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Questions tagged [video-hosting]

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controlling access while caching video content on-site on client's network

we have many hours of video training courses that we want to deliver on-site to clients with encryption or something to control access Currently , we offer via website (eg like udacity), but some large companies want it on-site due to internet…
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Server bandwidth for video streaming website

I need to put on a website videos that can ba shown using a common swf player (like flowplayer). Videos are about 3/4 minutes each (400 MB) in MPEG4/H264 compression. I was thinking to buy a normal hosting plan package. But how much bandwidth/month…
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Buffering when serving videos through AWS CloudFront

We are hosting videos in AWS S3 in HLS format (lots of .ts files, + playlists .m3u8). We have configured AWS CloudFront with all Edge locations to serve those files. We have 2 apps, iOS and Android, with a video player that plays the CloudFront…
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Progressive video download in a classroom environment - how to determine bandwidth needed

Background: We need to deliver a video heavy e-learning course to a classroom of ~15 users. This video will be MP4 delivered via HTML5 video so progressive download. As from what I can gather you can't stream to HTML5 Video. These 15 users will be…
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Need practical advice for handling the traffic spike when releasing new videos to the enterprise

The CEO wanted everyone in the company to view a 5 minute video. I signed up for a corporate account with Vimeo and hosted the video there. We sent out a global email with the link at 9:30 this morning. By 9:45, we received a dozen complaints of…
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NGINX: dynamic locations stored in DB

Is there a possibility to store nginx locations in DB instead of the config to serve them dynamically? The task is to create dynamic URLs for video files based on user's IP and video ID. The idea is when the user visits my website such an dynamic…
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Video Hosting, Conversion, and Streaming Solution

I currently offer the option to my users to upload their own video and have it converted to FLV and MP4 on my website. Here are the logistics: 1) User uploads video onto website 2) Raw video is then transferred (via SFTP) to another hosting…
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How to share video file (DVD) in company's network to employees without them being able to take it home?

I have small network with 50+ users with SBS 2003, MOSS 2007 and File server (all Microsoft software). We've got some video's that we want to share with users without them being able to save it and take home (don't want them to end up on youtube).…
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How to simulate high video payload to benchmark an SSD?

I'm trying to evaluate some SSDs for a video on-demand use-case. We've done some benchmarking tests on them, but we'd like to get an idea of the number of video streams that they can support with a more realistic load test than typical benchmark…
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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 general advice... I would like to use Flowplayer, and…
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Securing CloudFront video on a SaaS platform

I have few videos which needs to be embedded in a SaaS LMS platform. Is there a possibility of making it available only if played from the SaaS platform. I looked at the Origin Access Identity - they all operate on IP based restrictions - same thing…
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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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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 (they may have hdmi but I'm not sure) inputs;…
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How can I develop a strategy for serving 45 second videos to hundreds of thousands of users?

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 whether I should use Linode, a cloud file service or a…
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FLV Files Open in browser (text) no download prompted

I'm just wondering if there's a certain setting on my server or something that is causing flv files to open in the browser when you go to then, and display all the gibberish text rather than prompt for download or begin playing in the default media…
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