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Proven and Scalable Comet Server

What is the most proven, scalable comet server solution out there that can handle up to 100.000 real-life connections per node using HTTP streaming (not long-poll)? It must be a free, preferably open-source project. We've already tried Meteor…
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Live video streaming: Microsoft or Adobe?

I am looking for a Live Video Streaming solution. The clients will be able to watch the video with a plugin (Flash or Silverlight), or a standalone application (Windows Media Player, FLV, etc). But I can't choose between Microsoft Solution (Windows…
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How to set up a camera recorder to stream on a website?

I've to set up a website which will broadcast live video. A camera recorder will be pluged to a laptop. The laptop will send the data to a server (same as the http server) The video will be broadcasted through a flash player. What are the tools…
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5-10tb of data transfer required, on the cheap

I need to support about 5-10 tb/month of data transfer for downloadable screencasts. Since this a a free service, would you recommend me just using those 'unlimited bandwidth' 10/month hosters for this? If I was to provide streaming video, what…
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VLC or ffserver for http streaming

I don't like asking "OR" questions, but I can't find any comparison on the Internet. I need live http streaming using h264 in flv container. I managed to achieve this with VLC, but with big latency. I have some problems with ffmpeg and I can not…
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Should proxy_buffering be disabled in NGINX to support SockJS XHR Streaming?

I have a "single page" web application which requires bi-directional communication between client and server. The application was originally designed to rely on WebSockets, but has been modified to use SockJS, with WebSocket support…
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pg_archivecleanup not found Postgres 9.1, even though it is installed?

I have streaming replication setup on 2 Postgres 9.1 servers. Everything is ok apart from the archivecleanup. In the logs it says: sh: 1: pg_archivecleanup: not found 2013-11-19 09:17:37 GMT WARNING: archive_cleanup_command "pg_archivecleanup…
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Nginx + MP4 module: buffer limits are being ignored

I have an nginx/1.2.3 server compiled with --with-http_mp4_module as a pseudostreaming server. Streaming and seeking works fine except buffering. Tt seems like the buffer directives are being completely ignored. Here are the location declaration for…
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Streaming root/source in multicasting sparse mode

I'd like to verify if I understand multicasting correctly. In a pim sparse-mode configuration, the RP rtr becomes the "root" of the stream for the rest of the configured routers. Does this mean that destination hosts clients will get their stream…
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Tracking down "Connection reset" errors in Linux

I'm handling large numbers of concurrent downloads (approx. 500 per server) using Java. All the files are being downloaded from Amazon S3, and the downloading server is an EC2 m1.large instance. Occasionally, 2 or more of the streams will…
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CloudFront or other CDN with RTSP streaming?

So I've been bouncing between CDN's trying to optimize our serving solution. We're serving short video clips into our code that display either an html5 video element (MP4 or OGG) or a flash swf (FLV) as a fallback. We're using Amazon S3 for the…
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Can you stream an mp3 file with nginx?

I have a Ruby On Rails application running on Nginx which is serving out MP3s using JW player. I need to be able to set the start time and duration for playlist items. From what I can tell to do this I need be streaming the MP3 files. How can I…
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Hardware requirement for video serving to 400 concurrent users

I need to serve at least 400 concurrent users about 150MB of files (video/audio). What kind of hardware would you suggest is required? Planning to use Ubuntu for OS, and Apache for serving. The usage is for internal network and not over internet.…
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Video Surveillance Server Software

My company has about 25 cameras around our property and we need a server to store any motion on each of the cameras. We are currently using a software called "Digital Video Witness" which is fairly unimpressive. We are looking for a good server…
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W2k8 RC1: Windows Media Servers (WMS) as proxy

(fullquote from stackoverflow.com/questions/2690788/w2k8-rc1-windows-media-servers-wms-as-proxy/2690791#2690791) I will have one streaming-server (W2k8, unknown streaming protocol [rtsp, mss, http]) and half dozen streaming-servers as proxies to…
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