I'm about to create my own website to stream my livestream and maybe livestreams of other friends I have to. Now I'd like to know if there are any tools or CMS's which are like specialised in livestream pages/websites.
Is there any way I can make a secured website with the tools which are free to download or do I have to code them myself in php/html?
Edit: I'm planning on streaming video with audio.
Which is from one to many (1 streamer - more watchers)
And since I'm (a bit) lazy, I'd like to know if there is any source/tool/CMS which makes it easy to create a secure website to use as a streaming website. So when I start my stream, all people which are on my website are able to see the stream with video and audio.
Thanks in advance.
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I know this is a very broad question, but my main focus is about the video hosting/playing part. For example for real-time video streaming we can use WebRTC or for livechat systems using Socket.IO is a common choice maybe.
But I have no idea how to create a video hosting/playing website like Youtube, Instagram or Coursera? I mean a website that users can upload videos and other users can watch it.
What libraries should I use for this purpose in both Front-End(Flutter) and Back-End(NodeJS) side?
What specific requirement is also needed for such a website? I mean maybe special type of servers/hosting services? Etc.
I have an online class website where I have put videos for different courses. Users can view the videos, but I want them to be unable to download the videos by any means (e.g using any third party software or by copying the video link). How can I implement this?
HLS wont make it impossible to download video, it's just going to make it harder to download, infact it's impossible to disable downloading.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hls-downloader/apomkbibleomoihlhhdbeghnfioffbej?hl=en
You can use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to transcode your videos to HLS(HTTP Live Streaming). HLS use segments of the encrypted video from s3. This will prevent downloading of videos from s3.
https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/
So I lead a team of engineers located across 3 timezones, and when we have a meeting we record it, so that it can reviewed at a later date. Currently we are just storing it on an apache server. If someone wants to watch one of the videos they must download it and then watch it.
Would it be possible to configure it so that they could stream the videos instead of downloading them?
Thanks :)
If the video is mp4, and if you have reasonable bandwidth available, then you can simply make the video available on your server and use the HTML5 video tag on a web page to stream it.
If you don't have or don't want a separate web page just for this, then you can use a general purpose video player, such as VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html, and simply provide the URL to the video on your server.
One thing to be aware of - a regular MP4 file has the metadata at the end of the file, but for streaming you want this to be moved to the start of the file. There are several tools which will do this (google mp4 fast start) - here is an example:
https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart
I have some audio and video files which will be served from server to browser on request. Now I need a way by which "Users can watch or listen to media but shouldn't be able to download in anyway (even with developer tools or download manager plugins)". Kindly share your ideas if you have had experience on this.
If you are streaming it to them you can't stop them downloading it as, in extreme cases, they can simply capture the network traffic.
It sounds like you may want to encrypt the content using one of the commonly used encryption techniques and then find a secure way to share the encryption key with your users and their devices/players. This way any captured or downloaded content will not be of use to anyone without the right key.
This is essentially what DRM technologies do so it would probably be worth you investigating them - you can integrate the functionality to your own sever or simply host your videos with a provider who provides the functionality and embed their video player on your site.
I'm doing a language web site for my university language center, where students login and see videos to learn English. i have to do it like this,
person is logging in to the system, search using a search area and find the details,lessons and videos relevant to that videos. this functionality exactly matches the youtube scenario.
for implementing twitter like functionality we can use status-net, is there a similer library, statusnet like famous implementation for youtube or a some kind of platform or a framework like codeigniter that we can use to implement youtube like site very easily??
please suggest some options?? a open source one or a commercial one ???
and what is the best video format to use in a such web site?? flv?? mp4?? or mov???
regards,
Rangana
Your best option is to use a 'cloud' based video processing service. Most have a sample project / library for many different languages and frameworks. Here is a list of a few I've tried and liked:
http://zencoder.com/
http://transloadit.com/
http://pandastream.com/
The typical steps involve uploading the video files to a large 'cloud' static asset host (such as S3) through the browser. If you are inexperienced it is best to select a processor that provides an uploader (it will handle putting the files in the right spot). Of the three, Transloadit and Panda both have custom unloaders.
Usually the service will allow you to either pass the encoding settings (what formats and qualities to) output to as parameters or configure them in your account. To support all current HTML5 browsers you just need H264 (.m4a) and OGG (.ogv). However, the new trend in the video world is for WEBM (.webm) so you might want to include it as well.
Next you will receive a unique code from the web service that you must store in persistent storage (database). The web service can be configured to 'callback' (perform an HTTP POST or GET request to your service) once the video is encoded.
Once your recieve a callback you can activate your video and start dislpaying it on your pages. For displaying, if you are inexperienced I'd highly recommend you use one of the following players:
http://sublimevideo.net/
http://longtailvideo.com/
http://videojs.com/
They all do similar things for different prices. My current personal favourite is Sublime Video (it offers cool light box effects and a gorgeous player).
Why do you have to re-implement Youtube when you can just use it for hosting your videos for free? Many online e-learning portals (e.g. Khan academy) do exactly that.
As far as the best video format to use -- go read about H.264/AVC. It's what Youtube currently uses.
I think you will not find already built solution ;)
But it's not really that hard. You can use existing frameworks that will make your life easier while you build account management system, the rest shouldn't be really that hard (assuming you don't really want to re-build the whole Youtube ;D ).
For playing videos, you can use JW Player. A great piece of software, you should check it out.