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Very Technical Question

by stiznef
6 replies
Hey Everyone,

Does anyone know how I can get my videos which I'm hosting with amazon ezs3 into posts on my blog? ezs3 creates java as the embed code.

Is there a way to do this without having to know java?

Thanks in advance.

Stiz
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  • Profile picture of the author imarketstuff
    hey there stiznef

    may i see one of the video urls that is generated from amazon s3? i'm building a service that works with hosted videos and maybe it can help you.
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  • Profile picture of the author naffets77
    What are you using to manage your s3 account? Are you trying to hide the videos so that they cannot be streamed from another website?

    Basically there are two ways to do this, you set your videos as public. Then you can get a url that will always point to the video, and from there you can use basically any video player (google jw player, or longtail) to play the videos.

    However, if you're worried about hot linking where another site grabs that link and uses it to show your videos (maybe that's okay if they're marketing etc..) and it can be difficult (have to comb through some logs) to find out if hotlinking is occurring. Please reply what you're trying to do as the second option of hiding your videos is a bit more involved.

    If you use S3Fox (Firefox extention) or some other S3 manager you should be able to easily change the permissions on your uploaded content and get urls directly to the videos.
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    • Profile picture of the author stiznef
      Thanks for the help.

      Basically all I'm looking to do is put videos on my blog. This was easy with youtube etc. With ezs3 it's different as the code it creates is java.

      I just want to be able to put videos that I'm hosting with ezs3 into my blog posts.

      The code has some links within it, but these links when I try to visit them don't show the video page it goes to a directory.

      Here is what the code looks like.

      <script type="text/javascript">
      var playerhost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://articlemarketingbootcamp.s3.amazonaws.com/ezs3js/secure/" : "http://articlemarketingbootcamp.s3.amazonaws.com/ezs3js/player/");
      document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + playerhost + "wmv/4EAA9757-E88F-74B8-E2D28C5CFD607996.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
      </script

      This code works in a normal html editor, but I don't know how to get this video into my posts.

      Thanks for the help.

      Stiz
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      • Profile picture of the author naffets77
        That code worked for me when I tried it on my websites. Something about getting started with EZA.

        However, when I first clicked on it, i had to install a plugin from windows, so maybe you're missing the plugin? I would try watching the video in another browser because it def works.

        Also, you may want to try and use flash which everyone has (i.e. how youtube displays its videos), but that might be more complicated for you to setup (if you want to pm me i might be able to help you with that).

        Also just an fyi, the code it's generating is javascript not java (stupid name confuses everyone :/)
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        • Profile picture of the author stiznef
          Hey Thanks,

          I actually figured out what the problem is. The file names for ezs3 have to be in all lower caps, otherwise it won't function properly in wordpress. I made the change and the videos play perfectly.

          Thanks for your help.

          Stiz
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  • Profile picture of the author unsmashed
    I'm assuming you're referencing amazon s3. That just hosts files - so the answer depends on how you encoded the video. If it was FLV, then find a flash video player and pass in the location of the file on s3.
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