Questions tagged [video]
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Good PC-based video conference control tools? [closed]
I'm looking to improve the user experience in our video conference rooms, by simplifying the things users do all the time (setting up a call, muting and unmuting, panning and zooming between a few ...
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windows server 2012 resolution woes with vga
I have two windows vms, windows server 2012 and windows server 2008. Both use kvm and libvirt. I recently decided I wanted to increase my screen resolution options, which required changing from the ...
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VNC on Vista
I'm using UltraVNC on my Vista machine, and it's giving me very poor performance, even over a 300 mbs network. It seems to be doing screen polling.
I looked, and it doesn't look like the video hook ...
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Hardware needed for receiving and recording videocalls in Asterisk
I'm planning an Asterisk configuration that should record videocalls and then feed it to an application.
From what I've researched, it seems like app_h234m is the way to go. But it's not clear to me ...
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What is a good solution for an intranet video portal (YouTube-like) site?
I would like an easy-to-setup site to handle videos to be viewed internally by my company. YouTube is essentially the perfect solution except for its being public. I'm looking for a place where a ...
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Save the stream to mp4 files
How can I keep the flow (protocol rtsp, codec h264) in file (container mp4)? That is, on input an endless stream (with CCTV camera), and the output files in mp4 format size of 5-10 minutes of ...
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Change Windows screen resolution remotely without reboot?
We had a bunch of Windows 2008 servers configured by a tech, then racked with and hooked up to an IP KVM. Unforunately, the monitor used during configuration was a widescreen LCD, and now Windows is ...
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How to encode video to use HTML 5 video tag? [closed]
I'm trying to use <video> tag feature. I've encoded my file with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i 1.vob -f ogg -vcodec libtheora -b 800k -g 300 -acodec libvorbis -ab 128k out.ogv
I've placed this text in ...
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How do I set up a basic IPv6 video stream using VLC
I'm teaching a class IPv6 and would like to create a lab for them to see the true benefit of ipv6 multicasting in action.
I created a multicast address for myself
ff15::1 (where ff is multicast, 1 ...
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Windows System Administration - videos or pod casts [closed]
I am looking for podcast or videos on Windows System Administration
Ideally they should cover the basics & the more advanced topics
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Does the HP DL20 gen10 support video redirection at all times with an advanced iLO license
We recently bought an HP DL20 gen10 through a reseller and it is missing the hardware iLO NIC. The HP quicksheet now shows iLO as an optional component despite us having bought the advanced iLO ...
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Tools for load-testing a videoserver
I'm looking for a tool capable of setting up multiple RTSP streaming sessions and keeping them alive for a configurable amount of time. Ideally this should not be videoserver specific and as ...
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5-10tb of data transfer required, on the cheap [closed]
I need to support about 5-10 tb/month of data transfer for downloadable screencasts.
Since this a a free service, would you recommend me just using those 'unlimited bandwidth' 10/month hosters for ...
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Remote Controlled IP Based Webcam
This may be a tumbleweed, but does anyone know of a webcam that can be remotely controlled via IP? (understanding you'll have to have static IPs, NATing, open ports in firewalls, yada yada yada)
For ...
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Video streaming over multi display units [closed]
We have to share video across around 4/8 terminals at a public facility where we need to display live video from within the facility, as well as display messages(advertisements), and also play videos(...
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Video Surveillance Server Software
My company has about 25 cameras around our property and we need a server to store any motion on each of the cameras. We are currently using a software called "Digital Video Witness" which is fairly ...
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Server bandwidth for video streaming website
I need to put on a website videos that can ba shown using a common swf player (like flowplayer).
Videos are about 3/4 minutes each (400 MB) in MPEG4/H264 compression.
I was thinking to buy a normal ...
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Nginx : Mp4 videos not seeking and starting immediately
I learned how to compile nginx with mp4 module. I also added proper directive in my website conf.
I am trying to play a mp4 using JW player and flow player. But the video doesn't buffer and play like ...
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nginx reverse proxy: buffer responses?
I'm working on a configuration for a reverse proxy that's only purpose is to load balance requests between two upstream servers, primarily for redundancy in case one goes down.
I'm curious about the ...
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can't access my supermicro IPMI remote console
This is my first post, this site it's great, and i hope you can help me with my problem.
I have a supermicro MB X8STI-F and I can access the remote interface browse the server status and everything, ...
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why is partial content not being served in nginx (mp4)?
i am running nginx v.1.9.3 here to serve my site and also video files for streaming. i am seeing that the mp4 files are always served with a code of 200 and that partial content requests are ignored. ...
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CloudFront or other CDN with RTSP streaming?
So I've been bouncing between CDN's trying to optimize our serving solution. We're serving short video clips into our code that display either an html5 video element (MP4 or OGG) or a flash swf (FLV) ...
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Live streaming external FLV files
I want to broadcast live video from a playlist created by me, but the actual video files (.flv's) are stored in some external file hosting which I can't admin, but it's currently allowing the use of ...
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VLC or ffserver for http streaming
I don't like asking "OR" questions, but I can't find any comparison on the Internet. I need live http streaming using h264 in flv container.
I managed to achieve this with VLC, but with big latency. ...
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DVR monitoring through Terminal Server
I'm trying to view my CCTV cameras through a terminal server session using windows server 2008 R2 inside my network. I'm using the Graphical Interface Software of the DVR. The problem is that when I ...
