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Tag: 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 2.0 teaser

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

    This article is a quick peek into how Loomiere 2.0 is (currently) serving close to 3k active streams from a single server in production which is restricted to 1.6 Gbps of bandwidth (we are currently negotiating with our ISP to raise this limitation). All these statistics represent a single machine, in real time, over a period of 12 hours, equipped as follows:

    • 2 x Xeon Dual Core (with HyperThreading) at 3.2GHz
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 15 x 1TB HDD (7200rpm)
    • 4 x 1GB NIC’s
    • This system runs on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.

    OK so here are the graphs:

    The graphs may not yet be as stable as I would wish at the moment since I am still testing this setup as well as Loomiere itself, but I think soon I will have a more stable configuration and also some time to comment on these graphs.

    Enjoy! 🙂

  • 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! 🙂