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Jan 10

Ubuntu Server optimization

The following guide can help you optimize your Ubuntu server in order to be able to support a high number of requests, without reaching any of the defaults limits. It is not meant for security, only performance. After configurations are done, please reboot your server. Tune global limits add to /etc/sysctl.d/999-perf.conf fs.file-max=1048576 fs.inotify.max_user_instances=1048576 fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1048576 fs.nr_open=1048576 net.core.default_qdisc=fq net.core.netdev_max_backlog=1048576 net.core.rmem_max=16777216 net.core.somaxconn=65535 net.core.wmem_max=16777216 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range=1024 65535 net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max=1048576 net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=5 net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans=1048576 net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=20480 net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=400000 net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=4096…

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Jan 10

Setting up HLS live streaming server using NGINX

This guide will explain how to setup your own streaming server on ubuntu. 1. Compile nginx with rtmp module Firstly, we’ll need to compile nginx with the nginx-rtmp-module. We recommend using this forked module. It’s being actively worked on and contains more fixes and improvements over the original one Clone nginx-rtmp-module git clone https://github.com/sergey-dryabzhinsky/nginx-rtmp-module.git Install nginx…

Ffmpeg

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Ffmpeg

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Jan 10

Creating A Production Ready Multi Bitrate HLS VOD stream

HLS is one of the most prominent video streaming formats on desktop and mobile browsers. Since end users have different screen sizes and different network performance, we want to create multiple renditions of the video with different resolutions and bitrates that can be switched seamlessly, this concept is called MBR…

Hls

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Creating A Production Ready Multi Bitrate HLS VOD stream

Hls

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Jan 1

Peer5 Joins Microsoft

We are thrilled to announce that Peer5 has been acquired by Microsoft. It has been quite a journey and I’m extremely proud of our team and what we’ve accomplished. Guy, Shachar and I started the company in 2012 with a vision to decentralize the web and video streaming with WebRTC…

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Jan 1

Prflxion — a WebRTC ip leak

Peer5’s engineering team has identified a security vulnerability we’ve labeled Prflxion, a WebRTC security vulnerability that leaks a user’s local IP address when using Chrome or Edge. This data could be used as a valuable identifier for accurately fingerprinting and targeting users behind network address translation (NAT) by third parties…

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Jan 1

Practical Approaches for Securing Your Video Streams

Content protection has been a major issue since the beginning of the digital era and its importance is only growing. Today, services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Spotify, Apple Music etc base their entire business model on the delivery of digital media to end users. …

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Practical Approaches for Securing Your Video Streams

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Jan 1

How to Configure Your VPN to Ensure Successful Corporate Video Events

VPNs are nothing new, but they’re making a huge comeback in these wacky days of COVID-19. …

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How to Configure Your VPN to Ensure Successful Corporate Video Events

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Jan 1

HTTP Live Streaming In Javascript

Performance section update — Nov 19, 2015 A flashocalypse is approaching -no-one-is-using-.html) — paraphrasing John Luther, JW Player TL;DR — We can finally play HLS using only javascript. It works faster than Flash, unlocking the potential to stream live in 4k and 60fps. What is HLS? HLS, which stands for HTTP Live Streaming…

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