Hello Everyone,

Just one comment and question.

1) we're using the squid to optimize HLS (http based) video streaming exactly 
via caching, so you can deliver more efficiently a cached video segments 
instead of directly communicating with an origin server(s).
2) does anyone know, if/when collapsed forwarding feature is going to be 
incorporated into Squid 3.x?

Best regards,

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 10:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [squid-users] How to optimize squid config for live flash video 
streaming?

On 21/07/2012 5:58 a.m., J DJ wrote:
> My squid proxy is not caching (using the "cache deny all" in 
> squid.conf), and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or 
> resources on how to optimize it for live flash video streaming?

There is no optimization for live streaming without caching.
The Squid collapsed-forwarding feature for splitting single response to 
multiple clients relies on responses being cacheable (even if not
stored) so that multiple clients are *allowed* to receive them. Live streams 
are usually marked as non-cacheable, and Flash video is even worse since each 
stream has different framing intervals depending on when each client connected 
with adaptive bitrate frames depending on each clients individual end-to-end 
latency.

This assumes the stream is an HTTP data stream. A lot of streams these days are 
ICY protocol, even if displayed by a Flash script interpreter.

Amos

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