Live Streaming solution.

#1

Post by Titusak » Fri, Aug 23, 2013, 10:25 PM UTC

Hi, Obviously there is a lot of tech guys here, and since I know nothing about "live streaming technologie" I was wondering if you could help me to understand something.

I would like to create a based community website which propose "live streaming classes". The teacher would be able to choose between asking a fee for people who want to enter the classe, leave it free, and, why not, just ask for donation.

The think is, I cant conceptualize in my head, how the streaming part work. Should I consider live streaming services supplier ? or should I host it on my own ?

Is someone enough kind could help me to understand this please ?

Re: Live Streaming solution.

#2

Post by andymoe » Fri, Aug 23, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC

Consider a turnkey streaming service or one of the major CDNs that provide such things instead of running streaming infrastructure yourself.

What about a "Kickstarter for courses?" (that one's free folks) where potential instructors propose a course and syllabus etc and if they can generate enough interest in x days then it moves forward and you take a cut to cover the live streaming + small margin and hopefully record the lectures along with the questions and answers from students.

Re: Live Streaming solution.

#3

Post by Titusak » Sat, Aug 24, 2013, 4:05 AM UTC

andymoe wrote: post #2

Consider a turnkey streaming service or one of the major CDNs that provide such things instead of running streaming infrastructure yourself. What about a "Kickstarter for courses?" (that one's free folks) where potential instructors propose a course and syllabus etc and if they can generate enough interest in x days then it moves forward and you take a cut to cover the live streaming + small margin and hopefully reco…

That is... actually, not a bad idea :) Thank you, will consider it during the week end.