video-streaming

How does YouTube prevent video content from being saved/redistributed?

Sure, you can embed a YouTube video on any site, but the content ultimately must come from their server. What technology(ies) do they have that prevents us from saving/redistributing content? From a protocol standpoint, you would think that anything that comes over the wire could be saved. I hope I am not the only guy on Earth who doe...

Where should I host my Silverlight videos?

I am writing a Silverlight application which displays large applications. It uses MediaElement and the user can scroll to any particular point in the video. However, I don't want to have to host these large videos myself. What is the easiest/best option for hosting? (A sort of youtube for silverlight if you want) ...

How can pause and play video ?

Hi Actually i am working on IPTV what i want is if i pause any video i must be able to capture the moment at which it is which may be in main TV page and now if click another button it must open a small iframe which contain the same video but resumes from the same instance where it is turned to small iframe. Please suggest some solutio...

HTTP Live Streaming using Apple mediastreamsegmenter

Hello All I would like to implement HTTP live streaming for iPhone/iPad. I am following the apple standards and tools for same. As of now my video source is one giving me live video from rtsp://123.123.123.123:554/mpeg4 (sample IP). but as HTTP live streaming and mediastreamsegmenter required to pass source over UDP network so i have t...

How does a YouTube movie downloader work? - YouTube

Hi folks, I'm wordering how apps such as Video DownloadHelper work. Any ideas? ...

Is it possible to stream during a conversion? - FFMPEG

Hi folks, I'm wondering if it is possible to stream video while the video is being generated through conversion. Any ideas? ...

Video stretched on iphone. How to loop movie.

Hi, I have over 1000 flv clips for education market on server side. Each clips plays for less than 3-4sec. 192x144 frame size. They play on infinite loop. Users access clips via web only - after logging into their account. Our clients now wish to access them via iphone and similar. I will convert to mp4 for this to occur. Issue ...

Video streaming using RTSP : Android

Video streaming using RTSP I 'm trying to install a Wowza server on my linux machine to enable the RTSP streaming for my android application. On android client side what sort of changes do I need to make in my application. I 'm using Videoview to simply play a video file stored locally. Now I want to get the video content get streamed t...

Where can I find a collection of sample videos that use various container formats / codecs / bitrates / resolutions to use as test data?

I'd like to get hold of a wide range of videos to use as test data. I'd ideally need Flash, Quicktime and Windows Media containers with video content at various bitrates and resolutions. Before I set out gathering or creating such a collection myself, does anyone know if a similar repository of sample video data already exists? Perhaps ...

Packet Loss in Darwin Streaming Server

Hi. I am using Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) to generate rtp streams. The DSS interface configured on the server, however shows some Packet Loss which, to a certain extent, is also visible on the client side while playing the video stream. I would like to know whether this loss signifies the packets lost while traveling over the netwo...

Does flash media server 3.5 do any server side video conversion?

I'm building an web app where users can upload video files, formats to be determined, to a flash media server and I'd like to know if flash media server can convert any types of video formats to flv files suitable for streaming back to other users? If anyone has a link to reference materials on the subject it'd be much appreciated. Tha...

problems streaming/playing video in iPhone SDK 4

i recently tried to add video streaming to an app using the iPhone SDK4.0. i had done this with no problems with previous versions of the SDK. so i copied the code over to the new project and ran it. well guess what. the video didn't play. i downloaded Apple's example code that shows how to play video. i compiled and ran it with SDK 4 an...

iPhone HTTP Streaming .m3u8 and .ts files - how to create using ffmpeg

I'm trying to get apple-validated http media streams using ffmpeg and am getting errors. Here are some error examples: WARNING: Playlist Content-Type is 'application/x-mpegurl', but should be one of 'application/vnd.apple.mpegurl', 'audio/x-mpegurl' or 'audio/mpegurl'. WARNING: 258 samples (88.966 %) do not have timestamps in track 256...

How to calculate Packet loss, Jitter and QoS parameters of video over an IP connection?

I came across a mobile application which performs voice and video quality test to give a measure of the quality of voice/video experience over an IP connection. The test calculates the values of Jitter, Packet loss etc. for the remote stream. I am curious to know how this is being done? What would it take to write such an Mobile applica...

How to transmit live video from within a Java application?

I'm trying to find ways to stream a live video generated in a Java application. The application needs to take screenshots of itself and encode these into a video stream and publish the stream. So far I have been using Xuggler (a Java library on top of FFMPEG) to encode the screenshots into a video file. This works great. Xuggler clai...

Android RTSP streaming failing

Hi I 've Set up wowza streaming server in my ubuntu box for RTSP streaming video files. The video gets stream perfectly when I 've Totem video player at client side. The same url or video is failing to work on android device and the application that tries to access that rtsp url breaks with Mediaplayer error (1,-1). ...

How to control external monitor output using cocoa?

Hi all, I am making a sample application in cocoa in which I have to control video output being send to external monitor connected to a macbook using Mini Display Port/ Mini DVI. Can anyone suggest me how can I implement it in cocoa? Thanks in advance for any link, suggestion. Miraaj ...

How do I find a keyframe in a transport stream?

I wrote a program that will parse a transport stream. But I need to know if a transport stream packet contains an i-frame. What is the best way to do this? I heard somewhere that I need to look at a couple of bits after the picture start code but I don't know where to find this in the TS packet. ...

How to prevent unauthorized access to media streams

I have a client who is using Siverlight media streaming and wants to start charging for access to certain videos (pay-per-view). Many of those videos with be live-streamed. I am looking for a solution to restrict the media streams to only the clients who have paid. As it stands I think each video resource is located at fixed URL - if y...

When I play streaming media with my iPad,the screen is black but it sounds normal

I find this in device's console: Tue Jul 13 13:21:28 sumomo-bunketsumigikakkos-iPad com.apple.mediaserverd[83] : vxdDec - Frame# 1395, DecodeFrame failed with error: 305 Why did this happen? ...