Build a Simple Media-streaming Rails App

Dinh, Phuong; Cameron, Jon

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Build a Simple Media-streaming Rails App Public Deposited

Slides from an on-line workshop given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus: This workshop will provide a general overview of streaming media technologies and applications, as well as a hands-on portion where participants will configure a simple Rails application with a streaming server. Topics will include a brief overview of commonly used streaming servers and applications, both local and cloud-hosted; file formats and codecs; streaming media protocols and their differences; and browser support. The workshop component will include a walk-through of setting up Nginx as a streaming server, building a Rails app with stream security and authorization. Docker containers will be provided.