Comment Why not use Quicktime instead? (Score 1) 149
I'm surprised no one else has mentioned going toward a Mac platform for what you want to do. You mention that you want to stream video, but don't specify the format that you want to do it in.
.ASF - Uh, yeah right...
.RM - Real may be the standard but it is a server hog and the cost for the server software... Yikes!
.AVI - We're talking streaming here...
For streaming seriously look at the Quicktime format. The server software is only $500 or so and runs like a dream. Everyone can use it and there are plenty of encoding solutions out there to make QT files to stream out.
Our current solution where I work for doing what you propose, is filming everything in DV, encode it in a render farm consisting of 4 G3 computers with BlueICE cards, all fiber channeled to 360GB of drive space.
If you're looking for quality streaming video at a great price, seriously look into getting a couple of G3s. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars of multi-processor NT/Linux solutions when a non-expensive non-MS platform already exists doing exactly what you need.
.ASF - Uh, yeah right...
.RM - Real may be the standard but it is a server hog and the cost for the server software... Yikes!
.AVI - We're talking streaming here...
For streaming seriously look at the Quicktime format. The server software is only $500 or so and runs like a dream. Everyone can use it and there are plenty of encoding solutions out there to make QT files to stream out.
Our current solution where I work for doing what you propose, is filming everything in DV, encode it in a render farm consisting of 4 G3 computers with BlueICE cards, all fiber channeled to 360GB of drive space.
If you're looking for quality streaming video at a great price, seriously look into getting a couple of G3s. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars of multi-processor NT/Linux solutions when a non-expensive non-MS platform already exists doing exactly what you need.
