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ChurchCrunch : In the Wild: Live Video Stream of Service on the iPhone - World's First

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:33:43 +0000

I'm "ianbeyer" on skype - ask away :) (ETA: I'm also cyberentomology on twitter)

ChurchCrunch : In the Wild: Live Video Stream of Service on the iPhone - World's First

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:25:03 +0000

We're using Flash Media encoder and the preview version of Wowza Media Advanced Server v2.0, using Amazon EC2 for bandwidth. The Wowza image on EC2 is ready to do iPhone right out of the box, all I have to do is point FMLE to it and go. Because of the low cost of EC2, it doesn't matter if we only have 4 people using it. It costs us 13 cents an hour for a server that can handle about 1200 iphone connections (at 250Kbps stream), and about 1 cent per viewer-hour. If we maxed the server out, it would cost us about 10 bucks an hour. And then we shut it down when we're done. Every sunday, morning and evening.

ChurchCrunch : In the Wild: Live Video Stream of Service on the iPhone - World's First

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:09:34 +0000

Check out my blog at http://blog.ianbeyer.com for deets, I've been doing a series on streaming. We're streaming iphone now too.

ChurchCrunch : In the Wild: Live Video Stream of Service on the iPhone - World's First

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:16:31 +0000

We started streaming our services to iPhone on a test basis this morning, and it was successful. Our stream is at http://live.cor.org/iPhone, or http://live.cor.org for browsers.