Hi all.
I was wondering if anybody in the community was currently using a dedicated streaming media server alongside their installation of matrix for serving audio and video on their matrix websites?
Our organisation is currently investigating the possibility of setting up a dedicated streaming media server that could be partially integrated with Matrix. Ideally I would think you would provide a form (asset builder, custom form + javascript API or whatever) from Matrix that would take some basic input(title, description, file etc) set up the required assets in matrix(and add any code that needed to be embedded etc) + upload the media to the dedicated server.
I'm reasonably sure matrix can handle all of this without too many issues but I wanted to know if anyone had done anything similar / had any advice to give on the matter.
I know the MySource Mini has a streaming media server 'built in' so I will definately have a closer look at how that works, if any of the squiz developers who worked on that want to chime in with some advice that would be great. In my case the media server would be a seperate server from the web application server.
Cheers.
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Hi all.
I was wondering if anybody in the community was currently using a dedicated streaming media server alongside their installation of matrix for serving audio and video on their matrix websites?
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We (are Radio NZ) are doing this. My advice is to not do any streaming from Matrix. We do all our streaming from a Content Delivery Network, with Matrix only holding references to the audio.
Happy to answer any questions.
cheers
Richard
What rhulse suggests is a good idea. Amazon EC2 is just the ticket for this. 
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What rhulse suggests is a good idea. Amazon EC2 is just the ticket for this.
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EC2 is quite slow for on-demand streaming.
If you have a limited geographic reach you could set up your own server and run it in tandem.
cheers,
Richard