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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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Hard drives, how to calculate read and write speeds supported?

Possible Duplicate: dell 2T 7.2k nearline SAS 6Gbps- ingress/egress throughput I don't have access to machine/drive, but need to define specs to purchase one. What all things would it be dependent on? Using RAID 10, would improve it? Would it be…
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How can I develop a strategy for serving 45 second videos to hundreds of thousands of users?

I am closing up development on a web site that allows people to watch thousands of videos which are on average 45 seconds in length. I'll be hosting the web application on Linode, but I'm unsure whether I should use Linode, a cloud file service or a…
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Does Darwin/Quicktime Streaming Server follow symlinks?

I have DSS running quite happily on a Macmini using the default media folder (/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies). However, I want to be able to stream video located in a different directory. I've tried creating symlinks in the default media folder…
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Streaming Audio Video

We're currenty using Windows Media Services to stream live and on demand audio/video. We're currently looking for a solution that's more cross-platform compatable (iOS compatable). I've looked into the new IIS Media Services, but it falls short of…
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3gp file streaming server in Fedora

I want to set up a streaming server to stream 3gp videos on-demand. I've tried using ffmpeg, but it seems ffmpeg doesn't support 3gp streaming. It gives an error saying Codec for stream 0 does not use global headers but container format requires…
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Serving flowplayer from cherokee webserver

When I download flowplayer locally on my machine and open index.html, the example video runs fine, no problems. I have a linode running cherokee 1.2.2 with a basic 'List and Send' virtual server setup. If I simply download the flowplayer zip, unzip…
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What do you mean by windows media service (Live and on demand)

I have one enquiry from my end customer regarding windows media streaming services (Live and on Demand) One Publishing point for live audio stream (push to server method) for windows Media 9 streaming service; shall be able to stream to a maximum of…
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External Video Hosting - will it eat my bandwidth?

I hava asked this question before, but have been unable to get a clear answer or spammy ones. A client runs a website with limited bandwidth per month (10gb) but wants his users to be able to download hq videos. Now if he would rent hosting space on…
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Video Hosting External or Internal?

I have a client who wants to offer videos for downloading or streaming on his website. Now we have hosting for him, which is wonderful: it's reliable and fast, offers unlimited space and databases BUT it only offers 10GB in bandwidth. The videos…
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What Sort of Server Setup Am I Likely to Need? - School A/V streaming

My prior experience with servers has generally been limited to home file-sharing servers, low-traffic web-servers, and the like. This leaves me with the technical knowledge of how to set up a system, but little experience in terms of scaling said…
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Should I host my site on my own hardware for streaming media site?

We are developing a new movie review site, more or less similar to RottenTomatoes. Now since there will be a lot of streaming of movie trailers and we are expecting medium traffic, do you think 3rd party web hosting will cost a lot? Should we rather…
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Quicktime Streaming and protecting movies?

I am setting up a Quicktime Streaming server on OS X 10.6 so users can view movies that I make. I want to ensure that they cannot steal the movies however. Two questions arise on how would I do this? What permissions would I give the directory that…
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serving video / ffmpeg (how to cut out the SaaS middleman!!)

what is the full life-cycle of a video file that is sitting on [any server] and ends up being viewed by the consumer. e.g this company show its architecture:http://www.pandastream.com/arch it seems to me all they are doing is running ffmpeg and…
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multiple streaming servers behind a Bastion Host

I am using open source streaming server Red5 on multiple servers. Which are running behind a bastion host. the world knows these sites as http://site1.mydomain.com http://site2.mydomain.com http://site3.mydomain.com http://site4.mydomain.com To…
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HTTP Live Streaming - How to do the encryption on Linux?

I am making some HTTP Live Streaming files (an Apple based way to segment video files so they can be 'streamed' by downloading specific chunks of a file (more info)). It's possible to 'encrypt' each of the segments with a simple key, as a simple…
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