Forum OpenACS Development: Re: ANNOUNCE: NaviServer 4.99.8 available

4: Re: ANNOUNCE: NaviServer 4.99.8 available (response to 3)

Posted by Steffen Tiedemann Christensen on 04/14/15 09:35 AM

Good to know! I really need to look into the project of switching our core over to to NaviServer. It is complicated by the fact that we use a fairly old and fairly modified version of OpenACS.

We use the h264 delivery mechanism less and less these days ourselves, but we never actually used ad_background_returnfile for the purspose. Instead we've simply got a tcl thread handling the reading and writing. HTML5 and byte ranges have decreased the use of this drastically though.

5: Re: ANNOUNCE: NaviServer 4.99.8 available (response to 4)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 04/14/15 09:51 AM

The same with us (that's why a rewrite of h264 is not top prio). i just looked up our figures for video deliveries for our production site: factor h264/html5 = 1/9, with peaks on htm5: 5.500 per hour.

Concerning ad_returnfile_background: it has the same interface like ns_returnfile. The changes for NaviServer in OpenACS are mostly due to using features of NaviServer not available in aolserver. If you get a recent version of OpenACS (e.g. the tar file), just grep for NaviServer, these should be pretty easy applicable for every OpenACS mutant.