Anyone in their right mind would have bought a small riding mower. At our new place, the lot is nearly half an acre. When the Toro died this spring (I think it busted a rod, or something else pretty major in the engine), I started looking at battery-powered options again.
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We’d been eyeing electric mowers for a while, but either they were corded (obnoxious – chance of mowing the cord is high!), or had enough battery life to make you need a wagon full of spare batteries, and in neither case did they have enough oomph to cut grass that had gone more than about 12 hours since the last mowing. It worked well, but after a while, the tedium of dealing with oil and gas and all those moving parts makes you think “there’s got to be a better way”. When we moved into our previous house almost 11 years ago, we went on a coupon-fueled shopping spree at Home Depot, and picked up your standard 4-stroke gas-powered mower. Do note that Apple spec recommends a 10-second segment length (which is the Wowza default), and you may run into bandwidth issues as requests for the chunks would be more frequent.I’m going to veer off my usual topics here to give you my thoughts on a recently acquired tech toy of a different flavor: My lawnmower. You can do this by selecting your Wowza live application, and selecting the Properties tab (possible only if you have enabled Advanced Settings on your Manager UI account). If you do need to stream to mobile devices and latency is important, you can opt to tweak the HTTP streaming packetization in your Wowza server so that your target chunk durations are shorter.
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But if you know that your target audience will only be using desktop, you control these machines (such as in an internal corporate network) where you can install the required plugins, and latency is a paramount requirement, then RTMP might be a better choice for you, as RTMP is a streaming protocol and is inherently less latent. Mobile devices don't support RTMP unless you use an app (like the VLC mobile app). The playback formats that you choose is really dependent on your target audience and players. Note that you need to include the application instance (default is _definst_). If your application name is vodedge, and you are streaming sample.mp4 from your amazons3 source, your example playback URL would then be: You will then need to create a VOD Edge type of application which can access these MediaCache sources. Each of these sources are identified with a prefix (for example, amazons3). MediaCache sources can be a Cloud storage provider (currently AWS S3, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure), a file server, or a web server. To use MediaCache, you need to first create the MediaCache store (where the cached content is stored) and the MediaCache sources (where your Wowza server will obtain the remote content). On initial player request, it grabs the specified number of blocks from the remote location and caches the segments locally, which it then serves to all subsequent player requests. This is a more optimal way of streaming content that is not located locally.
Since it sounds like you are trying to stream VOD files from a web server or S3 bucket, it's best to use the Wowza Streaming Engine MediaCache functionality.