What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?

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What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?
by Gerek Allen on Aug 24, 2010 at 5:24:45 am

Hello,

I'm a newbie to the video streaming world and I'm looking for honest advice. I have my own cloud server for my websites but I want to start hosting and streaming my videos from my server and not leave it in the hands of YouTube or anyone else where I don't have any control.

I know there's a few options to host and stream videos and one of them is waiting for the entire file to download before it plays. That just cant happen.

What are the pros using to stream their own videos on their servers? Any advice would be appreciated...

Gerek

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Re: What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?
by Greg Ondera on Aug 24, 2010 at 4:35:39 pm

Allan is giving you outstanding advice. I recently created a closed membership "YouTube" for surgeons at http://www.surgeontoday.org and although I won't let you in the site unless you are a surgeon or create medical videos specifically, I went through the process of creating my own site from scratch.

So the first thing I would ask is this: do you want to just show videos, thus you may only need to show them through progressive downloads, or do you want to stream, which is a live event, and are you wanting to produce the streaming aspect of it? Progressive downloads are simpler, and mostly you have to concern yourself with the pipeline of the host and the type of video player you incorporate. Allan's recommendation is excellent; look into an OVP.

Second piece of advice is if you are constructing the site yourself, you will need a video player, and I use a Flash Player on my site using H.264 mpg4 codecs, although Flash Player does not play on iPhones and iPads. I constructed it before the war between Apple and Adobe. I will soon construct an HTML5 version of the player, to roll back to the Flash Player when it detects a browser that isn't HTML5 ready. So whatever service you hook up with, you might want to take that into consideration. Not everyone has HTML5.

All this being said, unless you are very handy at working with writing code I would go with the OVP.

Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org

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Re: What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?
by Greg Ondera on Aug 24, 2010 at 6:44:21 pm

This is great. Thanks. Since my site is CMS intensive using Expression Engine, and I had a good Flash Player made for it, I wonder how it would work with the existing set-up?

Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org

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Re: What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?
by Greg Ondera on Aug 24, 2010 at 10:31:46 pm

Alan-- Thanks! I may give you a call tomorrow. Seems like you are East Coast and it is past 6PM there. I looked at the page source and in my cursory glance it seems like the player is embedded there and not a separate application. I will drill down into the other site you mentioned.

One thing I am looking to do is to provide the HTML 5 viewers a breakout box when they click onto a video, that goes across the browser, and then recedes when the video is over, so they can see the advertising on the sides.

Have you seen this site? http://videojs.com/

Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org

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Re: What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?
by Greg Ondera on Aug 24, 2010 at 11:45:48 pm

Wow, that is so cool. See the world is made of magnets. Go ahead and join my site in the 3rd category membership if you can take the blood and guts. I understand about adaptive bitrate. Real made an attempt to deal with that and streaming through a CDN will use that too. I can understand how your guys will want to implement it though, otherwise CDNs won't touch it, I imagine. Well, I am not too concerned about that at this point and am interested in the technology. If my site ever gets really big, or if I want to stream from my site, I will have to think about adaptive bitrate. But for now...

Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org

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Re: What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?
by Greg Ondera on Aug 25, 2010 at 3:36:39 pm

Allan -- I am very impressed with ProVDN. I'm going to use it for the production side of my business at http://www.plexus.tv.

Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org

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Re: What's Step 1 In The Video Streaming World?
by Gerardo Flores on Aug 29, 2010 at 5:54:08 am

Hello guys

I could resist to ask you something as you have such a interesting conversation here.

of course I can ask in another post but I think you guys are the best person to ask.
I m trying to make a online learning site
the site is done

but the programer doesn't seem to be handy in video encoding or at list he is not much
cooperative ..

part of the learning its gonna be a teacher class ( this is a video where a teacher explain all the grammar and so on ) and another part are gonna be some games (in flash)

the videos ( classes ) are mostly videos but with some interactions to make the users
be part of them and not just watching ...
in the site the developer make a admin where I can upload videos ( flv, mov, mp4 etc )
the problem is that the result file that I have it is a folder like this

and I am not able to upload to the site

a friend of my make a TPF user to upload files but Im lost on it...

ok this is my todays war

but reading your post and watching those interesting links

I got some questions for you

-if I have my videos in flv or swf; can they be played in a HTML5 ??? in the case of videos for example.
-If I will like my videos to be play in HTML5; all the coding of the site must change or just the video
format?
-how much cost the all the conversion to HTML5?

Guys
Lot of success with your business
best regards

Gerardo

BTW interesting surgery site

learning after effects

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