Our editorial team and content monitors almost immediately noticed a flood of livid Twitter messages about the ban and attempted to restore the broadcast. Unfortunately, we were not able to lift the ban before the broadcast ended. We had many unhappy viewers as a result, and for that I am truly sorry.
via Hugo Awards: An apology and explanation | The Ustream Blog.
This is the story of Cablevision, the companies that followed in its wake, and how we got to the strange place where wasting resources on thousands of tiny antennas made you legal—but where using one antenna broke the law.
via Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane | Ars Technica.
Download videos from various Flash-based video hosting sites, without having to use the Flash player. Handy for saving videos for watching offline, and means you don’t have to keep upgrading Flash for sites that insist on a newer version of the player.
via get-flash-videos – A command line program to download flash videos – Google Project Hosting.
Update 10/14/2012: Try this site. The relatively newer github site here. I think I had problems with the code.google.com version which didn’t seem up to date.
Bufferbloat, as you’ll recall from my 2011 predictions column, is the result of our misguided attempt to protect streaming applications (now 80 percent of Internet packets) by putting large memory buffers in modems, routers, network cards, and applications. These cascading buffers interfere with each other and with the flow control built into TCP from the very beginning, ultimately breaking that flow control, making things far worse than they’d be if all those buffers simply didn’t exist.
Bufferbloat was named by Jim Gettys of Bell Labs, who has become our chief defender against the scourge, attempting to coordinate what’s become a global response to the problem.
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What AQM does is monitor the buffer, and signal the end points to slow down any time the buffer starts to fill, either due to that one transfer or competing transfers, by dropping or marking packets. So the buffer is kept (almost) empty, except when it is handling a burst of traffic. So the steady state latency of the buffer, rather than being the size of the buffer, is set by the size of the bursts in traffic. The size of the buffer becomes almost irrelevant.
The Real-Time Streaming Protocol allows to control multimedia streams delivered, for example, via RTP. Control includes absolute positioning within the media stream, recording and possibly device control.
Welcome to Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version of Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server technology that allows you to send streaming media to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. Based on the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server, Darwin Streaming Server provides a high level of customizability and runs on a variety of platforms allowing you to manipulate the code to fit your needs.
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.