Common streaming video options are Microsoft's Windows Media, Real Networks' Real Player and Apple's QuickTime. Real Player, for example, requires a Real Server. Microsoft's Windows Media requires an NT Streaming server. Another consideration is that video takes a great deal of disk space. Large archive, low activity rates are substantially less.
Many Web hosts charge for bandwidth over a certain amount.
Therefore, heavy usage may put your over your monthly bandwidth limit, resulting in additional charges. If you supply a digital videotape, production typically takes two hours. Multiple segments, spliced together into a production with e.g., music and voiceovers, can run four to twenty hours, depending upon the production requirements, length and goals. Bear in mind that viewers who are not Web-savvy may judge presentations from their frame of reference, e.g., TV or movies. You must set the expectations of your viewers to the fact that the Internet does not support TV-quality viewing.