[Recommended Conversion Servers?]

8 hours ago, Emilia said:

That sounds unrealistic to me. I've never seen performance like that an older cpu like Xeon D-1540.

Do you compile ffmpeg from source and make modifications to kernel as well?

We use bare centos 7 with static ffmpeg builds .  XEON processors even if older run more efficient than desktop processors. 

 

4 hours ago, Tech Support said:

This depends on many factors, such as the number of video formats (e.g. 1080p, 720p, 480p) you create and their duration. So the plain number doesn't actually mean anything. Also check if CPU is the actual bottleneck in your case, as it can be possible that slow HDD reducing ffmpeg speed, while CPU is not even fully loaded.

 

That's correct  it depends on many factors like video formats and video duration , we never looked really into how many videos it encoded per day but what worked best for us.  SSD tend to be faster than mechanical HD on normal 480p, 720p, 1080p but not on 4k which is about the same.

[same channel videos on video....]

I think he is asking if possible to show related videos from the same channel of the video user is viewing if that video belongs to a channel.

 

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I really never counted how many videos per day are encoded because videos are always different in size and duration and depends how many videos users upload or we upload.

But both servers usually encode way more than 500 videos per day.

For encoding we use CRF at 25 for free tubes and CRF 21 for premium videos and pay-sites.

 

 

[Recommended Conversion Servers?]

Hello

I have tried many ways of remote servers for encoding.

We had local servers consisting of I9 10core/20 thread but the cost of power plus dedicated fiber cable was not worth it.  So we found best solution to be 8C/16T servers from so you start which are pretty cheap.

Our numbers 

Local (our office servers) 

Dedicated fiber cable  1Gb -  €120 / month

Electricity costs to run two servers 24/7 -  € 90 +

Two servers at so you start - €110 euro.

So easy choice. If you need info on how to setup  the servers let me know we could help

 

 

 

 

[How to change number of categories allowed when user uploads video]

Default  number categories allowed by user when uploading video is 3, how to change it to another number.

[KVS 5.5.0 discussion and poll]

FTP is not the easier way but also a better option if setup the same way as ftp content is for content balance.

The possibility of having screen/timelines on different servers around the glove will be a better option then NFS

[KVS 5.5.0 discussion and poll]

16 hours ago, xvids said:

Hi, 

Feedback For MPEG-DASH and HLS

 

My recommendation is please use: 

https://www.fluidplayer.com/#overview

https://github.com/fluid-player/fluid-player

This player have many feature which required for KVS.

you can test. and its easy to configure. thanks to their javascript work.

for temporary you can use this player after some time you can make your branded player. to make enable license 

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Conversion Videos to HLS

My recommendation:

OLD VIDEOS: convert Popular videos to HLS. or convert Videos which are being watch .

because converting all old videos is not good idea but if we don't convert popular or hits videos or users favorite videos, its also not good idea.

in the video market i think there is only 3 category:

Public, Premium, Private.

and hls is required only one group is .m3u8

 

Please create a poll for hls or create a topic for HLS suggestion.

 

my humble request is please consider subtitles. because i want to start a movie website.

all of these feature is possible with fluidplayer

Very nice looking player , KVS team should make it as option in the new release

[KVS 5.5.0 discussion and poll]

 

On 12/10/2020 at 10:50 AM, Tech Support said:

Live streaming is not something that is on our radar at all. Please consider using other software for this.

 

KVS stated that you will look at implementing HLS as written above " vote for your 2 desired features in 5.5.0 (we already know for HLS / adaptive streaming, so it is not included)  "

HLS Stands for HTTP Live streaming so by implementing HLS you are already adding live streaming, so it will be possible to add HLS m3u8 urls I guess this will be great to build live channels list sites.

 

On 12/10/2020 at 10:50 AM, Tech Support said:

Tokens are part of KVS anyway, and the engine will use token anyway to run its internal calculations. You can consider 1 token = 1 cent, and 100 tokens = 1USD, if needed you can render prices in USD instead of tokens in site templates (e.g. ${{$data.tokens_required|number_format:2:'.'}} - should render $1.05 instead of 105 tokens).

The only problem right now is that KVS has no way for use to come and purchase a single video / object straight away, e.g. pay $2.95 for this or that. In KVS user will be required first to purchase a package of credit to their account and then use this credit for internal purchases. So instead of just paying $2.95 user will have to purchase $10.00 credit (1000 tokens) and then spend $2.95.

This is both good and bad. Bad because this is not convenient to users and they have no ability to spend the exact amount. Good because you could get more money, since some users could spend $10 instead of $3, even if they originally wanted to spend only $3.

I understand how token works in actual version , we are using it already in one of our sites . But for users to sell private videos or subscriptions to their channels better option was to have have single video/object purchase in $$.

 

[KVS 5.5.0 discussion and poll]

Apart from above topics also some add ones  to look at are:

1 - Live streaming with user live chat ( similar to youtube live stream).

2 - Add a function to choose between tokens or real money.  Tokens are great for adult sites but money is preferable for mainstream sites.

3 - Ability to use streaming servers for content like wowza , wowza allows for HLS streaming and secure streaming.