Reliably streaming audio or video content from your business or personal website presents various technical challenges. Finding the right hardware / software solution and implementing it properly can be a daunting task.
There are quite a few "off-the-shelf" video-servers that will run in a PHP / LAMP environment. Most of these utilize Flash, Flex or Silverlight to implement the actual video itself, though other video encapsulation methods are available.
The challenge of course, involves choosing the best software solution from the many available options. Due to the bandwidth-intensive nature of streaming, finding the right hosting provider - one that will allow streaming from their servers - presents additional challenges.
For information on setting up your own Streaming Media Server for business or personal use, please feel free to contact us.