sftp into your AWS ec2 instance

This steps are required to SFTP into your AWS EC2 instance using FileZilla. Open Site Manager

• Add site
• Host: Ec2 elastic IP
• Port: 22 (will sort by default when you select next option)
• Protocol: SFTP
• Logon Type: Normal
• User: ec2-user

Open Preferences

• SFTP
• Add Key File select your secure key [.pem] from where you saved it

Make sure that the ec2-user has the correct permissions to do the actions you require.

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

Amazon Web Services: Object Expiration to S3 Files

The management of temporary files, logs, media files, etc. at AWS will be easier. Amazon has just added object expiration, which allows developers set up rules for the automated deletion of files stored in S3.

Object Expiration allows the scheduled removal of objects after a defined time period.

Developers can add rules for deleting files with a specific prefix (like logs/ or photos/) and set the expiration period (in days) for objects.

Version-enabled can't have object expiration. For more information, check out the specific S3 developer guide on the AWS Documentation site.

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/

Alfresco 4 on amazon AWS

1. catch your ubuntu at:

http://alestic.com/



2. get alfresco quckstart package at:

http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-ubuntu-qs/


or 1 click installation when following this post:

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/wabson/2011/10/16/alfresco-4-0-in-amazon-ec2/