Questions about Video Streaming

I am looking to run my first in-world training event and I have a number of questions about video streaming and would grateful to learn from others with experience in this area.

I have 2 .mov files - one is 50mb (5 minutes) and the other is 250mb (30 minutes) but I may be able to get them smaller with some better compression (currently expeimenting with using AVS4YOU converter at 'highest' quality - any less and quality is not good enough).

My questions are these:

1. Just putting the files on my server makes the download too slow - can anyone recommend an inexpensive streaming service?

2. I have been experimenting with the freeview TV player but I would rather people just click something to start the movie without them having access to the bookmark list?

3. Is it possible to have 2 movies playing simultaneously on 2 different screens on the same parcel of land?

4. Can I protect the url source so that if people do about land/media they cannot see the url?

5. Can I prevent a person from restarting the video and affecting other peoples viewing experience?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Hi, all I can say is that as the movies are allready Quicktime movs, that you use Quicktime Pro to re-compress them to a suitable size and bitrate, that will stream from a normal webserver.

Thanks Ramesses, I've downloaded Quicktime Pro as you've suggested and I'm putting in the setting you suggest - only one thing - I can't see where to set the audio bit rate, I don't seem to have an option for that and it defaults to 19288 bps.

Hi Doctor,

Well, these are the settings I have

http://www.digithull.karoo.net/qt_settings.jpg

Thanks, very impressed by the amount of compression achieved - over 80% without too much loss of quality. I put up the settings I achieved at http://www.nicobloc.com/ajhtemp/video/image1.jpg - very similar to yours except for the audio bit rate which I couldn't see how to change - seemed tied into the sample rate. Thanks