RMS - Bandwidth - Media Streaming...

I would like to add a video stream to my site for streaming live events (sports in case you were wandering!)

I dont use cam chat or anything like that on the site and have no streaming media on the go.

I would like to know if I would be best off with a separate RMS server to the instalation.

Would this then mean that all bandwidth used by one event would be hosted on the media server and not slow down my site???

Also, I would only be using on cam feed from the event. There would not be any users cams on the go so just one stream.

This though, could be going out to possibly a few thousand people.

Does this mean I use the bandwidth of just my stream feed, or does it count the download feed from each user???

Newbie to streaming like this!...

I was looking at Rayzzz live cam module possibly.

Any other suggestions??

daihlo

As you may know, we host a free RMS service... about 350 or so domains, pushing out about 1.5TB of transfer a month.

What we have found is that RMS (RED5) likes:

a) RAM (we currently allocate -Xms1512M -Xmx2512M )
You may want to allocate even more.

Current Memory Usage:   4194304k total,  1693928k used,  2500376k free

b) Fast port speeds (we currently use 1Gbit ports)
You may want even faster port speeds.

With our multiple RMS users and data transfer, the 5 minute load average on that server is only 0.15 over the last month, with peaks of 0.30, on an 8 core server.  So RMS CPU load is minimal, and can almost be ignored.  Currently, it is: load average: 0.15, 0.18, 0.21 at 10PM Eastern Standard Time.

So it seems like... if you give your RMS a bunch of RAM (maybe even more than what I mentioned above, depending on your needs), and fast ports, you should be OK.  Server load, appears to be a non-issue on a reasonably powered server.

Good luck!

Smoge

Will Dolphin support a live stream video for 40-80 members? or is it a server issue and not Dolphin.