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 [...]
Posted in Technical, tagged Flash, live streaming, video streaming on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Live streaming: Push vs. Pull When encoding video or audio, you have two options. You can either ‘push’ the stream or ‘pull’ the stream. Each method has advantages and disadvantages which we will discuss here and help you to choose the method best for your circumstances. Pushing a stream: With a push stream, the local machine [...]
FLV Seek
Posted in Technical on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Many of our customers at Mydeo have asked us about the concepts of FLV Seek. It is useful to remember that FLV Seek and Streaming are two different things but appear to the end user as being the same. Limelight Networks have provided some useful information about FLV Seek and how you can utilise the benefits: FLV Seek When [...]
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 [...]
crossdomain.xml and you
Posted in Announcements, Technical, tagged crossdomain, crossdomain.xml on February 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
At mydeo, our crossdomain.xml file is not stored at the root of our domain(s). If you’re trying to access http://ht.cdn.mydeo.net/crossdomain.xml or http://mydeo.vo.llnwd.net/crossdomain.xml and wondering why they aren’t working, that’s because they’re not there! Mydeo does not use a wildcard crossdomain.xml file, meaning that if your domain is not already listed in our crossdomain.xml, you will need [...]
C# API Sample Project Now Available
Posted in Announcements, Technical, tagged api, download, m3api on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Download our sample project for an even quicker start! We’ve put together a sample project that demonstrates how easy it is to get started with the API. In this first, basic sample project, we demonstrate the creation of a Helper Library to help you centralise calls to our API within your own solution, and how [...]