Originally Posted by Robbie

My Adobe Flash Media Server has always streamed in a way that you can click anywhere in the video and instantly stream from there. So that's nothing new.

But I've never heard any of the stuff about Wowza supposedly putting the load on your server instead of the end user.
If it did that...you would shut down your server pretty quick when you get a few hundred people streaming vids simultaneously.

As far as I know...streaming video (and especially encrypted vid like I do) puts the main load on the viewer. You wouldn't want the load on your server. Because then people would REALLY have troubles trying to watch the stream as the server cpu maxes out.

Originally Posted by Robbie

ADG...for me, "HD" is me shooting it in HD

As for streaming it...I make the resolution fit the CSS on my page. So I output them a 900 x 506

Last thing I want is to have the player not fit the page or the screen.

Now in a few years...I may have some trouble when everybody runs a 30 inch monitor like I do and wants a full 1920 x 1080 resolution

But hell..that's gonna require me to redesign the whole site anyway (page width, size of player, graphics, everything) So re-encoding all the vids won't be that big a deal. Heck, it'll be the easiest thing to do.

BUT...all the vids I have that were shot in SD for the first couple of years? Nothing I can do about that. They are forever 720 x 480

I have no idea what I or anybody else is gonna be able to do about the older vids like that. They already look kinda pathetic next to my "HD" vids of 900 x 506

And when I watch raw vid footage on my monitor at full 1920 x 1080...they look like nothing! lol

But anyway..."HD" is what you want it to be when you are streaming. You want it to fit your site and look good within that context. If I streamed these at 1920 x 1080 it wouldn't look as good on the site (and for many members it would look horrible on their non-widescreen monitors because it would be way too big.

Just do what looks good for the layout of your pages. For me it's 900x506 (but of course the person watching can always go full screen...and mine blow up just fine on my 1920 x 1080 p 30 inch widescreen monitor)

As for how to advertise "HD" to potential customers? I just tell the truth: "SHOT in glorious HD"

I shot it in full 1080p
I display it to fit my layout.