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If I make an Amazon s3 MP4 resource publically availible and then throw the Html5 Video tag around the resource's URL will it stream? Is it really that simple. There are a lot of "encoding" api's out there such as pandastream and zencoder and I'm not sure exactly what these companies do. Do they just manage bandwidth allocation(upgrading/downgrading stream quality and delivery rate/cross-platform optimization?) Or do encoding services do more then that.
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Video Streaming from S3 using ImageKit URLs With your S3 bucket now attached to ImageKit, you can now access any video file in your bucket via ImageKit. When we open this URL in a browser tab, the browser will stream the video via ImageKit. We can now use this URL in a <video> tag to stream videos on our web page.
Customers use Amazon CloudFront to stream video to viewers across the globe using a wide variety of protocols that are layered on top of HTTP. The Amazon Content Delivery Network (CDN) can be used with AWS Elemental Media Services to implement two different types of video streaming.
Amazon Prime Video uses the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud as the underlying technology for all its services. “AWS gives us the flexibility, elasticity, and reliability we require,” Winston says.
This is Brandon from Zencoder. What you're looking for is probably something like Video JS (videojs.com) for video playback. You can just upload an MP4 to S3 and reference it in a player (or the video tag directly, but that has additional issues). Our service is actually used for transcoding the video itself, not delivery. We actually created Video JS to help our customers (and the web at large) with easy, compatible HTML5 playback. If you have any other questions just ask. Thanks.
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The answer to the first part of your question is, yes, it is really that simple. There is a how-to about it and a working demo at the end of the article that you can see as a proof of concept.
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