Hello Mark I agree with Ikai or if you could figure out other revenue stream. Though even with $0.12/GB, its possibly one of the cheapest rates out there. Long story short, its technically possible, now one has to see if it makes business sense.
Best of luck. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) <ikai.l+gro...@google.com> wrote: > 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. >>> > 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. >>> 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
