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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 cache streaming video and silverlight with squid windows reverse proxy

We have an intranet web server running a silverlight application (ACTUS media monitor if anyone cares to know). The server is used to record video and stream it to clients through a CDN solution. We want to put a reverse proxy in between the server…
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Lighttpd - byte range request doesn't work. can't stream mp4

Am attempting to use the lastest flowplayer. (if it could work it would be pretty awesome btw) http://flowplayer.org One of the cool things about it is it uses the new HTML5 video element and supports random seeking/playback. In order to do this,…
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Limit video streaming with lighttpd & Mod_h264 for x minutes

I'm running video streaming with lighttpd & mod_h264 on CentOS. Now, I want to set to client can only watch the movie for the first x minutes. Example: 10 minutes. Who can give me a solution for this? Thanks !
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CloudFront - first access

We are storing video files in Amazon S3-Buckets, and do the playout via CloudFront. Unfortunately, although CloudFront has an origin-pull mechanism, the files are only transferred from S3 to the edges on first request. This leads to the problem,…
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Darwin/Quicktime Streaming Server how to re-stream an HTTP video stream?

I want to configure Darwin/Quicktime Streaming Server to re-stream an HTTP stream coming from Adobe Media Server. Can anyone recommend me a Idea how I could implement it?
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Can an internet connection be more robust when connecting through a VPN?

During live streams some viewers experiencing problems with the stream like dropouts and artifacts although they have a 100MBit line what makes me assume the problems are caused by packet loss. Could a VPN to the streaming source network improve…
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File/Video serving - server cluster configuration

I currently have 5 servers. 1 server is used as the main server which holds all the video files, the other 4 are replicated and fetches videos from the main server using rsync. Videos are delivered through HTTP via nginx pseudo streaming. What I…
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Reliable Multicast Programming (PGM) on Windows

I want to use the Reliable Multicast Programming (PGM) protocol on Windows. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740125%28v=vs.85%29.aspx I know Windows support it. However, it seems that I need network devices (routers and…
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WMS server side playlist driving me crazy, any thoughts?

I have been working on setting up video streaming for employees from a website over http via Windows Media Services on Windows server 2008. I have almost everything working the way I want but can't, for the life of me, figure out how to display…
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How to share video file (DVD) in company's network to employees without them being able to take it home?

I have small network with 50+ users with SBS 2003, MOSS 2007 and File server (all Microsoft software). We've got some video's that we want to share with users without them being able to save it and take home (don't want them to end up on youtube).…
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Installing apxs on windows 64

I'm trying to set up my localhost apache2.2, running on windows 7, as a flash streaming server. So far I've discovered that I need to install mod_flv, which means I need apxs. I found apxs for win32 from Building Apache modules on Windows, but when…
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Are there CDN for streaming video content with custom configuration of media servers

My company currently is using CloudFront as Content Distribution Network. But recently we need some additional configuration to the media server they are using for streaming our video content. But... Amazon does not provide such service, we couldn't…
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Sever config for live HTTP-segmented video

I am trying to find the most optimal machine configuration for a web cache that will serve HTTP-segmented video to a few thousand concurrent viewers. The content is composed of periodically updating text files (called manifests) which are a few…
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Server 2008 Std. Audio and Video very choppy on termials

I have a server running Server 2008 std. and about 10 Wyse C10le that connect to it via RDP. My users are complaining about poor streaming quality and choppy video/audio. Is there anything I can do to increase the quality? I have looked into this…
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Experience using Wowza Media Server for Amazon EC2?

Question 1: WHat have people's experiences been with using Wowza Media Server 2 for Amazon EC2 (http://www.wowzamedia.com/ec2-streaming.html) We're planning to use it to allow streaming experience for all of our stored videos (which are on…
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