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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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Can a CDN support streaming?

I operate Grinderschool.com, a poker training site run through video sessions. Our subscribers access our videos via either 1) direct download or 2) streaming access. Currently, we have things set up in a shared hosting environment, however I am…
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Send HD video over SONET

In an effort to test our new OC 192 network, we would like to find a way to stream HD video over it for a demonstration. We are looking for a device or combination of devices that connects to HDMI on one side and has a XFP client interface on the…
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How many copies of files are needed by video server?

A quick question. How many copies of the same movie are kept in a video server (a video streaming server)? Suppose a particular video is at max requested by 1000 users at the same instant of time, how many copies would be sufficient so that parallel…
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Casting videos from one PC to multiple displays over an Ethernet Network

have a set of 6 television displays spread over 3 floors and a central personal computer at one of these floors. There exists an Ethernet cat6 cable network in the building with ports at the location of the displays and the PC. All these ports are…
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Some Double Nvr Problems in same Network

We have a network camera system with 60 ip cameras. I realized today that some of the cameras are freezing. Approximately 30% cameras are freezing. I check cameras itself and network cables; all working normally. And then i checked the system…
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CDN video caching duration

Are there any standards about for how long (days, weeks) do CDNs cache video content? This other answer suggested that it is only for a short period of time (e.g. 1 day) but that information is almost a decade old by now. For regular (non-video)…
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What is the correct nginx configuration to proxy_pass to a local VLC video stream?

I want to be able to forward my IP Camera's feed to a website. I want to make my website public via my nginx server (on Ubuntu 20.04). First of all, I use VLC to re-stream my IP cameras feed: vlc --intf dummy -vvv…
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RTMP/HLS Streaming Server operating on NGINX with Video.JS to provide live stream with mixed results

I work for a small government entity that wants to provide live streams of board meetings for the public. We use OBS to do our encoding and it has never given us any problems, but lately we have had a lot of complaints that our live stream loses…
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Video streaming via UDP on gigabit ethernet = packet lost

We are observing a strange behavior on a video streaming application over UDP on the same LAN. The sender send an H264 video via UDP through ethernet configured as 1000BaseT-FD, the receiver receive the video through the ethernet cable in…
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How to reduce my server's bandwidth usage?

I am running a video hosting server using Ubuntu 18.04 with nginx and server's configs are 500gb SSD, 100TB monthly bandwidth and 1gbps network. I am using nginx amplify to monitor all the traffic, storage and bandwidth usage on my server. I have…
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Need help to choose a desktop or server for the 50 clients in a local network?

We are going to build a application for school labs. Each lab contains maximum 60 students and all the students has to be connected in a local network. Each student will get a Android tablet or a desktop to watch the videos which will be served from…
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Hardware requirement for video serving to 1000 concurrent users

Can someone help us, we are looking to roll out a video on demand platform to provide internal staff the ability to view content. we will need to stream to 1000 users, the video files will be 720p videos of max size typical 250MB. they will all be…
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Do I really need cdn for video delivery?

If I'm going to create video delivery site for big country (Russia), should I use CDN for video? I believe, that store video in two places, Tokyo (for East part of country) and Frankfurt (for West part of country) for example much cheaper than load…
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Starting ffserver on macos - Permission Denied

I am trying to start ffserver on Snow leopard. dev:~ Shashank$ ffserver -d -f /usr/etc/ffserver.config I get this in my terminal. ffserver version 1.1.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers built on Feb 27 2013 00:48:40 with gcc 4.2.1…
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Large File Uploads? SWFUpload?

So, we offer video services and have run into an issue with people uploaded large file sources. I realized that our developer was utilizing php HTTP uploads to handle this and that was causing the slow times & breakdowns. Now, they keep coming at me…
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