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Multiple user video jukebox for school-wide teaching usage

I work in a school. I want to build a video server that I can upload video to from DVDs, VHS tapes and other sources, and have teachers select and play to their classroom projectors. It would need to serve 12 independent streams. Has anyone any…
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Drivers for Dell Precision M90 and Windows Server 2008 (R1)

I am trying to get multi monitor support for a laptop. I have installed Windows Server 2008 (R1) x64 and none of the dell drivers for the laptop seem to work (I have tried the x64 ones for Vista and XP, they don't offer Win7 ones yet). Drivers…
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Hardware H.264 video encoders for production use?

I'm involved in a project that will involve encoding H.264 video from several sources for live, real-time transmission over the 'net, and it'd be nice to avoid having to dedicate an entire CPU-heavy server for every 1 or 2 sources. Some searching…
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Debian ethernet interface goes down while streaming video

While streaming video FROM a debian box to the rest of a network, I regularly see the ethernet interface go down on this box after a couple hours of streaming and it doesn't come back up until the box is rebooted. It's very mysterious in that there…
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Cannot create windows HVM with SDL in xen 4.4.1

I want to create a win HVM, and set sdl=1. I was able to do so. But after I upgraded to xen-4.4.1, I got this error libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:1371:device_model_spawn_outcome: domain 4 device model: spawn failed (rc=-3) libxl: error:…
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Reasonable file size for streaming video?

I currently have some video files ranging from 2 - 3 hours that I'd like to stream over RTMP/HLS. I'm wondering if there are any best practices to ensure smooth streaming, for example: Is there a best ratio for file-size/duration when streaming? Is…
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Is multicast appropriate for sending a copy of a video chat to a server?

I am creating a p2p video chat app using the libjingle/WebRTC code. I would like to collect a copy of these video conversations on our server for users to watch later - but I don't want to suck up too much of the user's bandwidth. Is multicast…
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Caching video content on CDN

I'm currently running an application that delivers streaming video. All of the video content is hosted on our server, but we'd like to take some of the bandwidth load off of our server and speed up delivery to users. Is it possible to setup a CDN…
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nginx hotlinking prevention

I know this is quite a basic question, but whereas i had no problem preventing image files from hotlinking, i can't figure out how i can't protect mp4 video files… i just tried to specify mp4 next to jpg, (that's the two filetypes i need to…
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Streaming Video from Linux to Windows

I have been searching on the Internet but find no straight answer on what to use in this case. Basically, I have a client that has an Icecast radio streaming server running on Linux. People are able to listen to his radio by connecting on his…
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how to getting video duration from shell

How to get video duration from shell!? I have a directory with too many videos file. I want to print duration of total of the file in directory.
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How can I install VLC on RHEL 6.3?

I'm having a problem installing VLC on Red hat 6.3 When I try to use yum install vlc all goes well until it shows me this in the end: Error: Package: vlc-2.0.3-6.el6.x86_64 (linuxtech-release) Requires:…
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webm html5 videos lose connection with apache server

webm html5 videos that are played through a domain on my server sometimes lose connection. A video that is playing will start to buffer and then stop part of way through with that message "Video playback aborted due to a network error." displayed on…
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Hardware advice for video sharing website similar to Youtube but much smaller user base

Currently I have two servers which are named (ProcessServer1 and ProcessServer2) that will do nothing but convert videos that users upload, into flv or mp4 format. The conversion settings are 512k although I don't think this matters for what I'm…
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Sharepoint Wiki: Can you embed anything other than images and hyperilnks? Specifically, .swf?

Is it possible to embed anything other than hyperlinks and pictures in a Sharepoint Wiki? I was trying to insert a client-side .swf flash video, but I am having some trouble, since it seems that tags are being removed. If I can't embed…
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