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Measuring Site to Site Latency for Video Conferencing
We are currently looking at doing some international video conferencing, and before we go ahead and buy a system we need to measure Site to Site Latency & bandwidth objectively.
I can't see any ...
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Telepresence on the cheap [closed]
We have two support centers 20 miles apart. We'd like a telepresence type setup, but we have a limited budget at the moment. We do have spare computers, two large LCDs screens, and a 10Gb backbone. ...
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One terabyte of video served per hour - network limits?
Suppose in a peak hour there are 100,000 users that want to watch a video and that on average they consume 10 megabytes per video view. Might be more, might be less. For simplicity, let's say 1 ...
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Progressive video download in a classroom environment - how to determine bandwidth needed
Background:
We need to deliver a video heavy e-learning course to a classroom of ~15 users.
This video will be MP4 delivered via HTML5 video so progressive download.
As from what I can gather you can'...
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Suggest some price oriented setups for a large video hosting site
Im looking to build a video hosting service from scratch. I have access to several traffic channels, so there will be immediate usage of such service. I wanted to see what sort of options there are ...
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HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Apple has included HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming in the iPhone OS 3.0, in particular Safari handles this automatically.
I'd like to play with this in a low cost manner, but I expect it'll require a ...
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What technologies allow bidirectional streaming of video? [closed]
Wikipedia says that Flash allows "bidirectional streaming of audio and video". Is it possible to do that with other technologies (for example with JavaScript)?
In other words, I want to transfer ...
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ffmpeg on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) Server
I'm trying to get ffmpeg running on my server so I can use the PHP Video Toolkit successfully. I'm currently setting up my testing platform, which is a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Server.
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How to config NGINX for FLV streaming with proxy_cache?
I have a media storage server with over 20GB of free RAM. Server stores a FLV files. I'm using NGINX with HttpFlvStreamModule for streaming. It works like a harm.
I thought to take advantage of free ...
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Video-on-demand/surveillance server setup
I'm planning to set up a service that would allow people to connect their ip-cameras to and watch video embedded into a website. Scheduled saving and replaying would also be available. What hardware ...
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Mimic Picture in Picture functionality
We are currently setting up a conference/meeting/voting system. There is a PC (Call it CompA) whose secondary display is the public display which shows information,voting results, etc.
There is ...
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Most bandwidth efficient setup for video sharing [closed]
I built a video sharing platform for a popular french podcast I contribute to.
Initially I used S3 and linked directly to it, bad idea.
Then I used a pull CDN to better optimize my bandwidth, but s3 ...
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Visualizing IO other then seekwatcher
Is there any other programs that can generate visuals/graphs/diagrams (movie and pictures) to visualize IO across a full device other then seekwatcher?
NOTE: seekwatcher generates visuals(pic/movie) ...
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RTP Streaming with VLC and remote control
I'd like to set up a remotely controlled (through SSH) streaming server with VideoLAN VLC.
I managed start the RTP stream through SSH with the command:
cvlc v4l2:///dev/video0 --sout #transcode{...
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Codec Pack that can easily be deployed via group policy
We have a teacher that has a project for doing some basic film editing with windows movie maker. We loaded the avi file onto the computer and Windows is trying to install a codec but can't. I assume I ...
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Corporate IM with video that actually works, suggestions? [closed]
Does anyone here have a suggestion for a cross-platform IM solution which will work with VoIP/video on both Windows (XP and 7) and Mac OS X from 10.4 and upwards?
Right now, we're in a kind of mixed ...
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Is there a video capture device for IRIX & Sparc video? [closed]
I have a couple of old non-intel machines for porting stuff, and they have a special monitor cable.
I would like to be able to throw away these old CRTs and instead be able to see their video by ...
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Video call software [closed]
In our company we have about 40 offices distributed all over the country. Every time the Human resources department want to do a training session the people have to go to the central offices for the ...
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What is wrong with that Dell PowerEdge?
Here is the photo of BIOS splash screen when powered on:
Did you ever see anything like this?
It continues printing garbage instead of usual messages while booting but it does not boot any medium ...
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RTSP to RTMP streaming
I am trying to set up a server for converting a video stream, live. The input stream is in RTSP format, and the output should be RTMP (to use in a Flash application).
I've had a look at crtmp, which ...
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Capture CCTV Camera over TV Tuner PCI Card
Is it possible in Linux to use a TV Tuner PCI card to capture (i.e. stream in VLC player) PAL video coming out of a CCTV camera?
Thanks!
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How to simulate high video payload to benchmark an SSD?
I'm trying to evaluate some SSDs for a video on-demand use-case. We've done some benchmarking tests on them, but we'd like to get an idea of the number of video streams that they can support with a ...
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video streaming infrastructure advice
We would like to set-up a live video-chat web site and are looking for basic recomendations for software and hardware set-up. Here are the particulars on the site:
Most streams will be broadcast ...
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How to troubleshoot a black screen (no video) on boot?
On a related question to this one, now I have a file server whose power supply and fans spin up, but gets no video and no beep codes.
I have tried two different video cards in the system, and neither ...
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vfw.h no longer present on RHEL 4.8? [closed]
I maintain an application which relies on vfw. Unfortunately, I am not able to remove this deprecated video encoding mechanism at this time. My application compiles fine on Windows, but on RHEL 4.8 it ...
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