Mark, More likely than not, you're going to have to charge if you intend on streaming a 1gb video file to many users. I'm not expert on media streaming business models; I just enjoy my Hulu and pay for my Netflix.
-- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Mark Wyszomierski <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ritesh, > > Thanks for your response, I really appreciate it. It looks like I have to > see how large my intended video files are, and how much usage I'll get from > users. For example, outgoing bandwidth costs $0.12 per GB. If I have a > single video file that's 1gb, and 100 people watch it that day, then I'll > end up paying $12. Amazon has similar pricing. I don't know much about how > or if browsers will cache any video content, but that would help if users > want to keep replaying the same video. Or replay the same video on different > days (which is likely in my case). The other option is hosting on youtube > for free, but then I believe they take over the rights to the video. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Ritesh Nadhani <rite...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello Mark >> >> AFAIK, the 30sec limit is only for request time. Uploading/storing to >> Blobstore does not have this limit. Neither does serving a Blobstore >> data has this issue. >> >> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html#Serving_a_Blob >> >> I currently run a music site to which users regularly upload more than >> 10MB file taking more than 30 seconds. Users are successfuly able to >> stream the music using any freely available Flash music player. >> >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Mark <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm looking to upload a video file into the blobstore, then stream it >> > to a flash player. I'm not sure if this is possible or not because I >> > see conflicting messages here about support for it. >> > >> > I know there's a 30 second http connection limit. I'm not sure if that >> > counts towards streaming a file. >> > >> > I would host the videos on youtube, but the video content for this app >> > is supposed to be 'protected', meaning I don't want to let people view >> > the video unless authenticated. Using the youtube api would be an easy >> > win otherwise. >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> > For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Ritesh >> http://www.beamto.us >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
