Gyaro Video Chat

March 30th, 2012

Recently a new script for video chat come out, Gyaro, it looks a bit like Gchats, but the big advantage is that the red5 app doesn’t connect to the script database, this renders it more stable. We tested also the new script Gyaro with wowza and it works great, this means better quality then Red5 can provide and theoretically there are no limits to the number of online simultaneous users, one single server and you can have 2000 online users!

Gyaro vs Visichat/Gchats vs Avchat vs Videowhisper

At Hosting Marketers we have lots of experience with video chat sites, we working on them since 2005, actually we were the first hosting company offering Red5 on shared hosting plans. Many times our customers have asked for advice on buying a video chat software, normally we would advice for the gchats, because although the look of avchat is more trendy and much easier on the red5 we never seen an avchat script with over 100 users simultaneously online, I don’t say they don’t exist, I’m sure they do, but I never seen it on our servers, red5 crashes before that, not sure why, perhaps it uses too much RAM? Not sure but for a busy site avchat is not the solution, the same can be said about videowhisper script, nice, very trendy, but simply not reliable for high traffic sites.
That is why we had to recommended gchats script, not easy to work with, every time we change the red5 server, we have to ask permission from gchats, I think nowadays they even charge $20 for a change of IP if done more then 5 times a year.
Then the Gchats needs special settings on the red5 and on the MYSQL because the visichat application connects to the MYSQL. All this said gchats in my opinion will not work well when more then 200-250 users online. It is better then videowhisper and avchat, but falls short comparing it to the new Gyaro script. Gyaro seems to me at this stage more secure against hackers, more stable, and if using a wowza RTMP can easily reach 600-700 users without any special server or degrade on the chat quality.

For these reasons Hosting Marketers is happy to recommend Gyaro to its customers!

Gyaro Demo Chat Login as guest or take your time to see how the registration works.

The developers of this script are offering Hosting Marketers customers a 5% discount,

http://gyaro.com/purchase-hosting-marketers.php

If you have any question or you would like to offer feedback about this script you are invited to post a comment or contact us

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SD Web Camera vs HD Web Camera – Online video applications

March 2nd, 2012

In today’s fast growing video/audio usage in applications like, Live Streaming, Video
Recording, Chats and Video Conferencing, there are many key stakeholders that impact
your overall experience with the technology.
Some of the key factors influencing your overall experience are:
1. Bandwidth
2. Streaming Server – Red5/Wowza/FMS (arguable)
3. Software used for broadcasting video/audio stream
a. Code Quality
b. Codec used
c. Settings like resolution, fps, keyframe etc etc
4. Computer used for broadcasting
5. Camera/Microphone used for broadcasting stream
For sake of our scope we are only interested in discussing the importance of a high
quality camera for your broadcasting uses. There are many web cams available in the
market, promising a decent resolution of 2 Megapixel and much more. (8 Mp, 10 Mp etc)
Example: IBall Face2Face C8.0 (My old camera)

Then there are new ranges of HD cameras coming up which promise a decent 720P or
more for video capturing/streaming.
Example: Logitech HD Webcam C510
So what we will see now is how a HD camera edges over a standard (“good enough”) 2 Mp camera! Firstly I have seen many people saying HD = 1280 x 720 or 1920 x 1080, and that’s it!
This is fairly incorrect from what I observe. HD cameras are bundled with drivers that enable them to capture greater details applying H264 codec compared to standard web cameras. Remember that all video encoding technologies use compression techniques to pack frames efficiently. Then the broadcasting codec decides the encoding technique/algorithm to use, which causes further loss of data.
Thus it is important that your source of capture ie: Camera device should be able to capture as much details as possible.
Below are 2 sample images from each of the two cams, showing the true difference between SD and HD capture.

 

1600 x 1200 using IBall C8.0 face 2 face
1280 x 720 using Logitech HD C510

 

A you tube video to help you understand better:

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In truth most of the webcams out there boasting 2 / 5 / 8 mega pixels are little more than vga cameras enhancing resolution by software processing. If you hardware is truly capable of capturing HD details, then its worth paying for. The new H264 codec support in flash is like a high prospectus pipeline. So while your standard VGA cam is good for transferring a few glasses of water down the pipeline, its not fully utilizing the pipeline’s potential. So get yourself a good HD cam and see the difference yourself.

By Rajdeep Rath, Java developer and CEO of http://rtmpworld.com/

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2checkout Hosting Marketers offer

February 23rd, 2012

About a year ago requested by our customers we implemented a new payment gateway for credit cards all of types and debit cards, using 2checkout solution.

And we are very happy about it, it increased our sales nearly 20%, although of course paypal is our customers main gateway, the 2checkout has allowed many new customers to register with us, mainly from countries with restrictions on paypal but even western customers who simply prefer to use their credit cards.

For this reason and following our policy that what is good for our customers is good for us and vice versa, we have partnered with 2Checkout to be able to bring a great offer to Hosting Marketers Customers. As a Hosting Marketer, you can get FREE account setup instead of the usual $49 USD signup fee.

Please continue reading and find out the coupon in the customer area:

http://hosting-marketers.com/customers/knowledgebase/10077/2checkout-offer.html  (login necessary)

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How to broadcast live with fmle

February 20th, 2012

Short tutorial on how to broadcast live using fmle (flash media encoder). and for the player using the adobe strobe.

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Adjusting settings on FMLE for live streaming with Wowza

February 16th, 2012

I started on the bitrate I used 400Kbps, and on the fps I started with 30, but it lags and really is blurry. On the format I have to use H.264, because with VP6 doesn’t work on VLC and mobile devices.  The audio should be AAC or MP3. If it is MP3, make it Stereo, 44100Hz, 128kbs for best results. AAC audio is preferable.

But the fps at 30 didn’t work, I increased the to 50 and voila it started to work nicely, no buffering nice quality, increasing to 60 even better.

I think lower then 50 fps doesn’t work well and it doesn’t work with the VLC also.

You can try yourself at our Wowza control panel.
username: demo
password: demo

To broadcast use the desktop encoder FMLE, can be downloaded here.

The RTMP on the demo account is password protected, please use:
username: demo
password: demo

 

A word about fps, the higher the better but at the cost of bandwidth. Each frame has a size, so frame size X fps  = total bytes/s approx. Then you have to consider number of keyframes, the more the better motion capture details but even higher bandwidth needed.

For h.264 for example each level of encoding limits the fps and frame size that you can use for best results. Our eyes practically cannot see the difference between 15 and 18 fps, then 18 and 20,  so for web 15 fps will seem very good at the same time saving bandwidth.

For webchats for example like skype etc 12 to 15 is best. For broadcasting a football match over the web 24 – 30 will be ideal if you broadcasting for flash players only, but for devices, android and apple iphones, it is better to use 50 to 60 fps.

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Levels

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