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Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Streaming Media Content

35 points by jeffbarr 17y ago

ChadB 17y ago
The most useful information on the current state of RMTP client libraries I could find: http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/01/19/rtmp_flash_video_streaming_protocol http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/01/19/rtmp_flash_vi... I suppose it was only officially published by Adobe at the beginning of 2009...
chrischen 17y ago
Does anyone know if you can stream using Adobe Media Server to a silverlight player?
- felixmar 17y ago
  It is possible to write a Silverlight client that understands Adobe's RTMP protocol if you really need it, but for non-live streaming to a Silverlight player i recommend IIS with smooth streaming on the origin server(s). The media chunks are delivered through HTTP so any CDN will do.
  - Skeuomorph 17y ago
    Except, say, CloudFront, which requires S3 as origin.
MicahWedemeyer 17y ago
I wish they would enable some sort of HTTPS support on CloudFront. It's a major pain to have an image or file on CloudFront and try to serve it on a secure page. IE throws up a security warning and people run away. HTTPS can be done by falling back to the original S3 bucket address, but still, a major pain in the ass.
jonknee 17y ago
I am very happy to see this--setting up streaming servers is a pain and I already have tons of video up on S3.
DanBlake 17y ago
How much per mb is amazon currently charging for bandwidth?
- tdupree 17y ago
  You can find the Amazon CloudFront prices here: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ For United States Edge Locations it is $0.17 per outbound GB for the first 10TB. So using between 0MB and 1024MB will cost you $0.17. Use 1025-2048MB and you will be charged $0.34.
blantonl 17y ago
One thing that isn't apparent to me is if these new Cloudfront features support Live streaming. Does anyone know if Live Streaming is supported, and how one would go about implementing? All I can see from initial docs and tutorials is that you upload static flash content.
- nethergoat 17y ago
  Given that S3 must be used as the origin, I suspect live streaming is not possible at this time (S3 does not support streaming upload).
- SamAtt 17y ago
  From The Register... AWS says that it can currently support stored, on-demand media now but will support the streaming of live events sometime in 2010. Here's the link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/aws_s3_cloudfront_media/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/aws_s3_cloudfront_me...

35 points by jeffbarr 17y ago

ChadB 17y ago

The most useful information on the current state of RMTP client libraries I could find: http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/01/19/rtmp_flash_video_streaming_protocol http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/01/19/rtmp_flash_vi... I suppose it was only officially published by Adobe at the beginning of 2009...

chrischen 17y ago

Does anyone know if you can stream using Adobe Media Server to a silverlight player?

felixmar 17y ago
It is possible to write a Silverlight client that understands Adobe's RTMP protocol if you really need it, but for non-live streaming to a Silverlight player i recommend IIS with smooth streaming on the origin server(s). The media chunks are delivered through HTTP so any CDN will do.
- Skeuomorph 17y ago
  Except, say, CloudFront, which requires S3 as origin.

MicahWedemeyer 17y ago

I wish they would enable some sort of HTTPS support on CloudFront. It's a major pain to have an image or file on CloudFront and try to serve it on a secure page. IE throws up a security warning and people run away. HTTPS can be done by falling back to the original S3 bucket address, but still, a major pain in the ass.

jonknee 17y ago

I am very happy to see this--setting up streaming servers is a pain and I already have tons of video up on S3.

DanBlake 17y ago

How much per mb is amazon currently charging for bandwidth?

tdupree 17y ago
You can find the Amazon CloudFront prices here: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ For United States Edge Locations it is $0.17 per outbound GB for the first 10TB. So using between 0MB and 1024MB will cost you $0.17. Use 1025-2048MB and you will be charged $0.34.

blantonl 17y ago

One thing that isn't apparent to me is if these new Cloudfront features support Live streaming. Does anyone know if Live Streaming is supported, and how one would go about implementing? All I can see from initial docs and tutorials is that you upload static flash content.

nethergoat 17y ago
Given that S3 must be used as the origin, I suspect live streaming is not possible at this time (S3 does not support streaming upload).
SamAtt 17y ago
From The Register... AWS says that it can currently support stored, on-demand media now but will support the streaming of live events sometime in 2010. Here's the link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/aws_s3_cloudfront_media/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/aws_s3_cloudfront_me...