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Enabling Secure HTTP for 主播大秀 Online 鈥�- audio and video
Lloyd Wallis
Senior Architect, Online Technology Group
Once 主播大秀 web pages could be served over HTTPS, the next step was to do the same for our audio and video distribution.
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Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs
Elliot Thomas
Software Engineer
We operate a HTTP cache known as Radix. Its purpose is to act as a uniform origin for client-facing HTTP distribution systems. With new streaming formats and ever increasing bitrates putting strain on the existing storage capacity, these systems do require upgrades from time to time.
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Balancing, spikes and speed: Architecting media distribution cloud services
Henry Rodrick
Senior Software Engineer
Cloud technologies have radically changed how most organizations develop and deploy software, and the 主播大秀 is no exception. Within the 主播大秀, we鈥檙e using the AWS platform a great deal, for instance the CloudFormation infrastructure management tool and our own AWS based deployment system Cosmos.
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BIDI: The 主播大秀 Internet Distribution Infrastructure explained
Federico Benedetto
Product Manager
BIDI is the 主播大秀鈥檚 own content distribution platform and is responsible for delivering media directly to the 主播大秀 end users in the UK. The clients are always presented with a 鈥楥DN mix鈥� from which they can fetch the media they are interested in. BIDI is part of this mix, alongside the commercial CDNs.
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Developing our Standard Media Player for Android
Matt Mould
Software Engineer
Users of the 主播大秀鈥檚 Android mobile applications are familiar with the need to install the separate 主播大秀 Media Player application to access multimedia content. This application is a solution for playing video using the proprietary Adobe Air media format.
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Building alerts on 主播大秀 iPlayer audio and video consumption
Daniel Harper
Software Engineer
Are all of our 主播大秀 viewers using the iPlayer able to view content right now and how can we alert operations teams quickly when problems happen?
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Distributing digital media: How we improved throughput by 4x
Alistair Wooldrige
Senior Software Engineer
This post investigates why internal Varnish architecture limited a caching server to 4 Gbps, and why replacing Varnish with nginx increased output to 20 Gbps.
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Digital distribution: Analytics with logs and heartbeats
Ralfas Jegorovas
Technical Product Manager
Delivering media content to our audiences across the internet is a complex task involving many technologies and many organisations. So when a problem arises it's important for us to be able to narrow down the problem efficiently so that it can be fixed as quickly as possible.
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HTML5 Player Beta update: More details on the new trial
Lloyd Wallis
Senior Architect, Online Technology Group
The 主播大秀 has been providing media content online for almost 20 years. We started with Real Media and evolved through Windows Media, progressive downloads, and RTMP in Flash. The distribution method preferred today is chunked HTTP delivery.
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New HTML5 player beta trial for 主播大秀 iPlayer
James East
Product Manager, Media Playout
We鈥檝e been regularly evaluating the features offered by the most popular web browsers and we鈥檙e now confident we can achieve the playback quality you鈥檇 expect from the 主播大秀 without using a third-party plugin.
