Here are my notes for being your own Youtube/Vimeo and hosting and streaming video yourself. This is a good thing because you want to capture the value that your video creates, and not give it to someone else.
Encoding the Data
mencoder -o screencast-40.flv -of lavf -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame \ -lameopts cbr:aq=0:br=32:mode=3 \ -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=8:trell:keyint=20 -fps 10 \ -ofps 2.5 -vf scale=640:480 mf://output/*.png -audiofile\ output/*.wav -lavfopts format=flv -af channels=1 #-frames 25 flvtool2 -UP screencast-40.flv mencoder -o screencast-240.flv -of lavf -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame \ -lameopts cbr:aq=0:br=64:mode=3 \ -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=176:trell:keyint=20 -fps 10 \ -vf scale=640:480 mf://output/*.png -audiofile output/*.wav \ -lavfopts format=flv -af channels=1 # -frames 100 flvtool2 -UP screencast-240.flv mencoder -o screencast-500.flv -of lavf -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame \ -lameopts cbr:aq=0:br=64:mode=3 \ -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=436:trell:keyint=20 -fps 10 \ -vf scale=640:480 mf://output/*.png -audiofile output/*.wav \ -lavfopts format=flv -af channels=1 # -frames 100 flvtool2 -UP screencast-500.flv
Hosting the streaming video
I just discovered SimpleCDN. Not only are they a cheap CDN, but they also provide flv and h264 pseudo-streaming, which is what you want to stream video. Right now they give you $15 of free hosting. Sweet. You want their 'StormFront' offering.
Flash Video Player
For this we will use Flowplayer and two plugins. The first is to support pseudostreaming and the second to do bandwidth detection.
FLV/h264 switching
if (flashembed.isSupported([9, 115]) ) {
// do h264
} else {
//do flv
}Bandwidth detection
Use this plugin. Annoyingly I couldn't get the bandwidth test file to stream from the CDN, so it had to come from my webserver. This sucks, but shouldn't matter too much since the point of congestion will be at the user's end not mine.