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All tutorials related to S3 Amazon and cloudFront with emphasis on video and audio
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Embedding a video/audio playlist is not difficult at all, it only requires your full attention. In this tutorial (part 2), I’ll show you how to embed a dynamic playlist. A dynamic playlists differs with a regular playlist in a sense that you do not need to create a separate xml file. For this tutorial, you [...]
S3 Amazon public content in danger of being hacked
All S3 Amazon account holders should be aware that there are hacker scripts around that scan for public content in S3 buckets. Amazon has warned all account holders if they have public buckets. Reading public content is quite easy since public files are readable to everyone. But what does that actually imply and what can [...]
How to Embed Streaming Video & Audio with HTML5 Fallback – using JW Player 5.6
JW Player 5.6 is a Flash video/audio player created with Adobe Flex which has the capability to switch to HTML5 fallback mode if a non Flash browser is encountered. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to download and install JW Player and how to embed video and audio from S3 Amazon/CloudFront, making [...]
S3 Amazon and DreamHost: a perfect marriage
By placing all heavy files on S3 Amazon/CloudFront, you only need a lightweight solution like DreamHost for your site itself. That way you have the best of both worlds. Both services are very cheap and easy to deal with. In the past, I had my doubts regarding DreamHost and indeed, playing video or audio from [...]
Converting video to streaming MP4 for S3 Amazon with AVS Video Converter
Some video converters do not get it right when converting video to MP4 to stream on S3 Amazon/CloudFront. Especially the cheaper converters like AVS Video Converter for Windows tend to have problems. Luckily, there is a trick to fix this problem. Here you find a video tutorial on how to get the correct settings from [...]
Streaming HD Video test on S3 CloudFront
It is a while ago since I did a test with an HD video on S3 Amazon, so I thought this might be a good moment to go for it again. As we all know, HD video on video services like YouTube, Vimeo and others play reasonably well, although they inevitably stutter at some point. [...]
S3 Cloudfront: How to setup a bucket for private streaming – revised
To avoid problems with streaming video and audio, in particular private streaming, the way to go is to start with a fresh S3 AWS bucket without any content in it. Decide upfront which bucket is going to contain media for streaming and which one for private streaming. This way, you avoid confusion about the nature [...]
S3Media Stream™ to protect your video and audio on WordPress
Sometimes, you do not want to show video or audio to everyone. Or you want to show it to everyone, but you do not want third parties to publish your media on their site. S3 Amazon combined with Private Streaming can help you with this. I wrote already an article on this subject, namely S3: [...]
S3: Private Streaming MP3 audios on CloudFront is a problem. The solution is simple.
Private streaming MP3 is problematic on S3 Cloudfront. It often does not play and you get no error message telling you what the problem is. The fastest and best way to deal with this is to convert your audio to M4a, the format used for iTunes. I know, you are not looking forward to this [...]
S3: Managing files and folders with CrossFTP for Mac
It is hard to find a good application to manage your files and folders on S3 Amazon for MacOSX users. CrossFTP Pro is luckily one of them and believe me, I tested quite a few, including Cyberduck, Transmit and others. Therefore, I think this is an excellent moment to create a video tutorial to demonstrate [...]
S3: News from the CloudFront! Private streaming video – revised
With CloudFront you can not only stream your own videos, you can make streaming videos private on top of that! In other words, you can have paid videos on your site or membership area without the fear of copying the video. You can do the same thing with expiring URLs but private streaming has other [...]
S3: Rich media plugin for Joomla 1.5 – S3Media Pro™
It is so far! We just launched our very own commercial plugin for Joomla “S3Media Pro” which, apart from regular media, also supports video and audio from your S3 Amazon account, including expiring URLs to protect you media against leeching and unauthorized sharing as we discussed in S3 Amazon: Protect files against unauthorized use. The [...]
S3: Streaming video with CloudFront
With CloudFront, you can stream your own audio and video without using any code or installing complicated server software. CloudFront is an Amazon service which works in conjunction with your S3 Amazon account (S3 AWS). What the service basically did so far was to serve content from your S3 account to the closest server in [...]
S3 Amazon: Protect files against unauthorized use
Here you see how you can create expiring URLs to protect your files from leeching and this time we work with CloudBerry Explorer Pro, the competitor of S3 Browser. The Pro version does not differ much from the free version when it comes to creating expiring URLs, although there are a couple of features which [...]
S3 Amazon: How to embed video in your site
You want to embed video or audio from S3 Amazon into your site? This article tells you how to deal with the code involved to get your videos and audios up and running. You can use this code in practically any cms or regular website. Now, for content management systems like Joomla, WordPress or Drupal, [...]
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