Free Quality Traffic, Details Inside.

OK, here's the deal. This is going to a fairly long post, but its WELL worth the read.

The jist of this is that you will get TONS of FREE TRAFFIC, using an MPEG PUSH stream. You will get listed in the "InternetTV" directory of winamp's media library.

To see an example, get the latest version of winamp, install it, and open the media library...You'll get a directory of streams. Each in different categories. Notice the "BUZZ TV" servers? Click on one of those and see what happens. The details on how they got in on this idea are extremely dubious, so I figure why keep it all a secret, this is a great traffic source that everyone should know about.

Anyway, what I'm going to do is explain the process. Then I'm gonna take you step by step through the process of setting up your own server, encoding video and making money with this.

Here's what's going on.

Streaming video to the shoutcast directory is easy, the technical details go a bit like this.

You set up two things on your server. sc_serv & and sc_nsv The first is the actually server component that enables files to be streamed. The second is a component that allows a playlist of files to be chosen and sent to the shoutcast server and streamed to viewers, while at the same time announcing the existence and contents of the stream to the winamp directory.

Once you have a stream up and running and listed in the directory, you can now attract viewers. Once these viewers are attracted you can pop ads on them and you will get good amounts of traffic and you will make sales.

Here are some links on how to set up a server. Its not hard to do at all, if you can ssh or telnet into your server you can set this all up in a matter of hours and be getting traffic in no time flat.

The basic documentation can be found here.
http://www.shoutcast.com/support/docs/

Here you can find the shoutcast server components for nt or unix servers.
http://www.shoutcast.com/download/files.phtml

Here you can find the files and some documentation for the broadcasting components that annouce your stream to the shoutcast directory.
http://www.radiotoolbox.com/sc_nsv/

Here you can find the NSVtools that will encode your videos to NSV(Nullsoft Streaming Video) format.
http://www.nullsoft.com/nsv/nsvtools-setup.exe

Here's the way I set it up.

First I set up a sub domain on one of my domains, this is optional, I figured it would help keep things seperate.

open up an ssh session and get into the subdomain you created.
download the sc_serv binary and tar -xvzf it. I copied all the files into the root directory of the subdomain for ease of use.

Edit sc_serv.conf to your needs if you need help contact me. The default config is pretty correct...

Now go into the root of the domain and download and tar the sc_nsv files. Here the configuration is a bit more important make sure you set the password of the sc_server properly and that you are pointing the broadcaster at the server properly. One important thing I did is set the auto boot listener timer to 1. This way, no one will be able to watch your stream for longer than aminute before they get booted. Pop ads on them and boot them I say. NOTE: I had to install a linux emulator for my box cuz I'm on freebsd, its easy and I can tell you how to do it if you need, its probably already in your ports.

Now install the NSVtools on your local box, you'll need to run NSVenc from windows command line.

start>run>cmd

cd \Program Files\NSVtools

nsvenc /config

This will bring up the config settings for your encoding tools. This is important, this will determine the bandwidth you burn. Set the bitrate to no higher than 128, personally I killed the sound, and I set the framerate to 25. Your goal is not quality, your goal is to get something, anything up.

Now close the config and have your original video files ready to encode to nsv, I believe they must be in the same directory as the nsvtools so put them.

Encode your videos.

THIS IS IMPORTANT!
Open the nsv files locally in winamp. Play them, while they're playing open the playlist editor and right click the file and view file properties. Here is the header for the file, this is the real trick.

add TITLE=hTtP://thepageyouwanttopopintheminibrowser


the hTtP is a little gliche that autmatically switches the minibrowser to "now Playing" thus pulling up a page you specify and allowing you to pop ads from the minibrowser...and there's no popup killers available either so thats a plus.

You can also specify the url like this in the sc_nsv.conf file and it will work to...but it won't refresh everytime the stream loops.

Pick a program with some premade video's on their trailers...those work well

Now upload them to your content folder, it will be in the same directory as sc_serv by default.

Edit your playlist.plo fire up sc_serv with this command ./sc_serv, then send the process to the backgroud.

then fire up sc_nsv with this command ./sc_nsv and send that process to the background.

I can set this up in like 30 minutes or so...its not hard once you get it down. If you want it set up I can have you up and running inside an hour or so and I'll even encode a few video files for you, it'll cost you $100. OTherwise have at it.



This is yet ANOTHER great and innovative Idea that has been stolen and NOW its been shared with everyone...


So FUCK YOU! You know who you are! And to the rest of you...flood it! its good traffic and EASY money!

Here are some numbers that i did over 7 days with the server up only sporadically.






Plus I did about $50 a day with the epicmail program.