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Streaming Media East

• May 16 2013
• In Blogged , Distribution , Encoding , Professional , Streaming
• 1 Comment

For once you’ll be getting some updates more regular to the blog here on Geekteq the coming week. This is mainly due to the fact that I’m heading to New York City next week to visit Streaming Media East. I’ll be posting, hopefully, on a daily basis with some news and reviews on what I’ve heard during the day. My plan right now is to join these two pre-conference sessions – which I find most interesting of the four I can choose from: Encoding for Multiscreen Delivery Learn how to create a set of video files that will play on…

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Broadcast Live to Wowza from iOS and Android using myCast

• Oct 18 2012
• In Blogged , Encoding , Professional , Streaming
• 2 Comments

This will be a relatively short post even though it’s the first since forever – sorry about that, hectic professional life will do that to you. Something that I’ve been looking for, for ages it seems, is the possibility to broadcast from a mobile device to Wowza. Basically turning my iPhone or Android-phone into a camera and broadcast that to a Wowzaserver that I manage on my own. There are tons and tons of apps that do broadcast from iOS & Android devices to specific services, but there hasn’t been one that gives me the opportunity to use my setup…

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DRM is pretty much useless

• Feb 06 2012
• In Blogged , Distribution , Encoding , Professional , Streaming
• 0 Comments

I know, I’m kicking the hornets nest here. There’s no doubt about it. Before we continue I want to make it clear that I’m basically only talking about streaming in this post and it does not relate to downloadble content, this because I don’t work with that – yet. The base of my decision on that no DRM will ever prevent me from being able to copy content if I really want to copy it. Therefor it’s useless. Yes, I’m not a fan of DRM and mainly because it adds load to servers and makes it more or less impossible…

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VLC and Wowza sitting in a tree…

• Nov 22 2011
• In Blogged , Encoding , Handheld , Professional , Streaming
• 5 Comments

…. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.. :-) So as I’ve told you before, it’s been a busy few months and a lot has been going on. Currently working on a project for a client where we need to capture Multicasted IPTV Header, transcode it and then broadcast it to mobile terminals (iPhone’s, Android’s and older terminals as well – 3gpp). It’s been an interesting time trying to figure out how to get VLC to jump through hoops and make it work together with Wowza, without getting a lot of qualityloss on the way. During the testingphase of the project, about the same time as…

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Wowza Media Server 3.0 (preview)

• Aug 05 2011
• In Blogged , Distribution , Professional , Streaming
• 0 Comments

So. I’ve spent a few hours installing a Wowza Media Server 3.0 Preview Release. Wowza themselves calls it “Any Screen Done Right™” which sound very promising for me with the type of work I’ve done for the past few years - Haven’t tested it much yet but on the “paper” it’s look pretty darn good. The current project, I’m involved in, is to port (livetranscode) TV-channels to mobile devices (phones and pda’s and such). This is where one of the new features of the coming Wowza Media Server 3 is coming in. I’m talking about the Wowza Transcoder Addon. According to…

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Using JotForm to receive submissions

• Jun 22 2011
• In Blogged , Development , Professional , Web , Wordpress
• 0 Comments

Not so much a streamingpost, more on the subject of web development using services in the “cloud”. I have for the past four or five years had the privilege to work with a swedish radio organisation heading up their website in general and the yearly awards-nominations specifically and it’s been a hassle with a lot of manual labour, but fun also (we get to go to the awards). But, suffice to say, I have also had opportunities to improve the process yearly with new functions available on the internet in many forms. No pun intended but this year it was…

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Amazon Live Streaming and CloudFront

• Jun 08 2011
• In Blogged , Distribution , Professional , Streaming
• 10 Comments

The weekend that passed marked the première for me to use Amazon Web Services as a streaming solution for a live broadcast. No, don’t get me wrong, I’ve done it using EC2 before – several times – but in this case I had to use CloudFormation and because of that it was a première. The setup is pretty straightforward. So here we go using Amazons pre-configured CloudFormation template. During about 10-15 minutes it automates a setup of CloudFront distribution as well as the EC2 instance needed to serve it. Since this current client was estimating about 1000+ concurrent viewers and…

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