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As far as I could find, Amazon S3 doesnt offer any plugins for making streaming video store 🙁

50+ videos each around 300-500 MB. I can’t store my videos on HostGator servers (they won’t allow it, and it would be a pretty big hassle anyway). Amazon S3 is easy to use, has a lot of plugins that are compatible with it, and would be pretty cheap for my application where I only expect only around 5-10 concurrent viewers at one time to start with, and maybe 50-200 viewers at one time when the ball really gets rolling.

So you said that you installed both the WPMU PPV as well as the membership plugins – Do they both work together to sell access to streaming video? Or do you only need 1? Sorry about all the questions, but its hard to find out if their plugins will work for what I need when they dont explicitly advertise their products as being able to “sell streaming digital content” (they always say either “sell digital downloads,” or “sell subscriptions to all your content!”, neither of which I want haha).

Thanks again,
Nate

Thanks for the info! Really appreciate it. I will ask my host if they permit streaming. Should I check with the host for my videos (Amazon S3), or the host of my website (Hostgator)?

Thanks for getting back to me. It did help, but I dont think that system is one I particularly want to pursue. Attached is a copy of an email I sent to a couple of e-commerce dev companies.

Hi,
I am trying to create a website that has videos available to be streamed by customers, at a cost. My website would have a store, where customers could “purchase” videos. Once purchased, the ability to stream that purchased video would be enabled on their account. There would be many videos to choose from, but only videos that were purchased by a customer (and so access was therefore granted to their account to watch that particular video) could be viewed by them.

I do want:
1) A library of purchasable videos on my website in which customers can build their own personal library of videos within that, based on what they paid for.

So far, only ContentShelf has gotten back to me, saying yes this is possible with their system. I think they have a free trial, so I’ll see how that goes.
Thanks again for getting back to me so quickly!
Nate

Hi There,

I am looking for exactly this type of functionality. Did you get anywhere trying to do this?

Thanks,
Nate