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  • Loomiere 2.0.1-beta finally out!

    All right! I finally got around to releasing this code to the public. I won’t say much now (since I’m tired) but I will say that this software has been functioning in production environment for over 1 year and a half serving all the video content available on the romanian website http://peteava.ro (about 800 TB of data each month out of 14 servers).

    Some (old) statistics showing it’s power can be found here.

    Source code: https://github.com/valeriupalos/loomiere.

    Warning:
    Any software downloaded from this website is *never* to be associated in any form with pornographic or erotic content! I.E. “Loomiere” must *never* be used to stream pornographic or erotic videos! There are plenty alternatives if you can’t help it.

  • Loomiere/Stream: Revived!

    UPDATE: /1165/loomiere-2-0-1-beta-finally-out/

    OK folks, things have settled down and we are good to go. After some considerations the legal concerns for Loomiere/Stream are now cleared and gone. The source is now released and will be available indefinitely. Again, this streamer (minimally customized) has already been serving all the video content at http://peteava.ro for 3 full months (for those seeking a demo).

    Source code: loomiere-0.2.1-tar.gz

    Warning:
    Any software downloaded from this website is *never* to be associated in any form with pornographic or erotic content! I.E. “Loomiere/Stream” must *never* be used to stream pornographic or erotic videos! There are plenty alternatives if you can’t help it.

    Just a teaser:
    Fighting the video-streaming problem has taught me very many things which, in turn, led me to realize that I might be able to use a substantially different streaming approach to achieve a massive amount of optimization in this field. So quite soon, I think I’ll have ready a brand new (and far more powerful) streamer that aims at making it possible for a single server to serve many thousands (I am still testing this) of streams simultaneously using commodity hardware. I am not yet settled on whether this project will be commercial, open-sourced or both but I hope to clear this aspect soon as well. Real-world streaming (i.e. before and after) statistics will be made available on release.

    Stay tuned! 🙂

  • Loomiere/Stream – A high performance streaming server

    UPDATE: http://vpalos.com/1165/loomiere-2-0-1-beta-finally-out/

    The Loomiere (0.2.1) code is now freely available under GPLv3.
    Please see this post for an update.

    Are you killing psstream?

    Well, yes! I am sure that many of you already know about psstream (the PHP streaming extension I made a while back). Well, many things happened since then and I came to realize I could do better; a whole lot better actually. As of now the ‘psstream’ project is officially no longer developed (see below). It will remain on the website for some time to come for archiving purposes but that is it.

    But wait, why did you do it?

    For some time now I have be looking into improving the streaming mechanism for a large video-sharing project run by my company. PSStream was a first effort, and it did the job but soon ran into problems. None of our servers was able to properly stream more than 150 clients simultaneously and the resources were grossly wasted, hence, Loomiere/Stream. (more…)