Live video streaming

[Sole Signal]

My church is looking to get into streaming services live from our website. Has anyone done this or know what is involved?

I have a few questions that would be easier talked out on AIM (mchawk19) - I'd really appreciate any help!

[m68030]

Streaming live is a pretty big deal. Would time-shifting to a streaming format be acceptable?

We were uploading services at our church to Vimeo for quite some time:
http://vimeo.com/sumterfcg

It's nice quality, assuming your original videos were as such, and also allows downloading of the original file, if you so choose.

[Sole Signal]

We'd probably do both, providing archives for download as well as live streaming. I did find this (http://www.christianworldmedia.com/wordstream/webcasting.asp) which answered a lot of my questions. It looks very doable.

[m68030]

Your biggest concern is going to be bandwidth. How many people do you expect to be viewing the live stream?

[Sole Signal]

I'd guess 50 or so from the outset. That site I linked to offers:

- 200 simultaneous viewers
- up to 320kbps broadcasting
- no bandwidth limit

for $59/month

Seems like a reasonable price to me....?