sâmbătă, 30 ianuarie 2010

Loomiere/Stream - A high performance streaming server

UPDATE: The code is now freely available under GPLv3. Please see this post for an update.


ATTENTION: Due to the fact that myself and my company are not yet satisfied with some issues regarding the legal terms of Loomiere/Stream, I think it is wise to take it (temporarily) offline until we resolve our concerns! Also some of the technical characteristics have been retracted.



Are you killing psstream?


Well, yes! I am sure that many of you already know about psstream (the PHP streaming extension I made a while back). Well, many things happened since then and I came to realize I could do better; a whole lot better actually. As of now the 'psstream' project is officially no longer developed (see below). It will remain on the website for some time to come for archiving purposes but that is it.

But wait, why did you do it?


For some time now I have be looking into improving the streaming mechanism for a large video-sharing project run by my company. PSStream was a first effort, and it did the job but soon ran into problems. None of our servers was able to properly stream more than 150 clients simultaneously and the resources were grossly wasted, hence, Loomiere/Stream.