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Don't. That's why YouTube and Vimeo exist. The bandwidth cost for streaming videos will be astronomical.
Oct 28, 2017
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Level 6
Best way to stream video in Laravel
I am relatively new to the world of streaming videos from PHP. I am wondering what, in Laravel, is the best way to start a video stream. Obviously, I wouldn't want to just send an entire video all at once, since that would take an incredibly long time to load.
Could I get some tips/pointers to help me get stated?
Level 6
@topvillas I understand. However, I would still like to learn how it works and build some implementations of my own.
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Level 5
Have a look here: https://github.com/PHPJunior/laravel-video-chat
Although it's about a video chat, it will show you some basic techniques about Laravel & setting up a video stream.
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@thefriendlyhacker: Curious what came of this inquiry.
Level 2
- Video trancoder for videos to make in ffmpeg for various resolution.
- Upload that videos to any kind of s3 storage server
- link that video files to your video player.
- Use CDN for the s3 files for seamless streaming.
Level 67
@shohagmonzur Why would you need s3 AND a CDN? Are you referring specifically to Cloudfront?
@thefriendlyhacker Also... when you say "streaming" are you referring to merely playing video? ...or what streaming actually means, which is live streaming video? For playing videos, you'll want a CDN... Vimeo is technically a CDN and a very good one for video. Laracasts uses Vimeo for its video player / video hosting. Many CDNs provider their own video player. Limelight is another one I've seen used.
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@fylzero Yes Cloudfront for edge location and regional caching and i provide the solution for independent & self-hosted streaming application.Not rely to any other third party players like vimeo.
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