RED5 vs FMS

[coyners25]

HI All,
We are currently launching a new on-demand travel videos website.
Videos are in FVL format and playing through Red5 streaming server on a dedicated rackspace server in the US. We have this working and some people have reported excellant quality of delivery etc. However others have reported videos are stop/starting a lot. They have checked other video sites and they run perfectly. So we are wondering where exactly can we improve our site?
Out video are high quality 300-400mb videos, 24FPS. Audio: Sample Rate 22050, 32Kbit/sec, mono

Is Red5 the issue? Would moving the videos to CDN improve things much?
Ant other considerations we need to take into account on the users side?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tks

[cata12]

Hello:

The internet connection is the most important thing to be taken into consideration. The download connection of your viewers needs to be very good in order to receive a smooth stream.
Also a small delay is normal if your servers are in the US and somebody from Europe for example is accessing the stream. I know a portal similar to yours and they are using FMS, good results and solid video quality. it s mozzen.com