On Monday, April 16, 2012 11:45:10 PM UTC-4, Alan Halls wrote: > > I asked a company to put together an app that would connect to the wowza > RTMP server to stream content similar to the Khan Academy app on the Ipad > (without the running transcript) We have a monthly subscription for > watching the videos which is controlled through our forum software > vbulletin. The base quote was $24,750 and adding the ability to download > the videos to the device for later viewing while still timing out content > past the time of subscription brought the total up to $32,000 and 3 months > to complete. > > Overview: > There are basically 3 frames of data for the user interface along with an > intro splash page. > > > > On the left would be the site navigation which would have a very standard > set of links, basically just an XML file being displayed with a Nested > relationship between parent and child items. > > > > To the right would be the main frame which would really have about 10 > lines of code to say what server to connect to, what quality to stream and > what file to pull. Just a basic streaming window. > > > > Bottom would be a small description panel which is the contents of a > database field. Nothing fancy here either. > > > > Our site is already fully compatible with every mobile device, so the > first option for $24,750 doesn’t add any functionality to the site, only > makes it a little more user friendly AND I will say having our product show > up when people search related keywords in the markets would be great so I > do see value there. > > > > The second and real upgrade would be the ability to download the files. In > my basic understanding, this could be done and the files protected by > “injecting” some random code into the beginning of the file which the > player knows to ignore but if the files were copied to Windows or Mac OS > they wouldn’t know to ignore the first 32K of data and playback would fail. > Of course this doesn’t need to be done with RTMP streaming, but we do > currently store our media files above the public_html for protection. > > > > Not having ever done a mobile app myself, I don’t have the right answers > to the questions and so am going to others in the industry like you guys to > see if I am getting ripped off or if the developer knows things I don’t and > it justified. > > > > Below is a link to something similar: > > > http://www.dzinepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Khan-Academy-for-HP-webOS.jpg > > > http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/khan2.jpg > > >
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