Good morning, We are currently exploring architecture options for storing and serving up streaming video from our Fedora Commons repository. We run our own Wowza streaming server, and the option to require authentication for viewing the streamed video is a requirement.
Among the questions we are discussing, and I was hoping to get feedback on, are: - How to generate the player markup directly from Fedora (using either XSLT or a custom disseminator) and still be able to challenge the user for credentials? We're investigating options for having the user enter credentials into the player itself (using a Flash-based player such as JW Player), but the challenge there appears to be passing the credentials in cleartext as part of the rmtp connection request, and not over an SSL connection. - How to avoid duplication of storage? Ideally, we would like to store the video files as managed data streams in Fedora and feed those to the Wowza server, rather than storing separate copies for Fedora and Wowza. One option for this would be to use Wowza's API to consume the video directly from a Fedora URL. Has anyone ever experimented with this? Thoughts on co-locating Fedora and Wowza in the same Tomcat container or at least on the same hardware, to reduce the network latency issue? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. I did search the archives before asking this question, and there was some helpful information, but from about 1.5 years ago, and I'm sure that a lot of work has been done in this area since then. Thanks, Paul -- Paul Grotevant, Senior Software Developer/Analyst University of Texas Libraries / IT Architecture and Strategy p...@utexas.edu 512-495-4374 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
