video-streaming

Is there a compatible way to serve videos to mobile devices?

I was wondering how to embed a video on a webpage to have it compatible with mobile devices. I am kinda new to the whole mobileweb. So I set up some testing pages and tried them out with some devices of my friends. Flash is obviously not the way to go. Embed tag neither. html5 video tag neither. I also tried to nest them for fallback com...

Is Android 2.2 HTTP progressive streaming = HTTP Live Streaming?

The Stagefrigh media framework (Android 2.2) supports HTTP progressive streaming. What's that means? I.e. is this an HTTP Live Streaming protocol realization? And how to use HTTP Live Streaming on Android, I mean what's the client - web browser, MediaPlayer or just "in-SDK" realization and I have to inherit from some class? Thanx. ...

ONVIF : How to form the device web service address from the IP address of an NVT.

Hi; My question is about the ONVIF specification. http://www.onvif.org/imwp/download.asp?ContentID=18006 In section 5.10, it says : A service is a collection of related ports. This specification does not mandate any service naming principles. Lets say that I have the IP address of an NVT (Network Video Transmitter like an IP camera...

Access to the iOS' video decoder?

The iPad/iOS has video streaming support for e.g. H.264 using MPMoviePlayerController etc., but i receive H.264 data through a custom, proprietary, stream and need to decode it in a soft real-time scenario. Can the iPads/iOS' video decoder be accessed in any way to decode this data? Update: Apparently the iOS 4.0 Core Media Framework su...

How to get started implementing a video streaming server in c/c++?

In my project I need a dedicated server that dispatches the streams over to multiple clients. More specificly, I've a callback function that gets called to gather the stream data, but no idea how to stream it over to other applications. What's the best way to get started on this ? ...

Android how to video record, upload, transcode, download, play.

I'm researching the development of an Android (2.2) app/service that will enable users to record short (I do emphasize short, < 30seconds) video on their phones and then upload that video (HTTP) to a server that will then transcode the video to other formats. That same user can download videos from other Android users and play them. No...

Which design pattern to choose

Hi, i need a pointer i the right direction. I have been looking around and cant seem to find any design pattern (GoF) that will point me in the right direction. I am developing a small digital signage application prototype, where there is a simple server and an amount of player applications (displaying an image/video) connected to this ...

Java Video/Music Player

Hi people, can u give me advice, which java lib i should use for playing video(H.264)/audio(mp3, aac) streams/files. ...

WPF/C# - Decode/View IIS Smooth Streaming Content

Hi, I'm trying to write an application that is able to download the "chunks" sent by a IIS Smooth Streaming server and capture thumbnails of the video. I'm able to create the proper GET requests to download the chunks, but I'm having trouble finding a way to play or view the chunks I download. Does anybody know of a way to combine and ...

Video stream over ethernet

Hi, I have several video servers connected to each other over 1Giga bit ethernet cable. Video clips can be send from one server to another or live broadcasting. What best protocol should I use (UDP, TCP...) to achive real time transfering of HD video frames? ...

Which video streaming platform would you choose today?

We have decided that it is time to ditch the ad-hoc method of deploying video on our web properties and pick one or more Video Platforms to handle this task for us. High level requirements are: Needs to have an easy to mount and embed player. Needs to make uploading and converting existing video. Needs to have strong analytics, prefera...

Secure and cheap method for streaming Flash video

I'm working on a site which allows people to pay to stream videos online. I'm currently using JW Player to stream FLV/F4V files from Amazon S3, using a signature. This method is extremely unstable, and needless to say, useless. I've heard I can use Amazon CloudFront as a CDN for my videos. But that it won't make the files any more secur...

Anyone know of an open source RTP Server?

I specifically want to be able to stream Video. With the Server preferably implemented in Java, Python or Erlang? ...

GPU or hardware-based h.264 encoder with API?

We'd like to stream h.264 video to a browser based on frames generated on the server. The frames would be synthetic, i.e. not coming from another "real movie", mpeg, etc. We'd be generating them separately as part of a simulation, potentially using OpenGL/DirectX to render individual frames. In my naive approximation, we'd have a bitmap ...

FFPlay interface in C#??

I recently found a way to convert video's through the FFMpeg converter through command line, but ive recently been interested in making a video player! and i heard that VLC player and various other systems use FFPlay, and i dont know anything about it! so i have some main points of interest.. Questions: What exactly does the ffplay.ex...

Creating two <img> elements while using one MotionJPEG stream

Hi, I'm trying to make a page that would display several MotionJPEG image thumbnails. When a thumbnail is clicked, its contents are shown in a larger image element as well. The problem is that when I try to use the same MotionJPEG stream for both a thumbnail and the main view (setting the main image's src attribute), the data never arr...

Why is it so complex to convert a video file into FLV?

Hi, I'm reading more on the topic, includig Qs on SO and everyone seems to have used some bit of hackery so as to get a certain video-type encoded into FLV. Why is it such a big deal? Seems very simple to convert one format into another, but that doesnt appear to be the case... ...

Live streaming webcam on a web page (most efficient solution)

For a quick project I'll be working on, I have to install a multi-webcam setup that will be live streamed and accessible via a web browser. I'm looking into the quickest and most efficient solution, the less time and hassle it takes to implement, the better. That means buying hardware and/or software is not that much of an issue (as lon...

MP4 videos hosted on Internet cannot be dowloaded and played on Android OS When size bigger than 1,7MB

I have hosted some videos for Mobile-Learning on Internet (for direct or progressive download, not video streaming service) and I want them to be playable in most of the mobile devices, especially the ones with Android 1.6 and higher. The video container is MP4 with H264/AVC and AAC LC which is compatible with Symbian, Android, Windows ...

Access to webcam in browser?

For an internal project we would like to play with building a video conferencing system. We are able to decide the browser that the user has to use and can install plugins. The only requirement is that the browser and plugins must be free and work over Linux and Mac. (Don't care about Windows) What is the best way to do access the web...