Streaming

[tranquille]

Hi there,
Thank you guys for providing such a neat service.... although I haven
´t tested it.. it looks very compelling.
I was wondering which streaming technology/server you are using?
thanks in advance!

tranquille

[Damien Tanner]

Hi,

Currently videos are served progressively from S3, but we have played
with Red5 streaming server, and it wouldn't be too much work to do so
in production.

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[Andy Waite]

What are the advantages of using a streaming server over plain HTTP
streaming?

Andy

[Damien Tanner]

A streaming server allows users to skip to any point in the video
without having to first download it all.

Kind Regards,
Damien Tanner
Co-Founder and Director, New Bamboo

Creating fresh, flexible and fast-growing web applications is our
passion.

+44 (0)78 6312 7999
+44 (0)20 7099 7486
http://www.new-bamboo.co.uk

[RTG]

Hi Damien,

we are currently using red5 for streaming, but the main reason for
this is just doing some security checks serverside. I haven't looked
at the details of your delivery, but since you have NGNIX in place of
your service you could simply use it's pseudo streaming module to
provide http based streaming. This is known also from light_http which
is used by youtube, but from the ressource usage NGINX is also a good
choice. Red5 is also nice, but for heavy loaded one way streaming
scenarios pseudo streaming is enough.
This would mean that you at least have to recompile your NGINX on the
EC2 instance to provide this.

Thanks for your efforts and releasing panda to community,
RTG

On 18 Sep., 22:16, Damien Tanner <dam...@new-bamboo.co.uk> wrote:
> A streaming server allows users to skip to any point in the video
> without having to first download it all.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Damien Tanner
> Co-Founder and Director, New Bamboo
>
> Creating fresh, flexible and fast-growing web applications is our
> passion.
>
> +44 (0)78 6312 7999

> +44 (0)20 7099 7486http://www.new-bamboo.co.uk

[Damien Tanner]

Hi RTG,

Good idea, we'll be sure to include the NginxHttpFlvStreamModule in
the next image release.

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[RTG RTG]

You can for sure go forward and checkout red5, the guys are doing a great job and they have very alive mailing list, but it handles real RTMP streaming, and the learning curve and the deployment are more time intensive, if you want just provide some streaming. To provide both might be an option. And be aware of the license limitations of the JWL PLayer version 4, they included limitations if the player is used in or for context of ads, which made it unsusable for some of my ongoing projects.
So far we will check out panda for us soon and provide you some feedback.
I am just wondering that the fu_attachment is able to store straight forward to an S3 bucket, don't remember but even without an iFrame.
Might simplify your process if you look at what they are doing. more neat stuff is also possible with NGINX Download and espcially Upload as described by Ezra here
http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/07/20/nginx-upload-module

RTG

2008/9/23 Damien Tanner <dam...@new-bamboo.co.uk>

[Damien Tanner]

Hey,

Yes! I've added this to our list and hopefully next week we'll have
some time to look at Red5 after MySQL is complete. It would be
wonderful to have it all setup on the EC2 image so you can just switch
it on if you want streaming.