If I’d like to create website where users will be able to upload videos what options do I have for storing and streaming the video files?
One is of course storing it on my website. But I don’t think that’s good option. I will need a lot of storage (to expensive) and streaming will slow down my sever. I think it should be cheaper to store it in some external service. It would also take the load off my server. But I don’t know of any.
Do you any services that may help here? If my website is not commercial and if it becomes commercial. This probably shouldn’t matter but I’m using ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC.
I am currently in a processes of designing a similar functionality for a product I develop.
The design that I came up with is:
To sum this up: User uploads the video(via asp.net) to S3. A service sends the unprocessed video from S3 to zencoder/pandastream for encoding and puts it back to S3 in the encoded formats. From there jplayer will play the files on all the platforms.