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 [...]
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Comparing Mydeo to Amazon S3
Posted in Articles, Technical, tagged cdn, mydeo, streaming, video streaming on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mydeo customer origin
Posted in Announcements, tagged cdn, customer origin, LLNW, m3, uploading, video streaming on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mydeo now have the ability to collect content from your servers and deliver it via the Limelight CDN. This is what is known as customer origin. Basically, your server will become part of the network and you will not have to upload your content anymore. This is particularly useful for people who already manage content [...]
Top tips for online video
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged http delivery, m3, progressive download, tips, video streaming on June 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What is the best Bit-rate for online video? The main thing to remember when dealing with online video is that the delivery of the video is hugely dependant on the viewer’s internet connection. The slower their internet connection, the lower the quality your video will have to be for them to receive it without any [...]
Online video basics – Definitions of commonly used terms
Posted in Articles, tagged definitions, glossary, m3, terms, video basics, video streaming on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Online video basics – Definitions of commonly used terms Bandwidth Bandwidth is defined as a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits per second) that can be transmitted along a channel. If you think of the communications path as a pipe, then bandwidth represents the width of the pipe that determines how much [...]
Windows media live streaming: Push vs. Pull
Posted in Articles, tagged live streaming, m3, video streaming, windows media on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Windows media live streaming: Push vs. Pull When encoding Windows media 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 [...]
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