Comments on: How to video blog with Amazon S3 Cloudfront and free tools in 5 minutes http://www.troynotes.com/768/how-to-video-blog-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront-and-free-tools-in-5-minutes/ Exposing the seedy underbelly of the internet marketing world + Studying hard, and taking notes so you don't have to. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TroyNotes http://www.troynotes.com/768/how-to-video-blog-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront-and-free-tools-in-5-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 TroyNotes Thu, 27 May 2010 02:57:23 +0000 http://www.troynotes.com/?p=768#comment-1664 Hey Roger, Welcome aboard. What you are after I and some others call a splash image, flow player DOES support it, you just need a jpg/png. Here's the post on how to set one up. http://www.troynotes.com/818/how-to-get-a-splash-image-before-your-video-plus-other-tips/ Hey Roger,

Welcome aboard.

What you are after I and some others call a splash image, flow player DOES support it, you just need a jpg/png. Here’s the post on how to set one up.

http://www.troynotes.com/818/how-to-get-a-splash-image-before-your-video-plus-other-tips/

]]> By: Roger Due http://www.troynotes.com/768/how-to-video-blog-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront-and-free-tools-in-5-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1663 Roger Due Thu, 27 May 2010 02:19:36 +0000 http://www.troynotes.com/?p=768#comment-1663 Troy, Another developer directed me to your site. I will be using Amazon S3 very soon. Please help me understand something. I am looking for a "simple" way to place a video on my WordPress sites whereby the first frame of the video is automatically displayed (just like we all see in IM sites and emails). I don't want the user to have to click on "play" to see this first frame and I don't want the video to auto-play at first. So can flowplayer handle this having to use a starting jpg? Can you please explain to me how? By the way, I just now signed up for your "Insider Club" and see that you have a lot of cool info here. Glad I found you! -- Thanks, Roger Troy,
Another developer directed me to your site. I will be using Amazon S3 very soon. Please help me understand something. I am looking for a “simple” way to place a video on my WordPress sites whereby the first frame of the video is automatically displayed (just like we all see in IM sites and emails). I don’t want the user to have to click on “play” to see this first frame and I don’t want the video to auto-play at first.

So can flowplayer handle this having to use a starting jpg? Can you please explain to me how?

By the way, I just now signed up for your “Insider Club” and see that you have a lot of cool info here. Glad I found you!
– Thanks, Roger

]]> By: TroyNotes http://www.troynotes.com/768/how-to-video-blog-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront-and-free-tools-in-5-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-566 TroyNotes Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:38:09 +0000 http://www.troynotes.com/?p=768#comment-566 Your off to a great day then, I hope you can get it all working quickly! Your off to a great day then, I hope you can get it all working quickly!

]]> By: Eyebee http://www.troynotes.com/768/how-to-video-blog-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront-and-free-tools-in-5-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-553 Eyebee Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:07:44 +0000 http://www.troynotes.com/?p=768#comment-553 I've just, today, signed up for Amazon S3, and I'm reading stuff like this blog post to find ways to make it all work. I've grabbed S3Fox, as I use both Windows and Linux computers, and of course, this firefox plug-in will work on all of them! I’ve just, today, signed up for Amazon S3, and I’m reading stuff like this blog post to find ways to make it all work.

I’ve grabbed S3Fox, as I use both Windows and Linux computers, and of course, this firefox plug-in will work on all of them!

]]> By: TroyNotes http://www.troynotes.com/768/how-to-video-blog-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront-and-free-tools-in-5-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-227 TroyNotes Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:42:05 +0000 http://www.troynotes.com/?p=768#comment-227 Hey Andy, Thanks SO much for the pointers, actually I know there are other clients out there (most are NOT free and I don't want to link to them), the post was focused on getting a video up, not a tour of all the ways possible (as the solutions you mention are platform dependent I couldn't have covered both in 5 minutes in the video). But I'm not on a Mac so wouldn't have found S3hub, good to know as I may buy one soon! As to why S3Fox is so prevalent, I believe it's all Amazon's fault, the videos introducing me to CloudFront mentioned S3Fox and it works well enough, I haven't looked hard for anything free since. CloudBerry seems to have some very powerful features (e.g. scheduling ACL's, retry, remembering upload). I'll definitely give it a try! Hey Andy,

Thanks SO much for the pointers, actually I know there are other clients out there (most are NOT free and I don’t want to link to them), the post was focused on getting a video up, not a tour of all the ways possible (as the solutions you mention are platform dependent I couldn’t have covered both in 5 minutes in the video).

But I’m not on a Mac so wouldn’t have found S3hub, good to know as I may buy one soon!

As to why S3Fox is so prevalent, I believe it’s all Amazon’s fault, the videos introducing me to CloudFront mentioned S3Fox and it works well enough, I haven’t looked hard for anything free since.

CloudBerry seems to have some very powerful features (e.g. scheduling ACL’s, retry, remembering upload). I’ll definitely give it a try!

]]> By: Andy http://www.troynotes.com/768/how-to-video-blog-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront-and-free-tools-in-5-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Andy Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:06:00 +0000 http://www.troynotes.com/?p=768#comment-226 Every Amazon S3 related blog gives you an impression that there is only one Amazon S3 client available – S3 fox. However there are many more freeware clients which are much superior. For instance, S3HUB for Mac (http://s3hub.com) and CloudBerry Explorer for Windows (http://s3explorer.cloudberrylab.com/) . Every Amazon S3 related blog gives you an impression that there is only one Amazon S3 client available – S3 fox. However there are many more freeware clients which are much superior. For instance, S3HUB for Mac (http://s3hub.com) and CloudBerry Explorer for Windows (http://s3explorer.cloudberrylab.com/) .

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