<font color="#333399"><font>Hi again,<br><br>I am glad a little Googling + some basic reading made me able to answer your expert question! :oP<br><br>I
am still no expert, but from what I read on the link I gave you, there
is a link to how to prepare files to be served in streaming.<br>
It was mentioned that if a file is not prepared as it should be
(metadata at the start of files), the consequence was the calculation of
this missing metadata CPU & I/O overhead, including extra harddisk
use... which is bad for performance! They even not mention the cache
faults...<br>
It is said that the metadata must be the first thing read in a file
which is read sequentially from the beginning. So, if your metadata is
at the end... I let you finish that ^^<br><br>Nginx, like lighttpd, is
able to do that on its own but that kills performance, so the better the
files are prepared, the less you will use resources on your server.<br>However, as Igor mentioned, it is only about moving metadata, not encoding the whole files again, which is a simpler task to do.<br>
<br>If you wish to process your files and that you have a lot of them,
maybe it is not worth it to do so with a unique and long shot.<br>Maybe
you could make your files served through some checking server-sided
script, which will serve the data from the current file and concurrently
regenerate a new well-made file for future requests?<br>
That's maybe not the best solution but that would allow to start
converting regularly served files first. Of course it would be a
temporary one...</font></font><br clear="all"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">---<br></span><b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">B. R.</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:23, Mark Alan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:varia@e-healthexpert.org">varia@e-healthexpert.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:51:19 -0800, Michael Shadle <<a href="mailto:mike503@gmail.com">mike503@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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> I suggest using "qt-faststart" which is a simple command line tool<br>
> which does this.<br>
<br>
</div>A sort of qt-faststart howto:<br>
<a href="http://www.stoimen.com/blog/2010/11/12/how-to-make-mp4-progressive-with-qt-faststart/" target="_blank">http://www.stoimen.com/blog/2010/11/12/how-to-make-mp4-progressive-with-qt-faststart/</a><br>
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<br>
M.<br>
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