Blog.

Engineers at 3Crowd have been crazy busy these last months, a lot of advanced features are being made available to our current and future users as we speak, which will result in a lot of blog updates during the weeks to come.

Today’s feature highlight involves CrowdCache™ and video media assets.

• While CrowdCache™ had already been handling FLV progressive download video seeking, we are proud to announce that it is now fully compliant with MP4/H.264 video seeking.
• While we were at it, we introduced a pretty interesting configuration feature that lets CrowdCache™ and CrowdDirector™ users to configure the way the CrowdDirector™ handles and transforms URL query arguments when getting passed to your Media Origin when a cache-miss occurs.
• We are also proud to announce that we also added configuration knobs for you to tune the way your CrowdCache™ fleet handles data rate-throttling since it was a feature that was on top of our ‘public-demand’ list. Again, we walked the extra mile, and made it configurable on a per-MIME-type basis. Even better than that, if you know that your video file’s metadata is correctly recorded, you can even choose your files to be served in accordance to this bit-rate metadata. And that is quite an original feature that you won’t likely find with any other legacy CDN

All of these newly available features have been illustrated together in one comprehensive how-to mini-site, which details how you can efficiently use both CrowdCache™ and CrowdDirector™ to get all the features from your favorite existing CDN vendors or from your own Video Web proxy servers – it includes code examples and embeds with the most widespread video players around, namely JW Player and Flowplayer.

We sincerely hope you find this tutorial useful and welcome any feedback you may have for us. We plan to roll-out many more of these mini-sites to answer your most popular feature highlight demands.