Monday, November 7, 2011

Stream your video files via CDN and play them with JW Player

Using AWS CloudFront as CDN

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers several advantages over a plain webserver for streaming video. For example, a CDN will be able to speedily deliver your videos across the country and globe, it will be able to stream your videos instead of a download and it will be able to scale to large numbers of videos and viewers.

This 4 steps are required:
  • Get an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account
  • Upload Your Content to S3
  • Create a CloudFront Distribution
  • Configure Your JW Player:
Running Demo and source code : http://www.leerraum.org/demo/jw-player-and-aws-cloudfront/

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