What's the best (affordable) way to stream LIVE video on the net?

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Tom Films

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I'd like to stream LIVE video of a event we have coming up. And my research hasn't revealed the best way to go about this? I have an unmetered Linux server, which would be able to handle the load for the small market I am in. So I would like to avoid using an all in one streaming service that charges an arm and a leg for bandwidth. Are there any services or software that support live streaming on a Linux server?

Would I be able to stream directly from a SD or HDV camera to the web? Or would I need to use a low quality 'web cam' style camera?

Any help, pointers, links are all appreciated!

Thanks
Tom
 
Check with your Host, Because alot of the time when you have " unmetered " its still capped at some point, whats the uplink connection to the server, is it dedicated? What Bandwidth provider is it on?

<-- Has done this before
- Zach
 
True, there is nothing truly 'unmetered' but it's not capped in the sense of 1000gb or whatever. The limitation is the 10mb/s line it's on. Would the limitation of how many simultaneous users be equated by the line speed 10mb divided by the streaming bitrate? Such as 200kb/sec (10240k line divided by 200kb stream equals 51 simultaneous streams). Is that how you factor it or am I way off? For this event I could get it on a 100mb line so if the above is right, that'd be around 500 users.

But my main question is how I get the video from my camera live to the web on a linux server. Don't understand what I need to make that work. I'm a PC guy, so any Mac solutions are out.

Thanks
Tom
 
Tom Films said:
True, there is nothing truly 'unmetered' but it's not capped in the sense of 1000gb or whatever. The limitation is the 10mb/s line it's on. Would the limitation of how many simultaneous users be equated by the line speed 10mb divided by the streaming bitrate? Such as 200kb/sec (10240k line divided by 200kb stream equals 51 simultaneous streams). Is that how you factor it or am I way off? For this event I could get it on a 100mb line so if the above is right, that'd be around 500 users.

But my main question is how I get the video from my camera live to the web on a linux server. Don't understand what I need to make that work. I'm a PC guy, so any Mac solutions are out.

Thanks
Tom
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On a linux server your options are limited, you can try NSV tools to encode, i would do around 400K for your push.
If you have any questions, hit me up at aim: peasentonfire xfire:miniman13
 
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