XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox.

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Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

MediaPlug is an EC2 based media appliance server capable of handling all your media encoding needs. Convert and manipulate images on the fly, transcode audio and video to mp3, flash, H.264, 3GPP for mobile devices and other popular formats, scan files and documents for viruses and more.

In our benchmarks we were only able to push 35 MB/s on small instances. So the actual requests per seconds were dependent on the object size we were pushing. The limit was always ~35 MB/s. Our typical HTML pages were around 50 to 70 KB, so we couldn’t reach the desired requests per second as our instance was at its bandwidth limit.

Usually when one instance hits its resource limits you load balance multiple ones. HAProxy is a fine example for a very robust TCP/HTTP load balancer. The problem is though, that it will not increase your bandwidth as all your traffic has to go through this one HAProxy instance. So even when you load balance multiple instances, each one is capable of pushing ~35 MB/s (—> ~350 MB/s with 10 small instances), the bottleneck will still be at ~35 MB/s (aka the load balancer).

The final release of the xmoov FLV player has lots of new and exciting features like a multi-language interface, caption support, even more styling options, a customizable context menu (right mouse click), and improved CPU usage just to name a few. We are not releasing any information on the licensing model until the new website is online but will be releasing two versions, a less featured BASIC version and a full featured PRO version.

After 2 days of researching, I've just found how to do FLV streaming the right way!

Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages.

The JW FLV Player is the Internet's most popular and flexible media player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP, HTTP, live streaming, various playlists formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive javascript API.

The skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its look and its plugin architecture allows you to easily extend the player with features such as sharing, recommendations, searching, analytics and ad serving.

We offer a powerful and reliable means for quickly and successfully moving your content at a global level. With the Highwinds CDN, you can distribute content and digital media over our vast, high- performance RollingThunder network, and manage all aspects of your content strategies with our full-featured StrikeTracker console.

Producers can use the Livestream browser-based Studio application to create LIVE, scheduled and on-demand internet television to broadcast anywhere on the web through a single player widget.

Our service comes in two flavors Free (ad-supported) and Premium (white-label, no-ads, pay for usage).

Unique features include the ability to mix multiple live cameras, imported videos clips, and overlay graphics.

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