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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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Stream host - developer prespective question

Without many details, I have a request to develop a live stream service web site. I do see it quite hard to archive on a shared host environment, due to bandwidth constrains. Free webservices lack on speed and are more related to individuals that…
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Caching Steaming Videos in Proxy (Squid)

Has somebody been able to cache Youtube videos on Squid (recently as old configs dont work)? If so, kindly direct me to the configuration.
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Win2k3 Media Services - archiving video and indexing for Silverlight

I’m stuck with a WME9-based live video streaming client, which streams to a Win2k3 SP1 Windows Media Server. The server archives the file for on-demand playback after the live broadcast is over. I’ve recently switched from using a WMP plugin for…
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How do I stream video fast and what is required?

My school is setting up a professional television studio that is going to be recording a 1080p stream into a server I am expected to design with a $5000 budget. I do not know what format the video will be coming to me in, all I know is that they…
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Linux media streaming server?

we need to implement a media/video streaming solution on Linux, a-la youTube but for our internal use. Any decent open source tools for this?
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How can I transcode a FLV video directly to mp3 on CentOS?

Okay so i have this idea for a weekend project where I want to transcode flv/mp4 streams directly into mp3 format. How can I easily do that via PHP/Apache on a CentOS Server? (hopefully not as CPU intensive as FFMPEG) Any idea's are appreciated! :)
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Server bandwidth usage with rtmp streaming of video

Quick question - I am streaming video from Cloudfront using RTMP streaming via an SWF-based flash player on my EC2 instance. With this setup will I see I/O data from the EC2 instance on account of the streaming via the flash player on the…
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System architecture of Cam Chat Websites (tinychat, omegle, cam4)

Do anybody know what kind of system architecture is behind Websites like tinychat, omegle, cam4, chatroulette? And how much bandwith is needed per connection? If I'm not wrong they use some video streaming Server like Flash Media Server, Wowza…
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Help: Setting up Red5 on Ubuntu. Can't load install demo pages

I am attempting to set up a Red5 streaming server in order to live stream FLV files (not pseudo stream, not on-demand stream, but real live stream). I went through the usual process - install java, install ant, make the distribution, copy the…
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Help: Setting up a basic live stream viewable in a browser

The end goal of my project is to create a system which records TV from a TV capture card, streams it live viewable in a web page, and stores a copy on the hard drive. It seems like a rather simple concept, but I've been struggling with this for…
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Streaming Flash Video - getting my feet wet

I'm working on a project that will involve having a couple thousand short videos online. I haven't done anything with online video before and this is all a bit new to me, so I am looking for some general advice... I would like to use Flowplayer, and…
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Need advice on how to set up live video streaming to web/mobile devices

I have a bunch of live udp video streams that currently are viewed by set top boxes in my network. I would like to pick this video up (I can do this with vlc now) and stream it out to other non-STB endpoints (webpage or a phone/tablet of some…
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Server for live audio/video streaming

I need to build a server for a website that will stream live audio and video. The functionality will be like www.ustream.tv with channels with one broadcaster and unlimited subscribers (who can only chat via text). The stream will have several…
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Video on demand streaming for Gentoo ppc64

I want to setup a vod streaming server on my ppc64 Gentoo. It should be able to : Work headless. Stream to iPhone, MacOS and if possible to Linux (rtsp protocol ?). Stream different formats like avi or mp4. Work for a small number of clients (max…
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Does Nginx aio work with linux?

We have a VOD service and we are using nginx as webserver. Our system doesn't use nginx-vod-module instead it just has all the small m4s files for a dash stream. I came across this article(Thread Pools in NGINX Boost Performance 9x) by Valentin…
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