Re: [google-appengine] Video streaming - possible, or not?

2010-10-19 Thread Ritesh Nadhani
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, Ik

Re: [google-appengine] Video streaming - possible, or not?

2010-10-19 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
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://googleap

Re: [google-appengine] Video streaming - possible, or not?

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
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, th

Re: [google-appengine] Video streaming - possible, or not?

2010-10-18 Thread Ritesh Nadhani
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 user

[google-appengine] Video streaming - possible, or not?

2010-10-18 Thread Mark
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