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Tag: pseudo-streaming

  • 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 – 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…)