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Building a video distribution network in 48 hours

7 points by jon_dahl 17y ago

nopal 17y ago
It's a slick site, but the lack of streaming from the CDN would be a deal breaker if I were looking for a Web video hosting solution.
- jon_dahl 17y ago
  Developer here. If you're talking about "streaming" as live playback from one location to another, we don't do that, but that's a totally different product anyway. If you're talking about "streaming" as auto-buffering, we can definitely do that. It's temporarily disabled on some pages to keep file transfer costs down.
- brandonarbini 17y ago
  Another developer here. I think you may be referring to an actual Flash streaming server. We're currently using Amazon CloudFront that doesn't support it. We're taking a good look at Limelight and others that do support Flash streaming for the future. Thanks for your feedback.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    have a look at 'wowza' for live stuff if you ever go that way.
  - nopal 17y ago
    Yes, that's what I meant. Quicktime streaming, too. Basically providing a way to jump around in a video, even if the video hasn't been been buffered to the point you want to play. Again, nice looking site and service!
- jawngee 17y ago
  Most people use progressive HTTP. And a lot of CDN's support that now (bitgravity, panther/CDNetworks).
qeorge 17y ago
Great looking site, and a neat app. From the title I expected that the service would push the video to YouTube, Myspace, Vimeo, etc. (i.e. superdistribution), which would be more useful to me. Are there a lot of content producers who don't want their videos to spread? Congrats on finishing a cool app in 2 days, and best of luck in the competition!
- jon_dahl 17y ago
  Good suggestions. Definitely worthy of the backlog.
jawngee 17y ago
But this is built on top of your zencoder product? So this really wasn't done in 48 hours?
- Heff 17y ago
  It's actually built on FlixCloud, which is built on Zencoder. http://www.flixcloud.com/ http://www.flixcloud.com/ In the Rails Rumble you can build your app using any external services available to everyone. Half the apps were built on the Twitter API.

7 points by jon_dahl 17y ago

nopal 17y ago

It's a slick site, but the lack of streaming from the CDN would be a deal breaker if I were looking for a Web video hosting solution.

jon_dahl 17y ago
Developer here. If you're talking about "streaming" as live playback from one location to another, we don't do that, but that's a totally different product anyway. If you're talking about "streaming" as auto-buffering, we can definitely do that. It's temporarily disabled on some pages to keep file transfer costs down.
brandonarbini 17y ago
Another developer here. I think you may be referring to an actual Flash streaming server. We're currently using Amazon CloudFront that doesn't support it. We're taking a good look at Limelight and others that do support Flash streaming for the future. Thanks for your feedback.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  have a look at 'wowza' for live stuff if you ever go that way.
- nopal 17y ago
  Yes, that's what I meant. Quicktime streaming, too. Basically providing a way to jump around in a video, even if the video hasn't been been buffered to the point you want to play. Again, nice looking site and service!
jawngee 17y ago
Most people use progressive HTTP. And a lot of CDN's support that now (bitgravity, panther/CDNetworks).

qeorge 17y ago

Great looking site, and a neat app. From the title I expected that the service would push the video to YouTube, Myspace, Vimeo, etc. (i.e. superdistribution), which would be more useful to me. Are there a lot of content producers who don't want their videos to spread? Congrats on finishing a cool app in 2 days, and best of luck in the competition!

jon_dahl 17y ago
Good suggestions. Definitely worthy of the backlog.

jawngee 17y ago

But this is built on top of your zencoder product? So this really wasn't done in 48 hours?

Heff 17y ago
It's actually built on FlixCloud, which is built on Zencoder. http://www.flixcloud.com/ http://www.flixcloud.com/ In the Rails Rumble you can build your app using any external services available to everyone. Half the apps were built on the Twitter API.