The h264 encoder can produce a higher quality video at a lower bitrate, saving you bandwidth costs. We encode all videos at 512kbps.
Load balancing server is capable of running simultaneously in an array of replicated servers to handle any volume of videos from our users.
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1421
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9005
http://www.elctech.com/articles/installing-ffmpeg-with-faac-and-x264-encoders-from-source-on-ubuntu
http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~h264/ (intro)
http://flowplayer.org/forum/7/12671
http://www.myownserver.info/index.php/additional-configurations-and-settings-linux/49-ffmpegpackagelinuxinstall.html
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/10/23/h264-encoder-benchmark/
http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/08/21/finally-flash-supports-h264-video/
http://www.flvhosting.com/help/viewthread.php?id=147
http://getonebyone.com/h264.html#Downloads
http://blog.monogram.sk/janos/2008/12/29/monogram-x264-encoder-1020/ (good)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095
http://me.dm/blog/2009/01/using-cloudberry-explorer-with.php
http://streamincloud.com/examples/
http://www.youtubehq.info/convert-your-video-to-h264-for-free/
http://bradrhoads.blogspot.com/2009/03/flash-with-high-quality-video-mp4-with.html
http://videocodecs.blogspot.com/
http://videos-flash.blogspot.com/2007/01/flash-video-streaming-and-open-source.html
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2008/08/hd-video-encoding-in-sync-with-ffmpeg.html
http://www.nazly.net/post/installing-ffmpeg-and-ffmpeg-php-on-centos-230/
http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2008/12/howto-compiling-ffmpeg-x264-mp3-xvid.html
http://www.austenconstable.com/2008/08/06/howto-compiling-the-latest-ffmpeg-x264-on-centos-4/
http://www.mediacollege.com/
Happy streaming!