JayKid
New Contributor
Hi all,
I was just curious as to how expensive it was to run a site with the ability to use live video within the browser. I know it probably requires a lot of bandwidth, but I really don't know much about it so any help is appreciated.
Let's just say it can maybe be simplified by the amount of data required for one user per minute or per hour? I can then at least scale that up to see the data required and pit that against the bandwidth necessary per month to see what server costs might be.
Additionally, I know video quality matters as well, let's just say average for that.
Ultimately, I have an idea that I want to take advantage of live video, but think I'd benefit greatly from not forcing users to use skype, googletalk, or other form of webcamming outside my site. However, I know it's expensive... but considering there are even free webcam services out there (i.e. stickam, justintv, youcams, and others) and they all seem to be doing well, then it must be possible.
Let me know. Thanks!
I was just curious as to how expensive it was to run a site with the ability to use live video within the browser. I know it probably requires a lot of bandwidth, but I really don't know much about it so any help is appreciated.
Let's just say it can maybe be simplified by the amount of data required for one user per minute or per hour? I can then at least scale that up to see the data required and pit that against the bandwidth necessary per month to see what server costs might be.
Additionally, I know video quality matters as well, let's just say average for that.
Ultimately, I have an idea that I want to take advantage of live video, but think I'd benefit greatly from not forcing users to use skype, googletalk, or other form of webcamming outside my site. However, I know it's expensive... but considering there are even free webcam services out there (i.e. stickam, justintv, youcams, and others) and they all seem to be doing well, then it must be possible.
Let me know. Thanks!
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