toptalgergely

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   by toptalgergely 13y ago

   You mean the apple protocol? Not sure, but I looked at that when I designed it. What I did was just the most intuitive
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   by toptalgergely 13y ago

   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 pretty much what everyone else did. Not a lot of big secrets
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   by toptalgergely 13y ago

   EU traffic in our case about ~1.2x the US traffic.
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   by toptalgergely 13y ago

   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 alternative, not sure if that's still the case.
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   by toptalgergely 13y ago

   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 is interesting. I'm not sure if it does. Essentially forbidd
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   by toptalgergely 13y ago

   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.
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   by toptalgergely 13y ago

   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 transported between users). By repackaging I meant extrac