live streaming...am I on the right track?

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From: fizzx (fizzx_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:33:01 -0700

I’ve read through a lot of media services 9 docs and think I understand, but
wanted to run this past you all to make sure I’m not missing something.

Scenario: My church has a Thursday night service that has reached 100%
capacity and there are many families that don’t come because the service
doesn’t get out until almost 9pm which is too late to keep young school kids
up. I believe many of these families would love the option of hearing the
service over the web. So I want to setup a live audio stream … I want to go
with “live” because what I’ve read says multicasting would be the best use of
our T1 and I have no idea how much demand there could be. Our auditorium
maxes out at 1100 … but our weekend attendance over 5 services averages 5000
so there are a LOT of people not coming Thursday night.

Here’s what I’m thinking:
Run the house mix into a P4-2GHz-1GB ram XP box running the encoder.
Media Services 9 will run on a PowerEdge dual Xeon-3GHz-4GB ram running
Server2003 Enterprise Ed which is also functions as our terminal services
server and sharepoint.
Q: Should the encoder push to the server or should the server pull in this
scenario??
Q: Can I set the encoder to turn on and off at specific times? I only want
people to have access to the live stream during the service.
Q: What minimum bit rate would yield acceptable audio quality and keep the
size small as possible for dial up users?
Any other suggestions/recommendations?
Thanks!

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