I’m working on a project that will involve having a couple thousand short videos online. I haven’t done anything with online video before and this is all a bit new to me, so I am looking for some general advice…
I would like to use Flowplayer, and I would like to encode the videos as H264s. I am enamoured with Flowplayer’s slow motion feature, which if I understand correctly, is only available using a Wowza server.
I’m wondering: Is it advisable to use a delivery network of some sort? (Flowplayer seems to have a partnership with HDDN, and recommends them. http://www.hddn.com/) Or would I be better off purchasing Wowza and installing it on our own server? (At first glance, it looks as though signing up with a network like HDDN is much simpler, but perhaps there are problems that come along with this…?)
Any tips / warnings of imminent peril would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Answer
I’ve been using lighttpd to stream to flowplayer and was pretty impressed by the ease of setup, reliability, speed and small footprint it used. You can’t use the slow motion/fast forward features though.
Maybe you could setup a development server to compare lighttpd to wowza to see if it’s really worth it?
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