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Video Storage & Access

by Dave Everett
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I am looking for a service that will allow me to store videos for a membership site and allow members to access and view them. Does anyone know of such a service that doesn't cost the earth. I just joined Amazon's AWS S3 service but got totally lost in the technical detail.
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  • Profile picture of the author ehicks727
    Originally Posted by dalepubs View Post

    I am looking for a service that will allow me to store videos for a membership site and allow members to access and view them. Does anyone know of such a service that doesn't cost the earth. I just joined Amazon's AWS S3 service but got totally lost in the technical detail.
    I'm sure there are other services to do this, but I've been totally sold on Amazon S3. In my opinion, there's nothing better.

    Get yourself a FireFox plug-in called S3 Firefox Organizer
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247

    Here's one step that I think confuses a lot of people, You have to create a "bucket" first. So use the Firefox S3 plug-in to make your bucket. Then you can upload your files, or create more organizational folders in your bucket.

    Then, when you want to put the video in your web page, just find your video file using the S3Fox plugin, right click it, and select "copy url to clipboard" and you should get something like this...

    http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/filename.mpg

    Then you can add that to the HTML of your page. You need a player of some sort, but that's a different post topic.

    If you're running Wordpress, there's even a plug-in for Wordpress that let's you access your S3 account, and upload/post media directly from Wordpress.

    Hope that helped.
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  • Profile picture of the author James Schramko
    Also you can use ezs3 to make players and manage your account. I've been researching this the last few days looking for a replacement to Google Video...
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    • Profile picture of the author blogonator
      I heard amember does a pretty decent job storing stuff for member site owners.
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      Hasta la WinVista, Baby!

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  • Profile picture of the author Alp Bozkurt
    Playing with CNAME records you can point your own subdomain to a S3 bucket.

    Then give people download URL as your own subdomain myvideos.dalepubs.com/1.mpg

    The video will be served from your S3 account but people will see it as downloaded from your own subdomain. Pretty cool eh? It will use S3 bandwidth, not your subdomain at all.

    Amazon S3 :: CNAME in DNS server

    If you can't implement it drop me a PM and let's see if I can help you further.

    Best,
    Alp
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Everett
    ehicks727 - Many thanks for the guidance - now in the middle of uploading (slow!!) first files. Using EasyMemberPro so hope everything works OK.

    Alp Bozkurt - sounds like an excellent idea. Might be sending you a PM in the near future.

    Thanks to all who have helped so far.
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