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If you're interested in how the sausage is made, I believe Netflix uses Microsoft's Smooth Streaming[1] to accomplish that (I know they use it for the in-browse
by Encosia 16y ago
If you're interested in how the sausage is made, I believe Netflix uses Microsoft's Smooth Streaming[1] to accomplish that (I know they use it for the in-browser client, but am not 100% positive about the native mobile apps). Smooth streaming is an under-appreciated tool, IMO. Given its power, you might reasonably assume it would be complex and expensive to set up, but it's a free extension to IIS if you have any recent edition of Windows Server and is amazingly simple to get up and running with your own video.
[1] http://www.iis.net/media http://www.iis.net/media
- henriklied 16y agoSmooth Streaming is certainly a great piece of technology, and thanks to the guys at Code Shop, it now works on several devices and using nginx, Apache and lighttpd: http://smoothstreaming.code-shop.com/trac http://smoothstreaming.code-shop.com/trac
- kowsik 15y agoNetflix streaming is like the bittorrent protocol (lots of participant hosts and lots of chunked fetches). See this: http://labs.mudynamics.com/2011/04/07/mommy-netflix-is-eating-my-firewall/ http://labs.mudynamics.com/2011/04/07/mommy-netflix-is-eatin...