Last year we selected Ramp eCDN as Microsoft-certified eCDN solution for Microsoft Stream, and successful applied Ramp Multicast+ in multiple internal webcasts for control on the internal video delivery. For diverse reasons on another webcast Microsoft Stream is insufficient (lack of customization options to provide a rich virtual event attendee experience, lack of guest access). Business selected a product company with their own cloud-based streaming platform. The player used in that platform is THEOplayer, consuming HLS video traffic.
An aspect that remained is that at IT / connectivity level, we must prevent network saturation on the internal network. So we explored whether possible to leverage Ramp Multicast+ also with this HLS-based THEOplayer. According to a promotional this should be possible, but it turned out that neither of the 2 involved vendors actually had it working. In a DevOps way of working with the 3 involved external parties (production company, Ramp, THEOplayer), we identified the code-pieces that are required to make the combination THEOplayer + Ramp an actual reality. With the required result: the global audience that was watching this webcast direct connected to the company LAN, all consumed the video traffic flawless as one shared multicast stream. Without negative effect of public internet connections at specific locations + countries.
Proof of Concept code in plain JavaScript: THEOPlayerAndRampPoC.js. Based on successful PoC validation, this code-snippet was reused by vendor to include the Ramp Multicast+ optimized video consumption in their THEOplayer usage, via typescript THEOplayer hooks module.
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