Live Streaming Requirements?

We’re doing a website for a TV station, and they want to have a live TV broadcast on their website, our experience is basically in CMS and portal solutions, but we never had any experience in live streaming, so this is all new to us, so we’re looking for a technical and financial proposal with your suggestions and recommendations, this is the details of the project with some of the inquiries we have:

-The signal is SDI (Pal 25 fps)

-The output (online streaming) 15 fps

-The user will have two options to view the movie in:

1. Low: 56K

2. High: 300K

-The video should come within a customized designed page, probably as a code we can place inside an html table’s cell, not as a link for external link

-We’re expecting about 200 users for the video each month; each user’s logon time expected 10 min.

-We have a Red hat Linux on our server that will host the site, and we use php/MySql technology.

Inquires:

1. Why Windows media is better then Real in terms of performance, can you provide us with a comparison table to include it to our client?

2. If we choose Windows media, what are the requirements we need to have, form both; the TV station side, and in our Linux server? And how much would it cost?

4. Is there any hardware required from the TV station side such as DVR, or some sort of encoder, if so; what’s you’re recommendations (type/ brand), please note that this is a TV station and it needs a high quality professional hardware

5. How (and this is probably the most ambiguous task)

5.1. Do you broadcast the digital signal coming from the encoder (I guess) to the server?

5.2. And then place this signal on a PHP page? Do you give us a link to embed in our code?

6. If we choose to host the live streaming on a separated server and include the URL in our code, would that still required from our server to support Windows media, or it doesn’t matter as long as the video streaming is hosted on a Windows streaming server

7. How much disk space does it need to host a live streaming (with the details mentioned above)?

We would really appreciate your comments and suggestions, as this is our 1^st time to dealing with live streaming.

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