Introduction
The DuraCloud application provides a set of services which can be deployed and used for a variety of purposes, primarily to process the content which has been loaded into DuraCloud storage. The following list of services describes how each service is expected to be used and the options available for tailoring the service to your needs.
If you start a service, you will receive an email when it completes processing. For each of the services below, if they are run independently, they will not auto-restart if they fail during processing. If you are made aware of a failed job state, you have the option to redeploy the service. Some services are run automatically by the DuraCloud Executor, and as such their state is managed by the Executor. In particular, these are the Media Streamer and the Bit Integrity Tools services.
Not all services are available in all service plans.
Media Streamer
Description:
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 spaces on an Amazon provider.
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.
Configuration Options:
- 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 the selected space(s).
Integration Files
The following files are available as a bundle on the downloads page.
They are intended as a starting point for integrating streaming media into your own website.
- player.swf - The flash-based video player JWPlayer
- playlist.xml - An example playlist which would include a list of items in your Source Media Space
- playlistplayer.html - An HTML file which uses JWPlayer to display the items in the playlist
- singleplayer.html - An HTML file which uses JWPlayer to display a single media file
- 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 used to simplify the loading of JWPlayer
All of the 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.
If you add files when the Media Streamer service is already running, they too will automatically be available for streaming.
