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Questions tagged [video-streaming]

This tag is about software that helps using a server to stream videos on the internet.

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How to run multiple NGINX instances for servers to be developed together but deployed separately

I'm an NGINX beginner who is building both an adaptive live video server (HLS & DASH) and a caching HTTPS reverse proxy server. While the servers will be deployed to separate boxes, I'd like to develop both on the same box so I can tune them in the…
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stream satellite signal to clients

In our new office I would like to allow some people to view satellite channels by setting up a streaming server and then allowing clients on different OSes (Windows, Linux & Mac) to view this stream in an application preferably VLC. At one time…
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Effects of packet loss on video streaming

We are sending an MPEG2-TS/H264 video stream over the network. This video stream is received correctly over the LAN, instead on the other end of a private WAN video quality is poor, thus suggesting packet loss over the network. However video…
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Replicate HTTP video stream from vlc output

I have: videocomputer: a webcam and vlc who publish video stream on port 8080 with cvlc -vvv v4l2:///dev/video1 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:1234}' (on ADSL with slow upload) webserver:…
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Nginx byte range cache issue with Safari

I'm having some issues with MP4 byte range caching and Apple browsers. I have a cache node that grabs content from a backend node, and caches it, and then serves it to users. This is done using nginx proxy_pass along with nginx caching. I found that…
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How to send a continuous stream through ssh

Given a named pipe, how can I send a continuous stream of this pipe through ssh? The netcat equivalent of what I am looking for is from client dd if=myfifo | nc -l 12345 from server nc 12345 > stream
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Can a Windows Server proxy cache streaming videos?

In a small school with limited connectivity could a proxy, running on Windows Server 2012, cache streaming videos such as Youtube? Or this is out of any proxy capability, due to architectural limits? This could be useful for instance, if all…
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NGINX Reverse Proxy, Config Video(MJPG) Stream to use a single connection to the Backend Server

I have a question/problem weather it is possible to configure a NGINX Reverse Proxy so that it does not Proxy every Request of a Video Stream to the Backend Server, instead Opening a Single Connection to get the Video stream and distribute it to the…
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configure nginx to autolaunch ffmpeg

I would like ffmpeg to be autolaunched from nginx when it starts and provide a converted dash stream for the users who visit my webserver. Right now I can go to: http://localhost:18080/dash/twitch.mpd but for this I have to run ffmpeg -re -i…
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Does multimedia redirection in RDP 7 support WebM now?

I was checking out this MSDN post describing multimedia redirection because it's high time we let our users view training videos through our app and not just email them a link. Windows Media Player uses the Media Foundation infrastructure to play…
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Video Streaming Fails on IIS 8

I am using FastCGI with IIS 8 on windows-server 2012. The server is hosting a Django based website. The website works fine until I stream the videos (which are saved in the media folder on the server and are webm files). FireFox does not render…
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Video Streaming through RTMP

I need to convert as RTSP live monitering URL rtsp://mylocation.4545 to RTMP url rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935/live/livestream1 Iam using following command through ffmpeg in centos ffmpeg -i "rtsp://127.0.0.1.4545/live" -f flv -r 25 -s 640x480 -an…
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NGINX configuration for video streaming server

I have purchased cloud server at digitalocean.com with 2GB RAM and DUAL CORE Processor. I want to set-up video proxy service i.e. to proxy youtube videos. I have installed NGINX + PHP-FPM server and UFW firewall. But when more than 10 to 20 users…
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How to enable streaming when file is delivered through PHP script?

I'm trying to enable mp4 streaming on my content server. Due to some security fanatics whom I working with all files are delivered through a php script and have the following url…
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How to set up an HTTP video-streaming server for 'tablet independent viewing'?

I have a situation in our lab where we have a lot of video tutorials and a lot of different tablets are being used by the members of the group. Everyone wants to be able to 'stream' the videos from the server machine. Since ubiquitous apps don't…
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