I asked a company to put together an app that would connect to the wowza RTMP server to stream content similar to the Khan Academy app on the Ipad (without the running transcript) We have a monthly subscription for watching the videos which is controlled through our forum software vbulletin. The base quote was $24,750 and adding the ability to download the videos to the device for later viewing while still timing out content past the time of subscription brought the total up to $32,000 and 3 months to complete.
Overview: There are basically 3 frames of data for the user interface along with an intro splash page. On the left would be the site navigation which would have a very standard set of links, basically just an XML file being displayed with a Nested relationship between parent and child items. To the right would be the main frame which would really have about 10 lines of code to say what server to connect to, what quality to stream and what file to pull. Just a basic streaming window. Bottom would be a small description panel which is the contents of a database field. Nothing fancy here either. Our site is already fully compatible with every mobile device, so the first option for $24,750 doesn't add any functionality to the site, only makes it a little more user friendly AND I will say having our product show up when people search related keywords in the markets would be great so I do see value there. The second and real upgrade would be the ability to download the files. In my basic understanding, this could be done and the files protected by "injecting" some random code into the beginning of the file which the player knows to ignore but if the files were copied to Windows or Mac OS they wouldn't know to ignore the first 32K of data and playback would fail. Of course this doesn't need to be done with RTMP streaming, but we do currently store our media files above the public_html for protection. Not having ever done a mobile app myself, I don't have the right answers to the questions and so am going to others in the industry like you guys to see if I am getting ripped off or if the developer knows things I don't and it justified. Below is a link to something similar: http://www.dzinepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Khan-Academy-for-HP-web OS.jpg http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/khan 2.jpg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
