Posted by coderdan on April 24, 2009 at 5:53pm
We are looking to do 24/7 live streaming of one of our cable channels. I'm looking to have the stream hosted by a 3rd party. Anyone have any recommendations for the host?
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Streamguys
I've had several good experiences with Streamguys. http://www.streamguys.com/streamingservices/livestreaming.html
Although, in my experience the traffic for non-event-based live streaming for cable access is low. Concurrent users in the single digits, in a city of 100k+. However, it's a nice service to be able to offer, and I've seen access centers get sponsorship for their live streams from local businesses to cover the costs.
EarthChannel
I've worked with StreamGuys on a project and they're good people.
It's hard to tell from the StreamGuys site, but I think EarthChannel might be cheaper. EarthChannel offers live and OnDemand solutions for PEG channels that are very affordable and easy to use. Although you're only looking at doing live streaming right now, having a provider that can add OnDemand, Indexing, Captions, etc. down the road could prove handy.
Couple of other notes:
- They stream in .WMV format, but it's not platform specific for the viewer because of Silverlight player.
- Pricing is flat-rate, so there are no overages should one particular video go viral, or get picked up my major media
- Single channels start at $1995 per year
http://earthchannel.com
Full disclosure: I work for EarthChannel, but I'm also passionate about OpenMedia and PEG Channels.
Hope that helps!
This could be an opportunity
This could be an opportunity for stations blessed with bandwidth to collaborate with stations in areas that aren't... as well as stations that have operating funds to leverage the infrastructure at stations running on primarily capital. In Denver, we are lucky enough to have big servers and fat pipes.
The way we configure QuickTime Broadcaster to send the H.264 stream to the Wowza, the max outgoing data rate would be 250 kbits/sec per channel from a remote station.
Ann rewired our switching so that we have a usable video and audio feed going to our Mac Mini encoders so DOM's streams are back online. We were having a problem where the feed was switched to the studio or satellite feed and never switched back as well as some javascript issues, but I believe both of those have been resolved. Please take a look and let me know what you think of the quality.
http://www.denveropenmedia.org/livestream/
http://www.denveropenmedia.org/livestream/57
If you'd like to test sending a stream from Portland to our Wowza server, I'd be happy to help configure that. We can take a look at what it would cost to us to host this. The way we are wired with fiber it we don't need to run fatter pipes, but simply bump up our cap. We have Wowza running on a XServer with 2 Dual Core 2GHz Xeons and 8GB of RAM. I've attached some screen shots of the usage. Even with 10 streams running, the bandwidth and CPU usage is minimal.
I'd definately like to test
I'd definately like to test this out. Give me about a week or so to finish up the Civi cut and we can give this a trial run.
It's worth noting that
It's worth noting that QuickTime X update included in Snow Leopard makes QuickTime Broadcaster irrelevant.
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/08/quicktime-x-leaps-forward-in-snow-leopard/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/quicktime.html