{"id":63,"date":"2007-03-09T23:52:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T04:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2007-03-09T23:52:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T04:52:43","slug":"video-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/03\/09\/video-streaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I got a call from a tech person interested in video streaming.\u00a0 He wanted to setup his own server.\u00a0 My first question was “are you crazy?”\u00a0 Google Video, YouTube and a dozen other places<\/a> will not only stream your video using band width that you don’t have to pay for, they will also store all those videos for you.\u00a0 On top of that, these services have slick interfaces that will let anyone easily upload almost any format of video.\u00a0 Arguably, the most difficult steps (from a user perspective) are getting the video into an acceptable format, uploading it and getting it to “play” in an embedded window on a web page.\u00a0 All of these things are super-simple if you use YouTube or one of the similar free services.<\/p>\n

The user end is only a small piece of the puzzle from the administrative end.\u00a0 Putting a video server into a school’s network is expensive.\u00a0 The server will require a lot of horsepower and disk space.\u00a0 Depending on the format, video can be a few hundred kilobytes per minute to a few megabytes per minute.\u00a0 In a building with a couple hundred students, each creating a ten minute presentation… the storage alone can get out of hand fast.\u00a0 I have several presentations on Google Video that are almost an hour each.<\/p>\n

Once all this video is stored on the server, it has to be streamed.\u00a0 This is where things get completely out of hand.\u00a0 Most schools don’t have the bandwidth required to continuously stream video to a significant number of users.\u00a0 The free services do a great job of minimizing the effect on a network by compressing the video to a reasonable size while maintaining an acceptable presentation quality.<\/p>\n

For most schools, using a public streaming service is not even an option.\u00a0 All of them are filtered out.\u00a0 It’s unfortunately that a few users of these public streaming services have ruined it for all of us.\u00a0 Most of the streaming services have policies that prohibit objectionable video uploads, but things do slip by just like they do with every filtering system in every public school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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