
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"And 2003 Enterprise is a MUST? "
No.
We have found that it is more stable for large scale video streaming (we average 500 mbps per server for video streaming)
Although this particular customer will not require user authentication; you may have future clients that require authentication With that in mind, Enterprise is a must for several (not all) of the authentication apps.
Enterprise SPLA is only $25/month
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03-26-2006, 10:09 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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Stream FLV so you are not OS dependent.
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02-07-2007, 05:13 AM #11WHT Addict
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Archiving Streaming Videos
This is a follow up to this thread that we started quite a while back...
The City has approached us wanting to start an archiving option for their streaming video. They do not want to archive all programs that go across the live feed, but specific segments.
Are there any recommendations or suggestions on how to archive the streaming video?
For example, the live feed is working fine and can be viewed through the city's website. During City Council meetings & board of commissioner meetings, they would like to archive these up to 2 months after the meeting has occurred. They are currently archiving them locally the next day by burning them to DVDs. They would like to have them readily available on the server to be viewed from the web.
We are using a Windows 2003 Server O/S with Microsoft Windows Media Encoder.
Any suggestions?Thanks,
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02-07-2007, 08:07 AM #12Account Suspended
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If it is on a specific schedule, such as Thursday from 6 pm to 8 pm, you can outsource the transcoding. Have a company receive the feed, transcode, and then ftp the VOD file to your download server. You will have to implement a database backend to track the film clips if there are going to be a lot of them.