Think people would be interested in this?

I was thinking, with all the options for streaming video in SL, I could offer to encode video for streaming content at 384kbps (including audio). The could then put it up on a website and stream it into thier club / business / home whatever. Charge a fee of like L$1,000 for the service. I could have them mail me a disc with the content they wanted encoded and then send them one back. Ofcorse there would be a few stipulations, I would not encode anything that was not in the public domain or a video they made them selves (I am totaly anti-piracy). I have all the profesional grade tools to do the encodes, so my question is do you think people would be intersted in the idea?

I definitely think there'd be people interested in reliable and reasonably priced hosting of streaming video content. Encoding also, but a lot of people likely already have the ability to do that themselves.

I wonder, a good streaming codec costs $300 (Sorenson Video3 Pro) so does a good streaming audio codec. To illistrate what I am talking about look at these 2 example clips.

Apple.mov is encoded using only the codecs that come with QuickTime (Apple MPEG 4 Viode & Audio) SV3 is encoded using Sorenson Video 3 Pro and Qdesign 2 Pro. Not only is there a big quality difference the Apple file is almost twice the size even thoug it was encoded with the same bitrate.

I think people could benefit form good encoding too.

Also I could offer a service to host them too, I like that idea you had. Wonder what I should charge for it?

http://www.after-market.biz/video/test/apple.mov
http://www.after-market.biz/video/test/sv3.mov

I'd guess a lot of people have Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or similar apps that can do reasonably good quicktime compression, but I'm sure there's tons that don't. Those that don't though would be a lot less likely to be making video content they'd want hosted. I could be wrong but I'd think that hosting would be the main thing, with compression as a secondary service for those who need it. As for what to charge for hosting, I'm not really sure. I'd do stuff to stream to my parcel but I don't have the bandwidth on top of my shoutcast server to feed a video stream reliably to more than a single viewer. I looked around a bit at hosting solutions but didn't see anything that wasn't prohibitively expensive and massive overkill for just hosting one quicktime file. If you can provide hosting that's more reasonable and more tuned to the needs of SL content I bet you'd get a lot of takers

I think I can, I have a 4Gb/Moth bandwidth I can make use of, and 20Gb of sotrage on my server.

My big thing is wonder what to charge lol