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Sinc747
19 Jun 2011, 02:32
Wondering if anyone has any experience with ClickStreamTV. They seem to have a pretty full offering for someone looking for a professional CDN that offers PPV, VOD, etc.

Any war stories?
Rafal Oramus
19 Jun 2011, 07:01
No, but their prices don't look encouragingly.

I have to check soon Amazon Cloudfront. Another good news (for me): it looks like it's finally available for Europe users (servers in Ireland).

it looks like it's finally available for Europe users (servers in Ireland).

Amazon tutorial: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/FeaturedArticles/latest/index.html?LiveStreamingUsingAmazonCloudFront.html

Tom, if You decide my post destroys Your thread - move it to another.
damn2good4u
19 Jun 2011, 20:59
No, but their prices don't look encouragingly.

I have to check soon Amazon Cloudfront. Another good news (for me): it looks like it's finally available for Europe users (servers in Ireland).

it looks like it's finally available for Europe users (servers in Ireland).

Amazon tutorial: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/FeaturedArticles/latest/index.html?LiveStreamingUsingAmazonCloudFront.html

Tom, if You decide my post destroys Your thread - move it to another.

Hi Tom,

What's your budget like for a CDN or Live Streaming Platform, we can give you whatever you are looking for to live stream your event... I don't use any of the streaming platform and I have 24/7 live streaming contents...

check my site out at www.fusionplustv.com/live
Sinc747
19 Jun 2011, 23:04
Really looking for PPV more than any other feature.
Lars Borg
21 Jun 2011, 18:37
We have just been approved to use Android market and this also means you can use Google Checkout, which we will try to use as much as possible in the future.

The idea is of course to make it possible to keep as much as possible of the hard earned cash from a LIVE broadcast.
Sinc747
21 Jun 2011, 21:47
PayPal does not provide the secuirty support needed for a series of PPV broadcasts. Some sort of token system is needed I believe to prevent unpaid users from gaining access to the broadcast.

Actually, ClickStreamTV can use the PayPal Gateway and allow PayPal to process the payments.
Lars Borg
21 Jun 2011, 22:49
PayPal has the tools to have it...you need to communicate with there system of course. There is a lot of work involved.
Sinc747
22 Jun 2011, 02:04
Details?
Rafal Oramus
22 Jun 2011, 07:23
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/library_code

Your webpage must be like a web shop.

Your customer add the subscription to the cart, then clicks "pay" and he is redirected to paypal. He pays and paypal sens info to your system that customer "x" paid for subscription "z".

Once your (logged in) customer clicks to webpage with your paid content, the system checks if his subscription is active. If so - he can view the show.

On your paid show webpage you just insert the code provided by Your CDN.
Icersman
22 Jun 2011, 22:33
Tom

Have you checked out TikiLive (http://www.tikilive.com/index/see/how-it-works#how-it-works)? They have a pretty good package, including PPV and VOD. I gave them a good look for our webcasts.
Sinc747
23 Jun 2011, 01:24
Any first hand experience?
Icersman
23 Jun 2011, 12:56
Any first hand experience?

No - I did talk to them about their services.

With Penn State moving to varsity hockey in 2012 we're in a holding pattern about our video platform, so I didn't commit to using their streaming service.
Sinc747
23 Jun 2011, 13:32
Understood. Will varsity knock you out of broadcasting?
Icersman
23 Jun 2011, 13:36
Hope not - you'd think after 9 years they'll keep me. Not knowing is not fun.