Even small churches are getting in the video game lately and as your church’s library of video grows, how do you manage all of that content?
Our team has gone through a couple rounds of tweaks over the last two years in the area of serving on-demand video on the website and I still think we can do better.
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Its very easy to do on demand when you stream on Ustream.tv or Livestream. plus you can do it for free.
For sure, they do make it easy. I’m not super stoked about the quality but it is a nice workflow.
Ustream.tv is getting to be more viable in my country as the competition gets going with internet offerings. Soon 4mb uncapped lines will be affordable. But at the moment it is still too expensive and besides it may be argued by the leadership that we’ld rather not give an excuse for people to stay at home.
For our church, the video gets hosted on Vimeo, and is presented on our website via the Sermon Browser WordPress plugin.
Hit us with a link
http://www.4-14.org.uk/wordpress-plugins/sermon-browser
We’re quite happy with Blip.tv for our platform right now. We enjoy their automated cross posting to blogs, API, and transcoding to M4V and MP3 for podcasting. However the future appears to be origin-pull CDN, either from the cloud or from an alternative file storage solution. We’ve looked at Akamai bandwidth for some time now for it’s RTMP streaming and potential mobile streaming over HTTP, it would give us a globally reliable delivery solution, at a cost below our current expense with Ustream Watershed, infact it could potentially lower costs down around $0.05 per viewer assuming a 60 minute broadcast @ 850kbps.
we serve a few of our videos off of the limlight CDN as well as live RTMP through limelight. Akamai seems to have great performance too from what I’ve seen.
Vimeo for us.
most of the videos that I post onto vimeo for church are the life change stories (baptism testimonies) after the fact and appended with the actual baptism, very cool stuff. I pushed for video mainly because I just think it is cleaner and better looking.
speaking of videos and church, I tried wordpress plugin : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fw-vimeo-videowall/
quiet interesting.
Do you have an example of how you implemented the plugin on your site? I would love to see how that worked out!
I’m a big fan of Viddler. Their player is really customizable (white label). They have generous limits and awesome pro features for paid accounts. And their support is top notch, even for free accounts.
Viddler does have a pretty tasty setup. It looks like they are already sending HTML5 based where possible, which is nice.
On an HTML5 note, Blip.tv has also been doing this for their users with h.264 baseline videos, if there is an iProduct compatible version, iProducts will receive a compatible version with the existing embed code, no need to change.
We’ve actually begun to roll our solution. We got really tired of the problems that we had with one of the large church streaming companies and we began building our own flash players and bought space on a CDN. We do both ondemand and live services with the same CDN and very similar players. We are saving a ton of money this way and have complete control over the experience!