Hi folks, I noticed this announcement of a new feature from Amazon Web Services that relates to streaming video distribution and may be of interest to some here.
Here is the AWS announcement: > Amazon CloudFront Adds Access Logs for Streaming > Amazon CloudFronts access log feature now works with streaming > distributions. This means you can now get detailed activity records > about every stream you serve from CloudFront. This information lets > you answer important questions about how your customers are using > your content. You can learn who is watching your videos, which > videos they are watching, when they watch and when they stop watching. > > Every time Amazon CloudFront receives a streaming event like play, > pause, seek or stop an access log record is created. Included in > that record is the name of the video being streamed, the type of > event, the number of bytes sent, the edge location serving the > stream, the viewers IP address, and several other data elements. > Activity logs are formatted in a W3C standard format, so they are > compatible with a wide variety of tools and analytics solutions. > Once enabled, access logs are written at least once an hour to an > Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. There are no additional charges > for access logs, beyond normal Amazon S3 rates to write, store and > access you logs. > > Since we launched streaming, access logs have been one of the most > requested features weve heard customers ask us for. Were happy to > make this capability available starting immediately. You can read > more about this feature in the Amazon CloudFront developers guide. > taken from http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/13/amazon-cloudfront-adds-access-logs-for-streaming/?ref_=pe_8050_15319810 Here's a short url: http://is.gd/clftw Also, here is product description for CloudFront from http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ > Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It > integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and > businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low > latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. > > Amazon CloudFront delivers your static and streaming content using a > global network of edge locations. Requests for your objects are > automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is > delivered with the best possible performance. Amazon CloudFront > works seamlessly with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) > which durably stores the original, definitive versions of your > files. Like other Amazon Web Services, there are no contracts or > monthly commitments for using Amazon CloudFront you pay only for > as much or as little content as you actually deliver through the > service. > to illustrate how one might apply this, here is a nice visual from a vendor offering iPhone encoding for S3, Amazon's Simple Storage Solution and Cloud Front. http://www.encoding.com/amazon/apple_streaming.php alternatively, you could just do the transcoding yourself ffmpeg. Here's an tutorial on how to set up a mass transcoder using Amazon's Elastic Cloud http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=691 Cheers! Markus Sandy http://apperceive.com http://twitter.com/apperceptions [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
