Ok I been Googling for a while now, and i can’t seem to find a good tutorial on how to connect to an Amazon S3 account from my hosting server. If anyones knows of a good step by step tutorial please post url.
Here’s a little bit more info on what im trying to accomplish. im using Vidiscript which is a YouTube clone I want to save on disk space and bandwidth by uploading all videos to an amazon S3 account and i also needed away to mass upload since vidiscript doesn’t offer a free way to upload more that one video at a time. I wanted to create a cron job that checks for newly upload videos and adds info to database. but I still have to come up with a way to create a preview thumbnail for videos so I might have to upload to hosting then create thumbnails then upload to amazon S3 account then delete files from hosting.
But either way I need to connect to my amazon S3 account from hosting server.
I will be streaming all videos using flowplayer’s pseudostreaming plugin.
any alternative solutions to save on bandwidth and mass upload would also be appreciated.
You can map AWS S3 directory to your local using FUSE. There are several projects to achieve that.