http-streaming

Ajax Http Streaming pattern

Hi. I want to do a fairly simple implementation of a chat app using rails. from a theoretical standpoint I feel that ajax streaming pattern should be the way to go. However I am not sure, how it works and what are the potential disadvantages of this pattern? Is there anything better that I can use. My requirement is to have four people...

HTTP Streaming for less than 1000 daily views

I want to use http streaming (ie. partial download) to serve some videos (medium to HD quality) to public. Idea is to have videos on server and offer some web page with embedded video player for user to watch selected video. Planned capacity is about 250 to 1000 daily views, with low concurrency requirement (ie. not many users in para...

Android Video Streaming

I need HTTP/RTSP Video Streaming with Android. Any Ideas ? Is that possible to go with JMF with Android ? Any Working examples ? Already tried with http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/android-videomusic-player-sample-from-local-disk-as-well-as-remote-urls/ Its not working with my case. Are there any specific types of videos that A...

Streaming with Node.js, or any other Comet solution.

I'm trying to build a streaming solution for an internal app, but am drawing blanks for a solution to get past a roadblock. Currently, in my working example, I'm using APE, but due to restrictions I can't have any foreign running processes on the host machine, so I can't run the APE server. I'm looking for alternatives, but everything I...