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nick-verotel
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Posted - Dec 8 2015 : 9:05AM
and then shipping them to making them downloadable. I have a friend who is wanting to make this transition. Do you have any advice as how to best go about this? Where to host? Is the dvd iso better or should it be converted into something smaller?
Thanks in advance!
Nick
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lex von v
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Posted - Dec 8 2015 : 9:19AM
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probably wrong forum. First, you should be sure that legal-wise everything is clear, because you can sell DVDs only once, but download them as often as you want, so the retail price may be different for such an application.
Technically speaking: DVD ISO use MPEG2 codec, which is outdated and could do with 1/10th to 1/5th when converted to a modern codec, but you’d lose menus etc. MKV as container format could probably mitigate that somewhat, but I don’t know of any tool that would do that out-of-the-box, and in any case would have to be done on a per-DVD basis, so probably quite a lot of work. Otherwise, uncompressed ISOs are 7GB each, so you’d have to factor this in for server capacity and traffic volume.
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Posted - Dec 8 2015 : 9:36AM
Does your friend own the rights to the movies he/she plans on selling or has he/she licensed the material?
nick-verotel
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Posted - Dec 8 2015 : 9:57AM
Pretty sure they shot and own all the videos. Where would you store it all? Would you use your own server or get someone to specifically host it?
lex von v
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Posted - Dec 8 2015 : 5:07PM
If the source material is DVD, then you could go by with 1GB per hour of footage for decent quality, but if you're going HD, file size will increase quite a lot. From all the outlet, it appears noone is interested in menus and similar things, everyone downloads individual scenes, so you can guesstimate what storage space it will take (storage space per se is not the issue on today's servers), but getting it out to the customers is the bottleneck.
I would say your own server is definitely a must, or at least a server with guaranteed bandwidth and a decent connection. Low-rent servers are connected with 100Mbit/s, which is basically 10 MB/s. Which would allow 10 people to download from that server at 1MB/s. You do the math. (let me do this much math for you: a scene with 1GB in size will then take 15-20 minutes to download, assuming 10 people do that at the same time. Let it be 50 people, then it takes already over an hour. Also, let's say you have 20 1GB-scenes, and 50 customers downloading them all, then you have to account for 1TB of download volume)
There are some content delivery networks out there that do simple file downloading services at higher data rates, which you can rent, but probably not all of them will be ok with delivering porn.
Also, you'd have to figure out accounting and an access control system for having customers (and only customers) downloading the videos etc.
 
snufish
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Posted - Dec 15 2015 : 10:39PM
Seller can offer both - DVDrip or DVD-Download.
This can be done on a VPS or Dedicated server.
Kimsufi offers $13 per month Dedicated servers but they sell out quick.
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