Nick Rout wrote:
Don you can't expect help if you won't give us some realistic info about
what you want to acheive.
At present I'm simply trying to learn about the technology.
As I said previously, my Dad expressed interest in it the other day. He
talked about an idea that I think is about as realistic as the last few
ideas we've worked on.
However it got me thinking. As a kid I used to love making home movies.
I have all the technology to do stuff now, so why not have a go.
I thought that having a few media files, about the CIA project I'm
doing, would be fun.
I also think it would be quite a cool thing to get the LES kids into.
I'd also like to do some media files/"Home Movies" about the community
networking project.
"How to run a cable"
"How to put a plug on a cable"
"How to put more than one network card in a pc"
"How to put up an antenna on your roof"
I real don't expect that many people will be interested in these so
there won't be huge amount of traffic.
If I build something that heaps of people want to use then I guess that
I'll have to look at how I slow down each connection so that everyone
can have a fair go.
I'm not worried about the cost of data. If I end up creating something
that is popular then I'll look at selling some ads or something to help
pay for it, or I could ask someone to sponsor it - amounts to the same
thing.
It's all very academic at present because I clearly don't even know how
to turn the media files, that come out of my camera, in to something
that anyone can download.
Having said that, I have all the software I need to do it on a Microsoft
platform. I've had the software for almost 10 years now. But I don't
want to do it on MS, I want to serve this up off a Linux platform. I
want to do that just because it's fun to try something different.
The primary benefit of a streaming data feed is that you can start the
feed half way through. With an AVI you have to download the whole thing
before you can start playing.
Streaming video is a high bandwidth operation.
I know. So what? ADSL2+ will let users close to their exchange
download at up to 24mbits/second.
DVD players only use 4 to 8mbits per second.
DOCIS3 will do up to 100 or more mbit/s.
The amount of time it takes me to learn stuff and get it running, there
will be more than enough data by the time I get there.
You won't realistically do it from a NZ consumer level broadband
connection.
I've got 1mbit and 2mbit links available to me. I must be able to get a
proof of concept up and running that one or two people can view that the
same time. I'm not talking broadcast quality here. I'm talking home
video style. Do you remember Super 8 mm cameras? 18 frames / second,
really low quality audio.
Cheers Don
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