How Do I Stream Camtasia Videos From Amazon S3?

by FlyingQuokka

Posted: 16 years ago 12 replies

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Hi,

I've made some Camtasia training videos that are quite large in size, so I would like to store them on Amazon S3 and have them streamed from there. However, I'm having quite a problem trying to figure out how to specify the url to the videos stored in my S3 bucket.

Unfortunately, the S3 manuals only give examples of how to dynamically retrieve files from the buckets from within code. With Camtasia, it seems you need to use a static url in the xml file it generates, which means you need to send your pre-prepared password and security key on the url, which I just can't seem to get to work.

Has anyone managed to figure out how to do this, as it would be an incredible saving, if I can get it to work?

Debbie

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richard-pc 16 years ago

I am streaming audio from s3 and flash movies.

The best tool I have found to upload and download + find the url of the files is the S3 addon for firefox. Getting files up there is just drag and drop, and then you simply right click for the url.

I live in Bath, so feel free to get in touch if I can help in anyway.

Regards, Richard
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- jjpmarketing 16 years ago
  
  I second the notion on the firfox add in. Makes it a lot easier to deal with.
  
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Mike Hill 16 years ago

What's involved when you want to stream those videos from Amazon S3 onto a Joomla membership site secured by aMember..?

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- tecHead 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mike Hill
  
  What's involved when you want to stream those videos from Amazon S3 onto a Joomla membership site secured by aMember..?
  
  Mike Hill
  
  S3 has a (couple of) tutorial(s) showing you how to set up a CNAME for your S3 bucket(s); (which surprisingly not many -- even "gurus" -- seem to utilize); which would allow the actual URL of the media to be 'stealth' (in a way).
  
  Meaning, your URLs would look like...
  http://your.sub-domain.tld/media_file
  
  as opposed to...
  http://your_bucket.domain.tld.s3.amazon.com/media_file
  
  Then you would (best case scenario) have aMember handle the authentication or access to said media.
  
  S3 has, built in, an individual user authentication method... but, at first glance it seems to be an individual model. Where, if you're serving to a mass audience, authenticating individual users could prove to be rather time/resource consuming. So, as I stated above, IMHO it would be best to allow the Membership software you already have in place handle the authentication of access to said media files.
  
  Hope this helps...
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  tecHead
  
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  Josh Anderson 16 years ago
  
  How to use amazon S3 to stream your Camtasia Videos
  
  http://ablakeforum.com/index.php/topic,266.0.html
  
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  Mike Hill 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Josh Anderson
  
  How to use amazon S3 to stream your Camtasia Videos
  
  S3 amazon streaming content with subdomains setup
  
  Thanks for that Davids video makes it much easier....
  
  Mike Hill
  
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  FlyingQuokka 16 years ago
  
  Hi,
  
  Having read all the various articles and posts I was referred to that explained in a rather long-winded way how to do it, I thought it might be a good idea to summarise the process here, to make it easy to access the solution. So, this is how you do it:
  
  1. Create your bucket in S3 e.g. mybucket
  2. Create a sub-domain on your main domain with the same name as your bucket e.g. mybucket.mydomain.com
  3. Set up a redirect for your sub-domain to point it to s3.amazon.com. Amazon will automatically get your bucket name from your sub-domain name.
  4. Make sure you set the permission to 'Everyone' on the files in your bucket that you want to access.
  5. Change the url in the <uri> tag of the <video1> section at the bottom of the ????_config.xml file to http://mybucket.mydomain.com/myvideo.flv, obviously substituting your sub-domain and file names.
  
  That's it, your video should now be streamed from your S3 bucket, instead of your hosting account.
  
  I hope that helps anyone who is trying to do this.
  
  Debbie
  
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  Jim M 16 years ago
  
  This was a hard one to figure out at first - theres no doubt that the S3 Firefox Organiser plugin made the task a whole lot simpler - highly recommended
  
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  David_Thompson 16 years ago
  
  Thanks Josh & Mike for showing the link to the video
  I enjoyed making these type of videos and it help
  and it such a simple way to setup 5 to 10 minutes
  you're done...
  
  ---David
  
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  SALINAS 15 years ago
  
  Good stuff.. I watched the video 1 time and got it right.. never used S3 or amazon until today..
  
  thanks!
  
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IMer 15 years ago

the main thing to remember is that you must make your files accessible to everyone. S3 Fox doesn't do this by default (wish it would) and it will cause strange errors if you don't.
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Cash Blasters Online 15 years ago

I agree with others, you got to have FireFox to do the job right.
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