digitalpencil
Programmer
Hi guys,
I've been working on an FLV hub, as it were, for a CCTV company demonstrating their mobile video capture technology, e.g. footage captured from race-cars, bikes etc. Despite there already being a large volume of video content they wish aired, I have up until this moment opted for the prog. d/l method. This has been acheived by breaking hours of video down into 5 min chunks and delivering the video sequentially through a video component using netsream/netconnection and is navigated by a video-thumb scrollpane. As this is all progressive, it is not particularly dynamic and now that they've given me another 8 hours of footage to add, I'm beginning to consider the merits of a streamed service.
Therefore my question is this. Should I opt for a streaming service provider or an FMS for the server? Given they are a CCTV firm, I would also liek to consider the possiblity of piping live video into the hub from various feeds, allow the user to select between them.
I've looked at VitalStream's offerings and they seem to be rather expensive in comparison to just buying an FMS and seem to only offer either on-demand video or live, not a combination of the two.. Is anyone familiar with this area, understands the pros/cons of each?
How easy is this to set-up a dynamic system? I would ideally like the system to be automated, generating video thumbnails and the linkage to the videos on its own, requring less technical expertise to interface with/update.
Also, how arduos would the process be of converting my current system which, is built around progresssive download to be capable of all this?
How much information in this area is available online? I've briefly looked at livedocs on subjects such as live-video switchers etc. Can anyone offer any other good links to sites covering these topics?
If anyone can offer any advice in this area, I would be greatly appreciative.
I'm fairly new to all of this and it has been a continual learning curve thus far, so I'm reluctant to butcher my progress but am willing to do so if this is the best option.
For your reference, there is a test system uploaded to our servers currently at:
Thanks,
Dave
I've been working on an FLV hub, as it were, for a CCTV company demonstrating their mobile video capture technology, e.g. footage captured from race-cars, bikes etc. Despite there already being a large volume of video content they wish aired, I have up until this moment opted for the prog. d/l method. This has been acheived by breaking hours of video down into 5 min chunks and delivering the video sequentially through a video component using netsream/netconnection and is navigated by a video-thumb scrollpane. As this is all progressive, it is not particularly dynamic and now that they've given me another 8 hours of footage to add, I'm beginning to consider the merits of a streamed service.
Therefore my question is this. Should I opt for a streaming service provider or an FMS for the server? Given they are a CCTV firm, I would also liek to consider the possiblity of piping live video into the hub from various feeds, allow the user to select between them.
I've looked at VitalStream's offerings and they seem to be rather expensive in comparison to just buying an FMS and seem to only offer either on-demand video or live, not a combination of the two.. Is anyone familiar with this area, understands the pros/cons of each?
How easy is this to set-up a dynamic system? I would ideally like the system to be automated, generating video thumbnails and the linkage to the videos on its own, requring less technical expertise to interface with/update.
Also, how arduos would the process be of converting my current system which, is built around progresssive download to be capable of all this?
How much information in this area is available online? I've briefly looked at livedocs on subjects such as live-video switchers etc. Can anyone offer any other good links to sites covering these topics?
If anyone can offer any advice in this area, I would be greatly appreciative.
I'm fairly new to all of this and it has been a continual learning curve thus far, so I'm reluctant to butcher my progress but am willing to do so if this is the best option.
For your reference, there is a test system uploaded to our servers currently at:
Thanks,
Dave