Questions tagged [video]
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IP cameras and servers
Has anyone set up an IP camera system before. I am looking for some reasonable cameras some for use outside and some for use inside. I would also like to know if there are any server/(networked storage) type box thingys that dont require me to buy…

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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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Video post production storage server - slow transfer speeds of small-ish files (1-2M) over SMB to ZFS pool. (CinemaDNG format)
I'm a Camera OP / Video editor, but I manage our post infrastructure for our team of 2 people at small production company.
We're having an issue with slow transfer speeds over the network from one of our cameras. This camera records to an SD card…
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How to convert any video to mp4 with php, ffmpeg and CentOS
I have been converting videos for about a year working in localhost on a Mac. The path is, '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg' and it has always worked fine. Recently, I installed ffmpeg on my server, with a CentOS 8 operating system, and the php script I have…

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Force-unload or reset a crashed linux driver
What options do I have to hard-reset a linux driver?
I have a problem with my USB-connected dvb tuners. They crash from time to time with a stack trace in the kernel log and disappear from the device manager. The application (tvheadend, which runs…

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Feature-Policy fullscreen not working as expected
I have NGINX running as a reverse proxy and set the Feature-Policy header with fullscreen to "self". The site itself contains the HTML5 video player, but unless I set fullscreen to "*" the fullscreen button on the video player is disabled. What…

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How can I measure the load capacity of my video encoding server and plan for scaling?
I have a server running on Amazon EC2 that acts as a video encoder (LAMP CentOS + FFMPEG). How can I load test it with video files and get an idea of how many encodings it can handle. I can't seem to find where FFMPEG keeps a log file or how to…

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Networked Remotely-Managed Media Player
We're looking to replace our current in-store video distribution model, which involves the production of a DVD ISO and several people burning discs and shipping them out.
Cost-benefit analysis shows that utilizing the existing WAN connections at…

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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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Server/storage choice for very low bandwidth video hosting
I have a unique project where I'm needing host several terabytes of short ~15mb mp4 video files, of which each video will only be viewed once.
Is a CDN recommended here? Or would a basic storage solution like AWS S3, or DigitalOcean's Block Storage…

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nginx proxypass for video/audio from amazon cloud drive
I have a mp3 file on my amazon cloud drive:
How can I make nginx proxy_pass to play this audio on chrome?
I need to get content range header, then send the content-range header to proxy server.
Configuration:
location /match/here.mp3 {
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Upload a large video
I have bought a dedicated server from DigitalOcean and built a website using WordPress. I have a video of 822Mb; I want to add this video to a page of my website such that visitors can directly watch this video on the page.
It seems that the steps…

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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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Video card does not work in server
I want to install a video card into a server. When it is inserted, server does not boot up and there is no video signal coming from video card. 4 LEDs at the back of the motherboard show pattern G-R-R-A which means "Disabling the console controller"…

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Stream Video on mobile website without download
Currently I'm linking to video files on my mobile site using an tag linking to the appropriate format of the video depending on the handset. This is done via php.
iOS/Android > links to mp4
BB/Nokia > links to 3gp
I'm using a code similar to…

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