tools needed to make a streaming website

[mr-scarface]

I'm looking at creating a website that will stream mostly live sports matches. Take a look at www.atdhe.net. I want to create something similar.

I was wondering if anyone would be able to give me a breakdown of the equipment needed to start a site like that. I realize you need to have a satellite dish in order to get the channels to stream to the internet. Also, you must need a hell of an internet connection or you gotta use co-location services. If someone can shed some light on this, it would be much appreciated.

[disturbed1]

If you don't own the rights to the show, it is illegal to rebroadcast something.

But - let's say you decide to stream at 500kb/s, if you have 10 people watching, that's 5,000kb/s 5mb/s upstream. Fiber connections can offer 20-50mb/s upstream so you're covered there. But if you have 30 streams with 5 people each watching, that 150 x 500kb/s = 75,000kb/s or 75mb/s. After 30 minutes of streaming you've just transfered ~2gigs of data upstream in 30 minutes!!! So you'll need a fat pipe and a foregiving ISP :P

If you're only looking to stream a show or 2 for you watch remotely, VLC has this function built in. Start here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

That website you linked to just looks like a link farm not an actual streaming site.

[mr-scarface]

If you don't own the rights to the show, it is illegal to rebroadcast something.

I figured this would be a problem. Surely there's a way to become a licensed distributor.?

If you're only looking to stream a show or 2 for you watch remotely, VLC has this function built in. Start here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

No I actually want it to be a website so that I can get all my friends using it.

[Cornucopia]

Answer to the BW problem is "Multicasting" (the backbone routers replicate the packets to the various client requests in their domain). Requires true streaming servers/protocols.

Licensing? Need to contact the:
A. Owners of the sports teams.
B. Possibly Representatives of the League/Organization body (if there is one)
C. Owners of the venue

Have meetings with them and bring your Lawyer(s)/Accountant(s)! Work out what your role is, your allowable jurisdiction and media types, your eligiblity/expiry dates, and your royalty rates/stages and payment schedules.
It's not for the faint of heart. Or for hobbyists. This is business (usually BIG BUSINESS).

Scott

[Cornucopia]

(duplicate post)

Scott

[SatStorm]

In other words, forget it....

Better buy a sling box and share with a couple of friends what you are watching. This is also illegal in some countries, so check your local laws.