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…

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…

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…

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…

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. The more securely these services…

VPNs are nothing new, but they’re making a huge comeback in these wacky days of COVID-19. This gives us an opportunity to talk a little bit about how a company’s virtual private network (VPN) might negatively impact their ability to stream video, and, in the process, recommend a couple of…

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…