Is there anyway to make IIS smooth streaming work with html5 player. if not, what is recommended streaming server for that (I'm using ASP.Net for my web pages)? wowza, red5 or fms?
Diffrent browsers unfortunately support different video standards, but the industry seems to be moving towards MPEG-DASH as an open standard that most browsers will support.
Most streaming servers will either support this or have a roadmap story to support it.
You need a HTML5 Javascript video player generally to allow it playback on most browsers at this time - BitDash is a good example (https://www.dash-player.com).
Wow, a perfectly good IIS Smooth Streaming server is built into windows since windows 7 and server 2008.
IIS 7 and up will work just fine, windows 7, 8 and 10 will support up to 10 simultaneous users and the server platforms are limited by the amount of bandwidth you got.
A good example of this setup is http://www.tvbydemand.com
The player is free and works on all browsers for the pc, Iphones and all settop boxes like the Roku etc. Android does not support it except on the settop boxes.
We have been hearing about the standardization of mpeg-dash now for 10 years and have yet to see it. Google and Microsoft have been battling over different formats for the last 5 years. Mpeg-Dash is supported but so is HLS and HLS is much more popular. And IIS Smooth Streaming is still supported on the Azure platform by microsoft as well as windows 10 and server 2016.
Wowza is a great media server platform if you have a beefy server and alot of cash to pay for the software and then the yearly maintenance/upgrade fees.
Eitherway though, the only rendering software that supports todays codecs is soreson squeeze and that is pricey, but it will render IIS, HLS, mpeg-dash and all the container formats known and usefull to mankind. it is pricey but worth it.
anyway you can download a sample player by googleing "sample IIS smooth streaming player", it will end .xap
or you can download it from http://www.tvbydemand.com/finished.xap
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I'm looking for a Chat system with Video/Voice Chat for my Community Website.
I look in Google but all i can find is CRM and Business apps with high prices. in the past I use AVChat based on flash with a Red5 Server. but this is out of date. maybe my English is to bad to search for the right wording. but there are absolutely no app for simple community pages.
I have no problem with a payed software but I cannot pay 100USD for a limited connection service. All free solutions are not work for me.
Matrix Synapse run very well but the Clients are complex and i cannot find coders for fork brand.
Rocket.Chat very bad Video/voice (Jitsi)
any suggestions?
thank you
RTMP only servers like Red5 are no longer suitable since Flash was discontinued.
What you need is HTML5 WebRTC live streaming solutions, that work in latest browsers including mobile.
For HTML5 video calls you could take a look at HTML5 Video Call on GitHub after testing the live HTML5 video call demo.
Which web player I can use to get live stream from Windows Media Services? Is there are any crossplatform solutions (Windows, iPad/iPhone)? Should I make live convertation to flv or any other trick?
You could try using h264/aac video format for targeting iOS systems as explained in this article: Apple HTTP Live Streaming with IIS Media Services (this is kind of your only choice if you want to support iphone/ipad etc). This format will also be valid for Windows Phone 7 devices.
For the rest of Windows-based systems you could use Silverlight as streaming client, although you will need to use a different format based on Windows Media Video.
My partner and I have a webcam site that basically runs the old-school method....Every 0.5 seconds the javascript reloads the image in the browser from the webcam. However we are wanting to upgrade to a streaming media server to get higher quality video, and possibly audio. We aren't tied to any one specific file format or server type, as of right now we are leaning towards slicehost (as scalability is important), and installing darwin streaming server or wowza.
This is meant to be a live stream. Does anyone have any suggestions for hosts/server software?
Wowza is great and they offer an Amazon EC2 setup with micro pricing to make it affordable.
You can always go with Flash Media Server, but that is expensive.
Red5 is free and open source.
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Based on your comment, you can also use UStream. It is free and will hook into Flash Encoder, which is also free.
Do you absolutely have to stand up your own streaming server? Services like LiveStream can do what you're talking about for much cheaper than setting up your own hardware.
I'm interested if there any web server application that allows you to stream HD quality live chat without software application installed on streaming client PC. Flash Media Server allows HD streaming but it must be encoded prior to that which makes impossible to work with as any streaming client will need to install and handle their encoding software.
Thanks
I'm not sure what you mean about the installation of software. Naturally you will need to encode your video before it can be streamed, and the client needs some piece of software to play it. That can be software that is already present of course, like Flash or Silverlight.
You might want to look at IIS Smooth Streaming. It should be able to handle HD quality streaming very well (there's a demo on the site).
Are there any open source projects in any language and other recourses that I need to look at in order to implement flv to 3gp conversion? It's better to be streaming, I mean return first portion of 3gp before last portion of flv is downloaded.
Or are there any similar services already implemented - my goal is to have something like
http://converter.org?source=sourceUrl.flv&targetFormat=3gp that I can feed to 3gp player, in my case - on iPhone, and not wait until server downloads entire flv.
UPDATE: ffmpeg does really good job here, just
ffmpeg -i input.flv output.mp4
and that's it. But output file can be used only after conversion is done. Streaming is still an open question. There is ffserver that does some sort of streaming but I could not make it work.
I'm not sure if it is possible, but if there's one thing that should do it.
it's http://www.ffmpeg.org/ ..
it can convert anything to anything on an online platform. don't know if it supports streaming but definitely the best solution for online video conversion
Well this one might be a little late to the party but to stream video online you'll need a Media Streaming Server to deliver the video over a specific streaming protocol (i.e. HTTP,HTTPS,RTSP,RTMP). I've also been looking for such a "real-time" transcoding service but the closest thing I've found so far is the Video CDN's which are quite pricy, and also limited in formats/support. What would be really nice is for one of the media servers to add in a real-time transcoding feature. At the time of this writing no such service exists that I know of.
The top 10 most popular options for Media Streaming Servers are (IMHO):
VideoLAN - VLC Media Player (good for quick tests and proof-of-concept)
Kaltura - Open Source video platform
Real Media - Helix Universal Streaming Server (may be best bet for 3GP over RTSP)
Apple - Darwin Streaming Server / Quicktime (Live) Broadcaster (best for iPhone/iPad)
Red5 - Open Source Flash Streaming Server
Adobe - Flash Streaming Server
Wowza - Media Server
FluMotion - Open Source Multimedia Streaming
Microsoft - Windows Media Server (AVI, WMV, Silverlight & other formats)
FreeCast - An OGG Theoris (video) and OGG (audio) streaming/conversion platform
As you can see there are many options for streaming and you can start as simply as hosting the video on the same server and delivering to Desktop computer browsers via HTTP (the easiest way to get started with this is trial & error). Each offers different features in terms of protocols supported and transcoding, but none are truly real-time as you mention where you could feed in a source video and get an output video in the format of you choosing (i.e. 3GP). My personal choice would be to start with VLC for small-scale tests on a home network, since it is basically a swiss-army knife for desktop video that can also act as a server for any of the formats it can playback (though it may be more complicated to get this to stream to the public internet and even harder to go all the way to a single device on a private carrier network, some info is available from people who've tried):
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=45782
Some basic transcoding instructions to go to MP4 (required for iPhone/iPad/iPods):
http://wiki.videolan.org/MPEG-4
I also agree about FFMPEG being by far the best solution for video conversion, as it also supports 3GP and you can at least start playing around with conversion on your own test server, you might want to try the following PHP Classes project:
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/5977-PHP-Manipulate-video-files-using-the-ffmpeg-program.html
In my experience that was an excellent contribution to speed web interaction with FFMPEG's mostly command-line and sometimes clunky interface. Who knows, maybe you'll build the first real-time transcoding service, I'd be the first to signup as a customer and/or as a contributor to help you on that!