Encoding video with encoding.com

Encoding can be a hard job. Why not outsource it? Encoding.com takes your video, encodes it and sends it back to you. For small consumers and testing purposes there is a free package available. 

There are different methods to send your video. 

Desktop Application — An Adobe Air application available on both Windows and OSX platforms enables complete upload and management of your encoding projects directly from your desktop. 

Web Interface — The client interface has a section entitled Add Media. This tool will allow you to quickly and easily encode individual videos in to one or more formats through your browser (via upload from hard drive, FTP, SFTP, S3, CloudFiles).

Watch Folder — Also in the client interface, the Watch Folder allows you to specify an FTP/SFTP/S3/CloudFiles directory for encoding.com to "watch" at any frequency for new videos. After each watch interval all new videos added to this folder will be processed using the encoding setting you selected. You can have as many watch folders as you like, making it possible to encode a large video library with little or no setup or integration work. Please see our collection of articles about the Watch Folder for more details. 

XML API is the most flexible method. Custom file naming, multiple output formats and real time encoding status updates are important features available via our API. 

Uploading the file via web interface

Drag and drop uploading via the Desktop Application

After uploading your video you can start encoding.
Basic encoding settings are Audio Codec, Bitrate, Destination Locations, File Size, Framerate, Notifications, Output Type, Source Video Locations and Thumbnails.

Choose your encoding task

Task overview

When the task is finished encoding.com sends the file to the  Network of choice: S3, CloudFiles, FTP, or most commonly, directly to your Content Delivery ce (Akamai, EdgeCast, Highwinds, CloudFront, Level 3, Limelight, CDNetworks, NetDNA, etc.) or you can download it manually.

Possible Third Party integrations are:

Amazon S3 Cloud Storage, CMS Systems (Drupal, etc.), Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Flash Players, Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Platforms can be linked to encoding.com.

Link to encoding.com

Startup Script Red5 working with ubuntu 11.x

You may  wish have red5 started at boot.
This script should help you.
It is assumed that your red5 script is located at /usr/share/red5:

cd /etc/init.d/
touch red5
chmod 755 red5
vi red5

Paste below code
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/red5
#
# Check for missing file
RED5_DIR=/usr/share/red5
test -x $RED5_DIR/red5.sh || exit 5

case "$1" in
   start)
      echo -n "Starting Red5 Service"
      echo -n " "
      cd $RED5_DIR
      su -s /bin/bash -c "$RED5_DIR/red5.sh &" red5
      sleep 2
       ;;
   stop)
       echo -n "Shutting down red5"
       echo -n " "
       su -s /bin/bash -c "killall -q -u red5 java" red5
       sleep 2
       ;;
   restart)
       ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
       ## running or not, start it again.
       $0 stop
       $0 start
       ;;
 esac

then you maybe need

useradd red5

and use like
service red5 start
service red5 stop
service red5 restart

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/