XtreemFS. It seems to have all the neccessary things for developing you own CDN at the OS level with minimum effort. Similar to Coda, but it gives you on-demand file replication (read-only, of course) on WAN environments, POSIX semantics (so you don’t need to modify you application) , stripping and parallel I/O (equals to high [...]
Archive for the 'Media' Category
Video codecs
02Mar10An interesting article on video codecs licensing and how we are all being out of the law. The conclusion is very simple: Theora is a free standard we can all use for commercial purposes, we know, but just because it is not widely used!. Otherwise, legions of unknown patent holders would sue you right when [...]
Patience
11Dec09From newteevee:
More than 81 percent of all online video viewers click away if they encounter a clip rebuffering, according to a new study by Tubemogul. The Emeryville-based video distribution and analytics startup took a close look at 192 million video streams over the course of 14 days to figure out how much rebuffers matter. The result: [...]
Flash
06Jan09From NewTeeVee:
Adobe and Broadcom Corporation announced today that Flash will be integrated into Broadcom’s latest digital television and set-top box system-on-a-chip platforms. The partnership will make it easier to watch web video on your TV, and comes one day after Adobe announced a similar chip partnership with Intel.
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Flash is the dominant video platform on the [...]
iPlayer drops P2P
26Dec08From the BBC Internel Blog:
[...] our new BBC iPlayer Desktop no longer uses P2P. Downloads now come directly from our servers, as direct HTTP downloads. Why the move away from P2P? Three reasons:
1. When the BBC chose P2P for downloads over two years ago, bandwidth was really expensive, and so P2P was seen as the [...]
