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Building a video distribution network in 48 hours

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7 pointsjon_dahl10 comments

It's a slick site, but the lack of streaming from the CDN would be a deal breaker if I were looking for a Web video hosting solution.

Developer here. If you're talking about "streaming" as live playback from one location to another, we don't do that, but that's a totally different product anyway. If you're talking about "streaming" as auto-buffering, we can definitely do that. It's temporarily disabled on some pages to keep file transfer costs down.

Another developer here. I think you may be referring to an actual Flash streaming server. We're currently using Amazon CloudFront that doesn't support it. We're taking a good look at Limelight and others that do support Flash streaming for the future. Thanks for your feedback.

have a look at 'wowza' for live stuff if you ever go that way.

Yes, that's what I meant. Quicktime streaming, too. Basically providing a way to jump around in a video, even if the video hasn't been been buffered to the point you want to play.

Again, nice looking site and service!

Most people use progressive HTTP. And a lot of CDN's support that now (bitgravity, panther/CDNetworks).

Great looking site, and a neat app.

From the title I expected that the service would push the video to YouTube, Myspace, Vimeo, etc. (i.e. superdistribution), which would be more useful to me. Are there a lot of content producers who don't want their videos to spread?

Congrats on finishing a cool app in 2 days, and best of luck in the competition!

Good suggestions. Definitely worthy of the backlog.

But this is built on top of your zencoder product? So this really wasn't done in 48 hours?

It's actually built on FlixCloud, which is built on Zencoder. http://www.flixcloud.com/

In the Rails Rumble you can build your app using any external services available to everyone. Half the apps were built on the Twitter API.

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