Video. It’s the hot thing but most users seem to be seeing it as just another data type to be delivered for free and at low cost. Once most of us master deploying on-demand video on our personal or company website, blog or even with screencasts for training purposes, the inevitable next thing many of us do is to explore delivering live, streaming events.
The latter is a very different animal and the technical challenges, costs of bandwidth and ensuring your audience has a great experience isn’t for the faint of heart or dabbler. Our guest, TJ Kudalis, Senior Video Engineer from Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS), is a guy involved in video delivery on the internet since its infancy, and is someone whose been in the trenches with his IBS team to deliver content after the 9/11 tragedies, to the 70+ local TV stations IBS supports, as the content feed for NBC’s Olympic coverage in 2006, and is someone who knows what’s possible, what the costs are like for bandwidth and, most importantly, has a solid handle on the trends in software, hardware and peer-to-peer video delivery.
B: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).
The Podcast
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LinBks mentioned during the show and are others you’ll find enlightening:
- StreamingMediaBlog: News about the “business behind the technology of online video”
- Contentinople: A news site for the digital delivery industry
- Videonuze: Broadband video news
- NewTeeVee: Blog magazine about internet TV
- LostRemote: A multi-author blog written by people within traditional media but focused on, “…local TV and the battle for the Web.”
- Ripcode: Video transcoding appliance
- Mogulus: Is a hosted web (Flex) application to create LIVE, scheduled and on-demand internet television to broadcast anywhere on the web through a single player widget.
- uStream: “…is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size.”
- Oprah webcast: at the time (early 2008) was the largest webcast yet at 500,000 viewers.
- Obama Inauguration sets new records for internet video delivery
- For more on content delivery networks (CDNs) — and links to many of those providers as well as peer-to-peer technologies like the mentioned Octoshape — view this Wikipedia page.