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Great resource James – thanks. I was going to compare S3 with other options and had it on my list for tomorrow. You’ve just saved me a couple of hours… at least.

Cool!

I was a complete novice the other day and now I have streaming set up the way I want.

My forum has a lot of videos in it and all my sales pages have video on them (or coming).

This was the easiest way for me to get what I needed.

I always enjoy learning what other people think about Amazon Web Services and how they use them. I hope the readers of this blog will want to check out CloudBerry Explorer that helps to manage S3 on Windows . It is a freeware. http://cloudberrylab.com/

Thanks Andy,

Another S3 manager is the Firefox addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247

S3 is a great tool, I don’t think you need EZS3 though, there’s a multitude of free players out there that allow you to put videos on your site pretty easily.

Shelby I looked at free players but many of them require coding and mucking about.

How do they go for security and allowing for full screen mode etc…?

Do you have any recommendations?

(Often I have found that free is very expensive in the longrun. The last thing I want to be doing is mucking around with code).

I just used JW FLV player

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

I think it’s free for non-commercial items, for a commercial licence it’s not that much though.

Basically you just upload your file to S3 change permissions so people can watch it – all done with your ftp client.

Next Upload JW FLV files to your server – you only do this once.

Then you can customize your player here – http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard

Note – Make sure to include a link to your file in S3 and that the video player links are the correct file locations on your site – you may want to direct link to them.

Finally you paste the code in your site that the above link generates.

Not too much hassle and basically free. It also seems to take about as much time as the above service.

I think ezs3 is considerably faster and easier!

Upload,

Create player

One java script code paste to site.

(any site or blog)

Same thing, but in all fairness I haven’t tried EZS3.

1. Upload file – Same as FTP
2. Create Code – Almost the same thing minus the cool visual interface
3. Paste Code – same thing

Of course the first comment is how to setup everything so it sounds longer, but admittedly if you were doing hundreds of these a month it would make more sense to have a program to manage them.

IMHO

True – I am uploading to hundreds of different sites and using multiple formats – MPG4, flv, swf, avi, pdf, MP3 so the easy to use player interface is a MUST

Hey James,

Thanks for the recommendation – I found EZS3 to be very easy to use and can see how it could become addictive. Got my first video up and running very easily. Ties in nicely with the page creator tools too!

Gotta go find some offline clients to fund my addictions now…

Steve

Doh! I put the wrong site URL in to show off my wonderful video skills.

Reckon Russell Crowe’s got anything to worry about?

Steve

“Reckon Russell Crowe’s got anything to worry about?”

…having met him and done business with him I am sure he has plenty to worry about…. in contrast, you are nothing like him so you have nothing to worry about. For example you can play decent music……. (G’Day Russ )

What is your opinion of viddler.com? It’s free with no ads.
Cheers,
Gail

Viddler looks pretty good. If I wanted free hosting with no ads then that looks like the best way to go.

I want control of my content now in case they change later.
(for example brightcove told people to remove the free stuff with short notice).

OK. I see where you’re coming from. Thanks James!
Gail

Very nice information. I have been looking for a video hosting service so this article is extremely helpful to me. I’ll give it a go!

Thanx James, Just the info I was looking for. Direct and simple. Keep it up.

Thanks James, read this post a few times while comparing options. I completely missed the EZs3 part until I watched the movie. Signing up right now… CHeers!

Thanks George!

It is an excellent service.

Hey James

Thanks for the write-up

We have been busy re-investing and developing our services… setting up the Cloudfront for all our users and making it easy to roll-out for their accounts and players, upgrading and expanding on our servers etc

These were all key improvements to allow us to roll-out the Premium Video Marketing services that we’ve been working on behind the scenes

The first one is codenamed: underlay

It’s what happens when the video finishes.. instead of seeing a blank video frame.. you can now show something else….

It allows you to automatically re-direct the video (think affiliate marketing – do a video review and then re-direct to the site, cart item, eBay auction or whatever)

It also allows you to put a script there (think Landing Pages / Squeeze Pages and Opt-in Forms… the video finishes.. and the form to join your list appears! )

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I have more in the pipeline….

(Let me know if you would like to beta test the underlay)

TomC

Tom I would definitely be ready to use that service. I’m loving your product since I use it almost every day now for my private membership site!

Can IP address of server be used instead of url to limit where the file is viewable from?

The embeded call references the file by a number – file name would be better.

Excellent review and how-to video thanks James. As a non-techie it made setting all of it up very straight-forward, which was a relief as the Amazon side of things seems to be tailored towards fully fledged geeks.

How does this EZS3 compare to using Amazon Cloudfront? I don’t think Cloudfront was an option at the time that you wrote this article.

http://www.reelseo.com/amazon-cloudfront-streaming/

@Shaun I use cloudfront with EZS3.

Just get an account and tick that box and it streams from there….