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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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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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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…
thesmart
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Streaming proxied responses with gzip on nginx

I have an nginx reverse proxy in front of a node.js backend server. In my node app, I am able to stream responses as they become ready, so that the client can start downloading resources referenced in the section of the HTML before the entire…
Dominic P
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OS X network stack ignores IGMP membership queries

We have a remote site where the Macs are not responding to IGMP membership queries, but the Windows boxes do respond. Consequently, after about 10 minutes, the IGMP-aware network switch cuts off the multicast stream to the Macs. Here is a screen…
Warren Young
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How to encode video to use HTML 5 video tag?

I'm trying to use
lexsys
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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…
Nic Cottrell
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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…
Ruslan Sharipov
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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…
Sergei Tachenov
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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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