[Dev] Streaming server - experience?

[Paul Trilsbeek]

The traditional true streaming solutions (RTP) are not used a lot any more these days to my knowledge due to all the hassle with firewalls. For video, pseudo-streaming is extensively used by all the major online video services, which is basically a http progressive download with some server side solution to chop up the file in pieces to allow for random access to parts that have not yet been downloaded. It doesn’t work for audio-only though (although I never really understood why) and it is fairly easy to figure out the download link by looking in the source of the HTML. I agree with Dieter that in principle anything that you see or hear via your computer can be captured in one way or another, but perhaps the HTTP Live Streaming solution that was put forward by Apple would be something to look into. It seems to support some kind of DRM, it is supported by many clients including mobile platforms and there seem to be lots of server implementations available:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Best,

Paul



On 19 Dec 2013, at 16:50 , 12/19/13, Dieter Van Uytvanck <dieter.vanuytvanck at mpi.nl<mailto:dieter.vanuytvanck at mpi.nl>> wrote:

On 19/12/13 16:09 , Matej Durco wrote:
one of our partners within CLARIN-AT is planning to setup an audio
streaming server
with an important aspect being the ability to control the access to the
resource.
(i.e. allow streaming, but prevent downloading (or at least make it more
difficult))

I guess this is not quite in line with the overall Open Access strategy
of CLARIN,
but, well, we discussed this often enough, there are resources you dont
want to
or even may not spread without control.

So I thought, I'd tap the "community knowledge"
hoping somebody has some experience or even a solution for this
(preferably non-commercial).

Hi Matej,

Paul (in CC) might have some hints on this based on our experiences. Of
course there always exist ways to capture the sound stream on your local
computer somehow, so the question is if it is really effective.

best,
--
Dieter Van Uytvanck
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
www.mpi.nl<http://www.mpi.nl> | tel. +31-(0)24-3521-191 | skype: dietervu.mpi

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