Questions tagged [video-streaming]
This tag is about software that helps using a server to stream videos on the internet.
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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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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 ...
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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, ...
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stream satellite signal to clients
In our new office I would like to allow some people to view satellite channels by setting up a streaming server and then allowing clients on different OSes (Windows, Linux & Mac) to view this ...
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Nginx with rtmp module and ffmpeg adaptive stream is not creating master dash manifest
I have a working setup of nginx with the rtmp module working like a charm creating live streams with both dash and hsl. No problem so far.
When I try to enable ffmpeg transcoding for adaptive ...
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How to fix embedded videos slow buffering speed on CentOS 7 server?
The video bufferings when embedded on other websites are so low on speed. It waits a lot of time to buffer the video. When they are playing on own server without embed its okay to buffer.
Tried ...
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Reverse proxying a HLS stream with nginx
I have an upstream HLS stream that I need to proxy to the outside world. The provider doesn't want me to have more than one connection at a time. They basically do not want to deal with infrastructure ...
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different behaviour per filename and backend routing in NGINX
It's few days i'm bouncing my head on this problem but i cannot find a "elegant" solution.
I would like to use a NGINX server as streaming origin for some live channel to be distributed ...
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Limit inbound bandwidth on Live Streaming Linux
I'm new about servers and I'm working on a platform to streaming live events to an app and a webpage (The idea is to create a local YouTube on my country, Angola). Talking with my friends he warned me ...
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What is the best way to stream 24/7 content from a server, which can be exported as an m3u file?
I have 24 Lectures for my students, and I teach online to many people. I am trying to setup a server with IPTV software, so they can view the lectures going 24/7 and have VOD for other content related ...
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Nginx high IO issue
I run a small video streaming website and i've been noticing some problems with videos on my site.
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Replicate HTTP video stream from vlc output
I have:
videocomputer: a webcam and vlc who publish video stream on port 8080 with cvlc -vvv v4l2:///dev/video1 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,...
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Nginx byte range cache issue with Safari
I'm having some issues with MP4 byte range caching and Apple browsers. I have a cache node that grabs content from a backend node, and caches it, and then serves it to users. This is done using nginx ...
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Can a Windows Server proxy cache streaming videos?
In a small school with limited connectivity could a proxy, running on Windows Server 2012, cache streaming videos such as Youtube? Or this is out of any proxy capability, due to architectural limits?
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configure nginx to autolaunch ffmpeg
I would like ffmpeg to be autolaunched from nginx when it starts and provide a converted dash stream for the users who visit my webserver.
Right now I can go to:
http://localhost:18080/dash/twitch....
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Video Streaming Fails on IIS 8
I am using FastCGI with IIS 8 on windows-server 2012. The server is hosting a Django based website. The website works fine until I stream the videos (which are saved in the media folder on the server ...
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Video Streaming through RTMP
I need to convert as RTSP live monitering URL rtsp://mylocation.4545 to RTMP url rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935/live/livestream1
Iam using following command through ffmpeg in centos
ffmpeg -i "rtsp://127.0.0....
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NGINX configuration for video streaming server
I have purchased cloud server at digitalocean.com with 2GB RAM and DUAL CORE Processor. I want to set-up video proxy service i.e. to proxy youtube videos.
I have installed NGINX + PHP-FPM server and ...
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Lighttpd - byte range request doesn't work. can't stream mp4
Am attempting to use the lastest flowplayer. (if it could work it would be pretty awesome btw)
http://flowplayer.org
One of the cool things about it is it uses the new HTML5 video element and ...
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Darwin/Quicktime Streaming Server how to re-stream an HTTP video stream?
I want to configure Darwin/Quicktime Streaming Server to re-stream an HTTP stream coming from Adobe Media Server.
Can anyone recommend me a Idea how I could implement it?
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File/Video serving - server cluster configuration
I currently have 5 servers. 1 server is used as the main server which holds all the video files, the other 4 are replicated and fetches videos from the main server using rsync. Videos are delivered ...
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WMS server side playlist driving me crazy, any thoughts?
I have been working on setting up video streaming for employees from a website over http via Windows Media Services on Windows server 2008.
I have almost everything working the way I want but can't,...
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Installing apxs on windows 64
I'm trying to set up my localhost apache2.2, running on windows 7, as a flash streaming server. So far I've discovered that I need to install mod_flv, which means I need apxs.
I found apxs for win32 ...
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Sever config for live HTTP-segmented video
I am trying to find the most optimal machine configuration for a web cache that will serve HTTP-segmented video to a few thousand concurrent viewers.
The content is composed of periodically updating ...
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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 ...
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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’...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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multicast streaming, too much network traffic?
I am thinking of switching our streaming servers to use multicasting instead of registering multiple clients and duplicating the streams manually on the server. It seems to work very well. However, I ...
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Suggest CDN with Byte-Range requests support for streaming [closed]
I'm trying to find high load solution for streaming server.
The idea came to me this morning.
What about CDN or cloud storage with byte-range support. Basically flash player require only partial ...
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If two videos with the same source stream at the same time will they have separate cache files?
I was resolving an issue on StackOverflow (see my answer too), where I might stream the same video on the same webpage in two separate video elements. I don't really understand web file caching very ...
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Win 2008 - Stream Video To Multiple Monitors?
My question seems to be pretty simply presented but I'm in need of some help. I've got a Win 2008 R2 server and 5 monitors stationed throughout an office. These are just NEC Monitors with VGA/DVI (...
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nginx - Takes too long for a connection to be established
I am new to nginx, and I am using it currently on my server to serve videos to users. a few days ago the server started becoming extremely slow while have around 500-600 users online, note that I have ...
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Maintaining same TCP session, load balacing
With http live streaming (HLS) we need to deliver video segments one after other to the player to play them in a continuous fashion. Segments are present on many streaming servers and we would load ...
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How can I develop a strategy for serving 45 second videos to hundreds of thousands of users? [closed]
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 ...
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What do you mean by windows media service (Live and on demand) [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 --...
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HTTPS streaming and dynamic load balancer using Wowza and AWS
We are using Wowza instances to perform live streaming on AWS infrastructure. We have a script that monitors load balancer and launches/kills instances when required based on the number of connections/...
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Video Streming server outbound bandwidth and providers [closed]
Imagine the case of Twitter Periscope or Meerkat.The paradigm of their servers is that they recieve video from users and then stream it to a large amount of users (say > 100K for the sake of this ...
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nginx http_mp4_module pseudostreaming
I'm using Nginx 1.2.3 with http_mp4_module installed and trying to make pseudostreaming server using it. When I'm trying to set start position less than 25 everything works like a charm:
http://192....
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Hardware advice for video sharing website similar to Youtube but much smaller user base [closed]
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 ...
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How can i track how much bandwidth is used by a streaming video
I have a website that has limited streaming for my clients. This has grown beyond the initial intent and has become a bit of an issue with my bandwidth charges.
My question is: on IIS is there a way,...
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Encrypting/Decrypting MPEG-2 Transport Stream in realtime [closed]
I have to send unicast mpeg2ts stream from one datacenter to another (dc1 to dc2). The output I get from encoder bank in dc1 is not encrypted and I need to encrypt it before sending it to dc2. At dc2 ...
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