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1. jdchangmedia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi,

   I'm working on a video tutorial site that I would like to:

   1. Stream 300meg to 1gig video flash files

   2. Password protect to view the videos

   I see that I can use "password protect" in Pages > Password

   But I'm running into trouble uploading such big files.

   How can do upload these files for playback? Do I need a separate plug-in for something this big?

   Or is there even a better to stream these .flv files?

   Thanks in advance for your help.

2. David Gwyer
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   If you have any number of videos playing on your site then I would definitely NOT host them on your site. It will be a nightmare with uploading, bandwidth, web host costs etc.

   The only viable (and scalable) solution to this is to use a CDN (content delivery network) such as: http://www.bitsontherun.com/

   I have used their system with WordPress before via a custom integration, it can be done. All your videos are stored on their servers (and duplicated on servers around the world - users get served with your video from the nearest server).

   What sort of video tutorials do you plan on producing by the way?

3. jdchangmedia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi,

   I'm doing educational videos that are about 1-2 hours long each (.flv)

   I'll check out bitsontherun.com

   Can that work with a password protected page too?

   Thanks.

4. jdchangmedia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi dgwyer,

   I just talked to my hosting company...they currently have all of my .flv videos on their server through a VPS server.

   I can stream from them. I just need a way for playback on the WP Blog page.

   Is this still a viable method?

   Thanks

5. David Gwyer
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I used the security available through the CDN plus a third party membership script to allow people to sign-up and subscribe to videos (guests would see a preview).

   You could probably achieve something similar through a Plugin but I have not used one myself. Just try searching the Plugin repo for membership, subscription etc.

6. Michael
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   You may want to take a look at Amazon S3 for storage and EZS3 for delivery.

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