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Is RAID 0 or JBOD better for home media server?

I have an external two-bay drive enclosure (the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro) connected to a Mac Mini (my home media server) over FireWire 800. I'm streaming media to other computers in the house over wired gigabit. I have two 1.5 TB drives that I'm…
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NGINX Serving Large mp4 Files extremely inefficiently

I am currently running nginx/1.0.15 on a Centos 6.6 OS. The server has the following specs: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2750 @ 2.40GHz (8 cores) 32GB Ram 5 x 6000 GB 7200 RPM (Raid 10) The Problem The server has a 1Gbit/s connection, however it tops…
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How can I block Spotify on our company network?

How can I block Spotify on our company network? Unfortunately it's killing our bandwidth and the effect is really serious.
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Does nginx allow an upstream server to respond to and close a request before it has finished?

I have an image upload service that nginx proxies requests to. Everything works great. Sometimes though, the server already has the image the user is uploading. So, I want to respond early and close the connection. After reading the headers and…
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How to encode video to use HTML 5 video tag?

I'm trying to use
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Varnish config rules to cache large MP3 and PDF files?

Our site has a number of large PDF and MP3 files which we would like to cache in Varnish as static files. Currently we don't do much special - simply remove the cookies in vcl_recv and set resetp.ttl = 100w; in vcl_fetch. The problem seems to be…
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Save the stream to mp4 files

How can I keep the flow (protocol rtsp, codec h264) in file (container mp4)? That is, on input an endless stream (with CCTV camera), and the output files in mp4 format size of 5-10 minutes of recording time. OS: debian, ubuntu Software: vlc, ffmpeg…
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tail -f without the tail?

Is there a command in Solaris to read a file, and when it gets to the end to stream the way tail does? I need to read the file from the start, and it is a binary file. Information on Solaris and Linux would be appreciated.
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Are there high availability cluster solutions for real-time TCP streaming?

We have a server that receives some data, acting as a TCP client, processes it in some way, and serving processed data to clients, acting as a TCP server. It also stores this data on disk and can serve it from files instead of real-time stream. The…
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which internet audio streaming server can I use?

I need an audio streaming setup that supports the following formats: WMA, AAC and MP3. The streams must be compatible both with desktop players like Winamp. Win Media Player and with Flash Player and devices like iPhone, Android, etc. I'm looking…
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How to make H264 (.mp4) streaming module to work with lighttpd 1.5

H264 is not working with lighttpd 1.5, but it's ok with 1.4 Any suggestions?
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ffmpeg continue listen port

I'm trying to configure restream server, ffmpeg listen on rtmp://ip:port and output to few stream services(youtube, twitch...etc) the problem is when I stop OBS streaming(using this on local pc) ffmpeg on server going down and i need manually run it…
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Tools for load-testing a videoserver

I'm looking for a tool capable of setting up multiple RTSP streaming sessions and keeping them alive for a configurable amount of time. Ideally this should not be videoserver specific and as lightweight as possible. The only tools I know of…
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What is meant by "streaming data access" in HDFS?

According to the HDFS Architecture page HDFS was designed for "streaming data access". I'm not sure what that means exactly, but would guess it means an operation like seek is either disabled or has sub-optimal performance. Would this be…
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Getting the actual time that a video file is seeked to using nginx_mod_h264_streaming

I'm trying to set up a pseudostreaming site that has timed subtitles for h264 video files that are served via nginx_mod_h264_streaming + JW Player. The subtitles are automatically converted to a format that JW player can read, which is a PHP script…
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