I've been playing with lots of great stuff over the last few weeks, one of these web2 sites that caught my eye is streamincloud. streamincloud.com is a free FLV encoder for Amazon S3 and CloudFront. We'll monitor your bucket for new video files and encode them in the popular Flash FLV video format. Neat.
I have had a few problems getting the thing to work as both s3fox & transmit - failed to allow me to set the ACL - the user rights that you need to set on the bucket before they can access the bucket to check it for videos. Switching over to my windows based acer aspire one windows machine thou allowed me to download cloudberry explorer which after a bit of tinkering worked perfectly.
What was not really clear was that you have to allow permission of the read and write status for the actually ACL settings as well. I've given read and write + ACL settings read & write and that seemed to fix it up on the streamincloud admin part you have to set for which bucket to watch. I'm currently setting up cloudfront (cloudberry handles distributions as well) for me.dm to see how that works out. You can follow @cloudberryman and @streamincloud on twitter.
I'm hoping that streamincloud will bring us mp4/h264 iphone encodes as well in the future - it will sure help out piping our video conversions to the cloud from rezpondr/eventca.st and i hope to work closely with streamincloud later on once we have done some initial testing of the service. Looking good so far - one less thing to be concerned about! :)
