This article will walk you through the process of downloading, installing and configuring all the software required to start broadcasting to a Flash Push Live Stream with Mydeo. If you don’t have a trial account already, open a 15-day free trial account now by heading to www.mydeo.com. Once you’ve opened your account, you can trial [...]
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Getting started with Live Flash Streaming
Posted in Articles, Technical, tagged Flash, FMLE, Live on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Comparing Mydeo to Amazon S3
Posted in Articles, Technical, tagged cdn, mydeo, streaming, video streaming on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We often get asked how Mydeo differs from Amazon S3 – so here’s a quick summary. Amazon S3 is a storage system, whereas Mydeo provides Content Delivery via a Content Delivery Network (CDN). The CDN Mydeo use exclusively is Limelight Networks, one of the leading global CDNs optimised for rich media delivery. The focus of [...]
So why not YouTube?
Posted in Articles, tagged Business, YouTube on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a common question asked by many customers who are trying to establish the value in using a CDN service. YouTube is often the first place many think to go for uploading and broadcasting their personal videos. When you take YouTube’s service into consideration it is undeniably good. So if its good at distributing video, [...]
HTML5 Video – What you need to know
Posted in Articles, tagged HTML5, video on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What is HTML 5 Video? First, lets talk about what HTML 5 is. HTML 5 is the successor to HTML, the standard formatting language used to publish all web sites, and interpreted by all web browsers to display them. HTML 5 is a necessary replacement for traditional HTML because this new standard includes native support [...]
What is Smooth Streaming?
Posted in Articles, tagged HTTP, HTTP streaming, smooth streaming, video streaming on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Smooth Streaming is a relatively new way to stream your videos at an adaptive rate giving your viewers the best possible viewing experience. Smooth streaming can determine the bandwidth available and select the appropriate bit-rate to display your video at. This means that you will never have to cater for the lowest common denominator to [...]
Three Simple Steps To a Lighting Quick Web Site
Posted in Announcements, Articles on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sooner or later, someone will notice how slow your web site is and you don’t want that to be a customer. Slow web sites lose you customers Statistics show that you’ll lose your customers if your web site takes longer than 5 seconds to load. What you might not have realised, though, is that it’s [...]
Embedding live streams with Flowplayer
Posted in Articles, Technical, tagged live streaming, m3, rtmp, video streaming on March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Embedding live streams with Flowplayer Previously, we discussed embedding flash videos into a webpage for on-demand content here – http://blog.mydeo.com/2009/04/24/flowplayer-quick-start-guide/. While this article covers both RTMP streaming and HTTP delivery methods it does not include instruction for how to get live flash streams to work with flowplayer. The basics for this remain the same: Download [...]
Content caching on the Mydeo platform
Posted in Articles, Technical, tagged caching, cdn on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The main benefit of using a CDN such as Limelight Networks (via mydeo.com) is that your content is accessible much faster than if it was self-hosted. This is because, in addition to having your content stored globally on a network of high-speed servers interconnected by high-bandwidth connections (a “private internet”), it is also cached. Why [...]
m3 uploading options
Posted in Announcements, Articles, tagged desktop connector, m3, m3api, uploading on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mydeo m3 uploading options and explanations Below is a list of the various different options we have for uploading media on to the CDN and a brief explanation of each. Web upload Most users will be able to use the web upload to get content on to the CDN. This is the simplest way to [...]
Using a CDN to optimize your websites performance
Posted in Articles, tagged cdn, limelight, LLNW, m3, streaming on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the major factors that affect the performance of your website delivery is the distance between the end user and your web server. With this in mind it makes sense to try and get your content as close to your users as possible. A content delivery network (CDN) is a great way to do [...]