Highlights
- Add scalability and increase performance by storing content and streaming it from multiple servers.
- The system supports VPS/FTP servers and Amazon S3/CloudFront.
- Transcoding occurs on the main server only. Secondary servers are used for storage and streaming only.
- Content is copied (or moved) to secondary servers, based on a prioritized queued rotation system.
- Additional servers do not require having any transcoding tools installed.
Details
- Define unlimited servers, easy management of available servers.
- Support for RTMP streaming, lighttpd/pseudostreaming, or progressive download streaming.
- Support for CloudFront signed URL’s, custom canned policy, secure/private streaming.
- Set up Amazon S3 buckets, public or private access, set up CloudFront web and streaming distributions.
- Ability to specify what type of media to store on each server.
- Can store mixed file types on same server, can store one file type per server, or any other possible combination.
- Configure server priorities and server file limits. Files will be transferred to servers with highest priority first.
- Set up custom transfers (in case you want certain files uploaded to certain servers).
- Test server connectivity, see list of server uploaded files.
- Detailed information about each transfer, including transfer state (idle, in progress, completed) and transfer durations (start time, end time).
- Log for each transfer available, with quick and easy access to all transfer logs.
- Support for searching in existing transfers.
- Deleting a transfer will also delete files uploaded to that server.
- After being transferred, local files can be automatically deleted or renamed.
- Pause/Resume mode for transfers (but not while transfer is in progress).
Setup Example
- One server for all thumbnails (video, image, audio, doc)
- Amazon S3 bucket with public permissions
- CloudFront Web distribution
- Without signed URL’s, no expiration time
- One streaming server for video and/or audio
- Amazon S3 bucket with private permissions
- CloudFront RTMP distribution (Flash only support) OR CloudFront Web distribution (HTML5 support)
- With signed URL’s, expiring every 10 minutes
- One media server for images and/or documents
- Amazon S3 bucket with private permissions
- CloudFront Web distribution
- With signed URL’s, expiring in 10 minutes