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The Media Streamer provides streaming capabilities for video and audio files. The service takes advantage of Amazon Cloudfront streaming, so files to be streamed must be within a space spaces on an Amazon provider. Also, all media to be streamed by this service needs to be within a single space.
Amazon Cloudfront streaming uses the Flash Media Server to host streaming files over RTMP. File formats supported include MP3, MP4 and FLV among others. For a full listing of supported file types see the Flash Media Server documentation.
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- Source Media Space: The DuraCloud space(s) where the source video and audio files to be streamed are stored. The Media Streamer service attempts to stream all files in this space.
- Viewer Space: A DuraCloud space where example viewer files will be stored. After the service has started, this space will include a playlist including all items in the source media space as well as example html and javascript files which can be used to display a viewer.
- in the selected space(s).
Integration Files, the following files are intended as a starting point for integrating streaming media into your own websiteOutput Files, the following files can be found in the configured Viewer Space once the Media Streamer is running:
- player.swf - The flash-based video player JWPlayer
- playlist.xml - A playlist, created by DuraCloud, which includes all of the An example playlist which would include a list of items in your Source Media Space
- playlistplayer.html - An HTML file , created by DuraCloud, which uses JWPlayer to display the items in the playlist
- singleplayer.html - An HTML file , created by DuraCloud, which uses JWPlayer to display a single media file (typically, the first item in your Source Media Space)
- stylish.swf - A supplementary flash file used to style the JWPlayer
- swfobject.js - A javascript file (available from here) used to embed the JWPlayer on a web page
- viewer.js - A javascript file , created by DuraCloud, used to simplify the loading of JWPlayer
All of the output above files are intended as examples only. Their purpose is give developers a starting point for embedding video streamed by DuraCloud on their own web pages. Feel free to use, modify, ignore, or delete these files.
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If you add files when the Media Streamer service is already running, they too will automatically be available for streaming. |
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