MediaTomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface, it allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.
MediaTomb implements the UPnP MediaServer V 1.0 specification that can be found on http://www.upnp.org/. The current implementation focuses on parts that are required by the specification, however we look into extending the functionality to cover the optional parts of the spec as well.
Category Archives: Servers
VideoLAN – The cross-platform streaming solution
VideoLAN – The cross-platform streaming solution.
Overview of the VideoLAN streaming solution
The VideoLAN streaming solution includes two programs:
- VLC media player which can be used as a server and as a client to stream and receive network streams. VLC is able to stream all that it can read.
- VLS (VideoLAN Server), which can stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast. Most of the VLS functionality can now be found VLC. Usage of VLC instead of VLS is advised.
Digital (dis)content: HOWTO: setting up a VOD server with VLC
Digital (dis)content: HOWTO: setting up a VOD server with VLC.
This sounds too complicated. The stream needs to be defined inside the app by loading a config file. It might be useful for certain applications however.
SPINE
SPINE is a webbased Content Management System, implemented in Perl and released under the GPL (GNU Public License). It requires a Unix flavoured webserver, a database (postgresql or mysql), a default Apache installation and mod_perl. It features mixed static/dynamic content, separated template and content administration, granular privileges, userfriendly URLs, plugins, … Check the features page.
OpenStack spun out from Rackspace control
Hosting provider Rackspace, which currently owns the OpenStack trademark and copyrights, plans to transfer ownership of these resources to the not-for-profit foundation once it is operational.
Much like how the Linux Foundation provides a supporting structure for the largely independent development of the Linux kernel, so too will the OpenStack Foundation provide the support structure for the third-party development of OpenStack, the founders said.
Furnace — Haivision
End-to-End IP Video. The Furnace™ IP video system provides a complete infrastructure for delivering secure video to every desktop and display within an organization. With the Furnace you can record any source, apply metadata, and deliver live or recorded content, or video on demand. The Furnace allows administrators granular control over the media within a facility and a harmonized experience for all users.
via Furnace — Haivision.
Install GD Library For PHP5 On CentOS
Install GD Library For PHP5 On CentOS ~ Mattias Geniar.
This needs to be installed for WordPress and is not necessarily installed by default. Gallery might need it as well but since no images have been added since brandylion.com went into its own vm, I haven’t noticed any problems.
$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud
The cluster, announced publicly this week, was created for an unnamed “Top 5 Pharma” customer, and ran for about seven hours at the end of July at a peak cost of $1,279 per hour, including the fees to Amazon and Cycle Computing. The details are impressive: 3,809 compute instances, each with eight cores and 7GB of RAM, for a total of 30,472 cores, 26.7TB of RAM and 2PB (petabytes) of disk space. Security was ensured with HTTPS, SSH and 256-bit AES encryption, and the cluster ran across data centers in three Amazon regions in the United States and Europe. The cluster was dubbed “Nekomata.”
via $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud.
Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain
Hewlett-Packard, Dell and companies that sell the computers off the shelf are losing sales in a key market because Facebook and larger rival Google Inc. (GOOG) are leading a switch among Internet companies to do-it-yourself servers. These customized machines now account for 20 percent of the U.S. market for servers, which generated $31.9 billion globally in last year, said Jeffrey Hewitt, an analyst at Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc.
via Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain: Tech – Bloomberg.
ClusterLabs
Pacemaker keeps your applications running when they or the machines they’re running on fail. However it can’t do this without connectivity to the other machines in the cluster – a significant problem in its own right.
Rather than re-implement the wheel, Pacemaker supports existing implimentations such as Heartbeat. Heartbeat provides:
- a mechansigm to reliably send messages between nodes,
- notifications when machines appear and disappear
- a list of machines that are up that is consistent throughout the cluster
Heartbeat was also the first stack supported by the Pacemaker codebase.
via FAQ – ClusterLabs.