Pay Per View/Video On Demand Streaming

[grep123]

Hi,

I need to create a website which sells video subscriptions and I would like to know good solutions for video on demand streaming and hosting.

I'm looking to answer this questions:

- How do you secure it
- How do you use the logs to limit the BW per user
- What services do you use for that
- Any tip that may help me
- What are the limitations (how do you overcome them?)
- CDN recommendations
- Hosting recommendations
- Anything else...

How did you do it? How would you do it? If you could share your experience, it would be great for me (and probably for many others).

Thanks

[TreeTops]

What's your budget? It will cost thousands of US dollars to do what you have listed.

[grep123]

Hi,

I was thinking in using everything cloud based.

[TreeTops]

That could even cost more. You are going to produce those vids, correct? So you would have the copyright. You would host those vids on a dedicated server somewhere in the cloud. People would pay you to see those vids. Is that correct?

[grep123]

Yes you're correct!

[TreeTops]

What's your budget? How many thousands are you willing to spend?

[adrianvarga]

I have used NetroMedia in the past for a complete Pay-Per-View solution - and was very happy with the service (though my profit slightly less than what I expected to earn). It was a live event - but followed with On-Demand videos.

Answers to your questions:

- How do you secure it

It is secured using their log-in system, together with something called StreamSecure that makes sure people can't copy and share your videos...

- How do you use the logs to limit the BW per user

I think this is a complex request that will probably push the price up. I would not worry about it, and instead price the videos or PPV so that you don't lose regardless of bandwidth costs. Meaning - sell reasonably priced time-based subscriptions (one month, one week, one day etc).

- Any tip that may help me

My one tip would be - get your estimates right (viewers, subscribers etc). That is the key in my opinion to a successful investment in this area, and to reaching a WIN-WIN-WIN situation.

- CDN / Hosting recommendations

NetroMedia operates its own CDN and provides video hosting, so I was covered there.


Good luck!