During SandCAMP 2010, I held a session on Drupal Integration with Amazon S3 & Cloudfront, you can download the session slides too. As I was preparing for this session, Amazon had announced that Cloud Front was able to support streaming video and audio, but I didn't have enough time to put a demo together until now.

I created a Cloud Front demo video repairing my son's 5th Generation iPod Video, replacing the screen and headphone jack. This video was created using a Logitech® Webcam Pro 9000 into a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Cheese recording software was used to record this 44 minute, 441MB video. The video is 1600x1000 OGG video at 5 frames per second using the Theora codec. The audio is in mono with the Vorbis codec sampled at 44100hz with a bitrate of 80kbps.

The demo video was tested under Firefox 3.5.8 on the same laptop that was used for the recording, and it worked just fine. Same with Opera 10. IE wanted to download the video, so there maybe some other codecs that need to be installed in order to view the OGG video format streamed. Should work fine under Mac OSX too, but I have no way to test. Doesn't work on iTouch using Safari though.

What makes integrating Drupal with Cloud Front is that you can have your own private, unlimited video and audio content delivery network. This allows ultimate flexibility, no limits on the size or length of your video, choose your own video format, zero alteration of your video like what happens with the major video websites. With pay as you go, Cloud Front can really make your Drupal site shine.

The video was created simply as a demo of Cloud Front. If you decide to try to repair your own iPod - you do so entirely at your own risk! Please don't email me if you blow things up!!

I'm very interested in Cloud Front performance, please leave a comment on your experience with Cloud Front streaming.

-- Mark