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You mean the apple protocol? Not sure, but I looked at that when I designed it. What I did was just the most intuitive

I'm glad you liked it, it was a lot of fun. I also implemented on the fly transcoding, but that's probably for a different article. For the tech, well really at that place we used …

EU traffic in our case about ~1.2x the US traffic.

Unfortunately that's the case. I heard really good things about wowza these days. Not open source but a lot of things are open and flexible. Also back then red5 was also an ok alte…

No, not IP multicast. Imagine it as a web server that serves FLV files which always start at the current stream position. This is what it did. Actually bringing up the proxy issue …

Original writer here. Actually this was a website which streamed online broadcasts live from people, like ustream does but with adult content. Some broadcasts could be hours long.

Author of the original post here. >It's not clear what the article means by "repackaging" a stream or "pointers" to tags (especially in the diagram that shows tag pointers being tr…