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• Architecture of video-based service for mobile phones

  27 juin 2015, par David Azar

  I guess this is more of a conceptual question than a technical one.

  I’m trying to figure out the best way to upload short videos to a server and also be able to download them and watch them on both Android and iOS.

  Lets focus on Android for the moment.

  I’ve done some experiments, and my results have been :

  • I’m able to compress 12-14MB video down to 500KB using FFMPEG lib with pretty good results in quality, but it takes about 12 seconds.

  • Next, im uploading those videos to my Parse backend as ParseFile to store them.

  • Finally, i can download them and watch them with no problem using a VideoView widget.

  Now, for the tests i’ve been running, these are great results. But i want to see if there is a better way to manage and scale all of this.

  My questions are :

  • Is there a better, lighter way to compress video ?

  • Is Parse the right way to go ?

  • How can i stream videos instead of downloading them and storing the on local storage before playing them ? i know this will cause my app to use significant space on disk and i dont want that.

  • How do big companies do this kind of tasks ?

  I’ve heard Amazon S3 is a cool thing for projects like this one, also Google Cloud Platform. I want to understand the best approach before building everything so i can do it the right way and also, provide the absolute best user experience for watching these videos.

• Encoding videos locally or through a third party ?

  7 septembre 2015, par JordanDevelop

  We’re in the process on building a view uploading and sharing community right now and we’re currently developing with idea of using a third-party like Zencoder, but what makes Zencoder a better option ?

  I’m sorry if i butcher up what is involved with supporting a local encoding system, so I’ll try to be vague. We plan on releasing with AWS, so why not setup an instance running ffmpeg ? I understand it’s a lot more then simply that, but if is it that difficult to find someone who can put together an instance for encoding ?

  Am I right to assume most third party encoding services seem very unrealistic, price wise, for a web application who specifically focus on encoding large amounts of media ? I did notice Amazon offers an encoding features and would definitely feel more comfortable using them, but even that seems seems redundant.

  I completely understand the cost behind encoding is very real, but I just can’t understand why third-party encoders are so widely accepted.

• Rails Thumbnails for videos being uploaded to S3

  20 octobre 2015, par Dani

  I have a rails application where I need to upload videos to an amazon s3 bucket alongwith their thumbnails. I am using ffmpeg to generate thumbnails and I am using carrierwave to handle video uploads. Here is my video uploader class

   class VideoUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  
    include CarrierWave::Video
  
    storage :fog
  
    def store_dir
  
       "uploads/#{model.class.to_s.underscore}/#{mounted_as}/#{model.id}"
  
    end
  
    def extension_white_list
  
      %w(mp4 flv)
  
    end
  
  end

  The video uploads fine and the column for video url is set in videos table but I want to generate thumbnail and upload it as well. I know I have to use ffmpeg here but don’t exactly know how to do it.

  Any help will be appreciated.