0 Replies Latest reply: Aug 29, 2010 2:46 PM by cane2980 RSS

    Live video - just wondering

    cane2980 Community Member

      Ok, there are many ways to tackle issues, how would you tackle this one? Say I'm writing a video chat application (I have never written one, yet). I'm charging users for the bandwidth they consume. As usual everyone wants to play, few want to pay. Well you need to give non paying clients a little teaser so you program in a timer so they can only view cams for like 10 minutes out of a 24 hour time span. Well this is still a bandwidth problem. If the site is popular, you could have 200 non paying clients each chewing up 10 minutes of bandwidth a day. I know you can set the stream quality with actionscript, but is client specific?

       

      For example I turn on my webcam, it braodcasts at it's limits. I have 2 clients viewing it one paying and one not. By flash remoting I can query a database and find out who is who. My question is can I set the paying clients chat to view 100% quality of the broadcast while the non paying client only gets 50% quality? Or is there a better way to handle this bandwidth issue?

       

      Thanks for any thoughts you may have.