I am really interested in installing MediaCore and wanted to know if I can link videos from a Amazon S3 bucket. Amazon has extremely good pricing for storage and I'm interested in serving video files that are 45m to 1 hour long.
Is this possible?
Linking to files on Amazon S3
16 posts Started 2 years ago by Mason Latest reply from Mason
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You can link to files located anywhere on he web as long as they are appropriately encoded. To test, login to the admin demo username: demo and password: demonstration. Then go to media, and add new media. Add a file, then where it asks for the URL just add your link to a video on S3. Then enter a title, hit save, and preview it.
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I tried this, but get a message that says, "Failed to add this file. Please try again." It's a .m4v file, h.264 encoded. I've also attempted to add .mp4 files also, and still get the same message.
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Can you post the link so we can have a look?
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Ah, it should do it. We must have put a control in there for the demo. If you can leave that file on s3 today I'll have the engineers look at it.
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Will do. I was just wanting to confirm. I am seriously interested in using mediacore and trying to count the cost so to speak. I will have to upgrade my server package so that I can get python 5 installed. I currently have 4.5.5 I believe. But a major part of my plan was to ensure that I could use my Amazon storage because the cost is so cheap. Additionally, I really look forward to the HTML5 player. I'm currently using one for Wordpress ( http://soukie.net/degradable-html5-audio-and-video-plugin/ ) that's degradable to flash if the browser is not HTML5 compatible. This is important also because it seems that the web is going this way and we have quite a few Webkit and iDevices searching our site.
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MediaCore 0.8 already has html5 video support. Basically you can add a flash file and it will play that in a browser for all non-webkit devices. If you add an additional file encoded for html5 on webkit or firefox it will automatically serve that file to those devices.
I'll be posting a demo to the demo part of the site later today to demonstrate. I'll let you know when it's ready so you can check it out.
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Hey phillipsmn, I fixed the bug preventing adding S3 content earlier this morning. It'll be rolled into v0.8rc2 release later today. Give it another try in the demo if you like!
Cheers, Nathan
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I'm testing it now. Thank you guys for your rapid response and action! I'm definitely beginning to feel like I'm making a great decision with MediaCore.
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The S3 linking works great. In Chrome and Safari (Mac OS X) the video loads in JWPlayer and looks great. I tested on my iPad and it doesn't load (that's where I'd expect to see HTML5). It will play fine when I click the "download" link though.
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I also have a quick question about the HTML5. Does MediaCore convert say Vimeo files to work in the HTML5 player? This would also be awesome. I tried it out with another video, but it's not showing on my iPad.
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It could do this if:
1. You are the owner of the original video, you publish it to vimeo, and then convert the video to h264 or ogg theora. Then add the vimeo link to MediaCore, and the ipod compatible file. It will then work.
2. Vimeo supports uploading and encoding to html5. Right now this is beta: http://vimeo.com/blog:268
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1. I thought that MediaCore automatically switched players based on browser/content. I am sending the same media to MediaCore as I am sending to my degradable flash to html5 player and it switches automatically.
2. I knew that Vimeo is in beta on this, but currently HTML5 only works on their site vimeo.com and only on the newer videos. So this won't work on MediaCore that way (I was wondering if y'all did a live conversion using ffmpeg or something to play via the HTML5 player.
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Here's an example working on the iPhone, iPod, iPad. If you visit the page in a browser (non webkit) it'll serve flash, if you go on your iPhone it'll serve HTML5. We'll be adding a custom HTML5 player once there are a few good options out there.
http://getmediacore.com/media/ipod-video-testIn terms of using Vimeo, until they open up their API there's really nothing we can do.
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Awesome. It works exactly like I'd expect! Great work!
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