Setting permissions for Amazon S3 bucket delivery from Encoding.com

Amazon access permissions are set by the user who creates the object. By default, when Encoding.com sends a encoded file to a user's Amazon S3 bucket it sets the permissions of this file to authenticated-read.  If you want your file to be public readable, add ?acl=public-read to your destination URL, like this: http://your.bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/folder/file.ext?acl=public-read This will Read more

Amazon S3 Integration Overview

Encoding.com was developed to work seamlessly with the Amazon S3 storage service as either the source location of your video library or the destination location where we send videos after encoding is complete. A basic understanding of Amazons ACL permissions is recommended and we would highly recommend reading through our articles on integrating Amazon S3 Read more

Using Amazon S3 with the Watch Folder

AWS watch folders are a beautiful thing. Let's lay out a couple ground rules before we begin, shall we? + Make sure your destination is NOT a source location subfolder. You should NOT use /some_path/videos as a source and /some_path/videos/encoded as a destination unless you want an infinite loop. + The destination should be in Read more

What can I do—S3 is just not working for me?

You’ve read all the help articles, you’ve done your homework, and S3 is still giving you grief? In many cases, we’ve found that one simple check will help. Perhaps your source or destination URL looks like this:   http://[your_accesskey_code]:[your_secretkey_code]@CLIVETHEGOAT.s3.amazonaws.com/path   We have to remember that Amazon AWS does not recognize capital letters of bucket names (the Read more

Optimized S3 Transport

We have implemented a new multithreaded transfer protocol that greatly accelerates transmit time out of Amazon S3’s storage location.  On average we are seeing a 4-5X speed improvement  with peak up to 10x faster than our legacy protocol.  If your source media is stored on Amazon S3, you can activate multithread download by adding ?multithread Read more

Information on Amazon bucket policies

Yes! Give this a try if you're wanting to incorporate amazon buckets into your integration method.   This policy will allow CloudFront to gain access to private content.  {  “Version”:”2008-10-17″,  “Id”:”PolicyForCloudFrontPrivateContent”,  “Statement”:[{  “Sid”:” Grant CloudFront Origin Identity access to private content”,  “Effect”:”Allow”,  “Principal”:{  “AWS”:”arn:aws:iam::cloudfront:user/CloudFront Origin Access Identity PRIVATE” // This is the origin ID specific Read more

Can Encoding.com integrate with Amazon Web Services?

Encoding.com offers proven S3 video integration solutions. Amazon Web Services (AWS) comprises a series of remote computing/web services that make your life easier. Infinitely scalable and use AWS with Encoding.com to create a workflow with storage locations and services accessed via HTTP. Use Encoding.com for all of your cloudfront streaming needs. Amazon’s S3 Interface can Read more

How to Use the Encoding.com User Interface: A Comprehensive Guide

Encoding.com has changed the video encoding landscape yet again by bringing all of the power and functionality of our API to the browser and launching a web interface that rivals any desktop video encoding experience. It is easy to throw a lot of features into a browser, but much more difficult to make those features Read more

Microsoft Smooth Streaming

  Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS) is an extension to IIS Media Services that provides the capability for adaptive streaming of video media over HTTP. MSS is complaint with 3GPP, MPEG and DECE adaptive bit-rate standards for HTTP streaming. As with the other types of adaptive bitrate streaming, MSS can dynamically adjust movie playback quality to match the available speed of wired or Read more