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Hey everyone, While we're completing the cache feature within MistServer, we figured we write a guide about one of the major reasons why we created this cache in the first place. The ability to cache HLS segments instead of serving an uniqu
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Hey everyone, We're making some well needed changes to the automatic track selection within MistServer. Currently unless a track is masked from the specific process it will always default to the last added track. This decision worked pretty
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Hey everyone, Today we wanted to talk about Resume support or Source disconnect behaviour. This greatly impacts how your live streams behave when a source drops, reconnects or simply needs to restart. Whether this is because of power failur
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Hello everyone, We've finished our long overdue beta guide for the MistServer load balancer . The load balancer has the awkward honor of being both in beta and active use for over 8 years already. The original planned features for the load
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Hey Everyone, This is one for the slightly more advanced users of MistServer that want to run multiple servers at once. Usually we get asked what we would recommend for setting up multiple servers. Luckily it does not matter too much what y
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Caching almost ready for MistServer Back in January we reported working on caching within MistServer. Well the good news is that we're now close to starting our first tests with this feature. We're already seeing some great uses for this fe
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Hey Everyone, We noticed some unexpected behaviour when it came to fallback streaming with MistServer. MistServer would properly send viewers to the fallback stream, however it would never send them back to the original source if that becam
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Hey everyone, We'll be adding more raw formats within MistServer soon enough. Currently we only support UYVY and other raw formats need a conversion, while not necessarily a problem it does use up memory and it feels inefficient. So we have
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Hey everyone, We have created a guide on how to use the new composer. We noticed that while there is a lot of excitement for the multiviewer, there is also a bit of confusion on how to use it. Not entirely unexpected at it is quite an advan
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