Comments on: Streaming video from Amazon S3 to a Flex application

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:12:52 +0000

Good read. I have the cloudfront and s3 setup, and am trying to stream video to my site with the JW Player. To “stream” video, I have read that you have to upload the client player(in my case JW player5) to a Amazon S3 bucket. Then use it as a “Download” to provide the viewer the JW player from S3 directly. For the video file, you have to upload it to S3, and then enable Distribution through CloudFront. I downloaded CloudBerry Explorer to use with the AWS, and once my video is Deployed, I have read, that I copy the RTMP address of the file, and put as the source in the JW Player code. This is where I’ve ran into an issue, I don’t know if my RTMP link(which is supposedly the Streamming link) isn’t working or what. I can get my video to come up in a browser when I copy the http from the properties of the video file in CloudBerry, it plays in Quicktime and not JW which made me wonder. I just need to know more about the cross-domain.xml and just the overall process of how to get my streaming CloudFront video to embed and play w the JW Player on my web site. Can someone help?

By: video converting

video converting — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:59 +0000

I wish I read this before i took the wrong way, it could have saved me a lot of time. thank you!

By: wearecloud

wearecloud — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:07 +0000

I’m going to guess that it is not streaming.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:26:42 +0000

Good article. One question: Is this actually streaming the file or is it progressive download? If it is streaming, can you detail a bit more about the inner workings of the SWF? From your description it sounds more like a progressive download than an actual streaming file, but it’s hard to tell.