Re: [squid-users] Netflix+squid

You would need a proxy server for video streaming.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:21 PM, <mbaki_at_whywire.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Amos,
>
> I still haven't configured/deployed anything yet. My
> approach is to have a server in the U.S. But I thought maybe there is a
> better solution/approach to this deployment. Maybe a proxy server local to
> them and configure it to use my proxy server in the U.S as its upstream
> proxy.
>
> Thanks
> Monah
>
>
>> On 15/02/2013
> 1:24 p.m., mbaki_at_whywire.com wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Hi all,
>>>
>>> A friend of mine has a company
> outside
>>> the U.S, and
>>> wants to provide Netflix
> to his customers.
>>> Since I can setup a proxy here
>>> for him and have his
>>> clients use my proxy to
> access netflix, is there any
>>> other solution that can
> optimize it even better.
>>
>> Better than what? you have
> not provided any information on what
>> configuration settings you
> are using, we cannot tell whether you
>> configured it for good
> performance or not.
>>
>>
>>> Can you
>>> cache the videos
>>> by the way?
>>
>>
> Unknown. You will want to look into the cached object size limits
>> (default maximum_object_size directive is probably too small for
> large
>> videos). then look into whether the videos are actually
> cacheable. Paste
>> one of their URLs into redbot.org for info on
> that.
>>
>> Amos
>>
>

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