information about software to use for video streaming for a friends coaching class

[Karan Ahuja]

hello friends

i am looking software/technology to use for video streaming of  lectures for a friends coaching institute
we plan to record the lectures and make them available for students on the internet for a fee.

also maybe there is some software for the teacher to write notes on a virtual board and the students can view the notes.
multiple students should be able to log in at the same time and view the lectures.

any pointers towards opensource/paid software to do this will helpful.

thanks and regards

karan ahuja

[Mandeep Singh]

Hi Karan,

You can have a look at the webex solution for providing online
trainings through web conferencing. You can also upload the recorded
training session for accessing it online anytime.

Do revert for more info on the same.

Regards
Mandeep

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regards
mandeep

[Raxit Sheth]

Why not to put on youtube/slideshare ?  if it is not live streaming but recorded one ?

Raxit Sheth

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Karan Ahuja <karan2...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Vipul Mathur]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Karan Ahuja<karan2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> hello friends
>
> i am looking software/technology to use for video streaming of  lectures for
> a friends coaching institute
> we plan to record the lectures and make them available for students on the
> internet for a fee.
>

Take a look at wiziq.com to see if it fits your needs.

~vipul

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Vipul Mathur
FOAF: http://vipulmathur.org/foaf.rdf#VM

[Prasoon Kumar]

Flash Media Server is another formidable option or you could use DimDim open-source or hosted one (free for upto 20 participants. Dimdim is built on top of Red5. For live streaming, Youtube will not suffice, as Raxit suggested. mind you Red5 is not easy to work with.
- Prasoon Kumar
Samuel Goldwyn  - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."

[ankur]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Karan Ahuja <karan2...@gmail.com> wrote:

hello friends

i am looking software/technology to use for video streaming of  lectures for a friends coaching institute
we plan to record the lectures and make them available for students on the internet for a fee.

Hello Karan,

You have a nice idea. You can create a youtube like application. Its very easy.

also maybe there is some software for the teacher to write notes on a virtual board and the students can view the notes.
multiple students should be able to log in at the same time and view the lectures.

any pointers towards opensource/paid software to do this will helpful.

Lets search for "ffmpeg" in google. This tool will solve your problem.

http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/

Any type of video file is streamed with this tool.
for eg.

ffmpeg -i test.mov testNew.flv
this will convert the mov file to flv file. and this flv file can be put in to any flash player by just adding 2 line of code.

<object
    classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
    codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
    width="336"
    height="297">
    <param name="movie" value="testNew.flv" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <embed src="testNew.flv"
      quality="high"
      pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
     type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
      width="336"
      height="297"></embed>
  </object>

Thats it, you are done.

Only the work you have to do is, install ffmpeg in your linux server and run this command from your PHP code "exec(ffmpeg .... )" and  done.

gooogle more for this keyword.

thanks and regards

karan ahuja

~ ankur.
~ God is real, else declare Integer. :) 

[manas gajare]

If u want to live stream through mobile, then this is good solution.
http://qik.com

[lilious]

If you want an easy solution working out of the box, check Ustream
(http://www.ustream.tv/)

It provides live streaming with an associated chat room but also allow
you to record and store your videos, like youtube does.

I don't think you can setup a fee system, but I suppose you could
embed the video in a webpage with a virtual board and ask or fee to
acces that webpage.


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