Delivery Options For Live Video To Very Small User Base?

[Slack Alice]

Hi,

Total noobie here, can anyone please advise me what my best options would be for delivering live video content from an event to a very small user base?

The user base will be 10 users or less, the live video will be in SD (not HD) and if possible I would like some type of access control so prevent unauthorised users accessing the live web stream.

I have looked at JustinTV and USTREAM etc and to get the access control, I need to use their premium services which comes out quite expensive.

Could I just stream this from a PC in some type of file sharing where I configure a router to allow the 10 users through the firewall to a file on the PC? Or, do I need to get it hosted by some type of CDN?

As I said above, total noob and clueless on how to go about this in the best manner. My requirements are to get good quality web streaming with access control to a very small user base at low cost.

I have reasonable hardware such as an i5 PC, Osprey capture card, camera and have downloaded a few software encoders but not installed them yet. The steps involving delivery to users is where I am clueless. The users will probably view mainly on a PC, possibly a mobile phone or tablet.


Thx
Alice