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I understand my question may be in the realm of paid support. I’m happy to do that should I need to for the next step. But I was hoping you could give me one piece of advice to help me proceed and decide if I need paid support.
My website sells mp3 downloads. I am using your software to provide “demo” tracks so the user can listen before he purchases. I am successful currently at setting up the AWS S3 with Cloudfront. But now I need to setup a stream.
Following your tutorial for HLS on AWS, it appears that each mp3 file needs to be individually queued into a “job” within a “pipeline.” This is not practical or possible as I need to serve up about 68,000 files.
Now, I pretty clever… but I just can’t seem to find my way at this point to understand the best solution and path to setup the streaming for these files.
Can you please give me advice?!?!?
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Hi Valerie,
The Elastic Transcoder is made to work manually for a single file only, since every file in AWS has a unique URI. You can however create a trigger function with AWS Lambda, that will for instance automatically create a new transcoding job with preset parameters for every file uploaded to a bucket of your choice and stores the output m3u8 playlist into another bucket.
We haven’t deployed such solution yet ourselves, so we don’t have any documentation about it. There are a couple of guides that I found that might help you with this:
- Easy Video Transcoding in AWS
- Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon S3
- Automate transcoding files by AWS Lambda
- Using AWS Lambda for Web Video Transcoding
- AWS HLS Transcoding with Lambda function
As you can see, this requires some level of programming skill. We havent done this yet, but our programmers could implement this solution for you for a price, if you are interested.
Other solution for you (that is in my opinion easier and more secure) is to bulk split your mp3 files to create short excerpts (for instance 30 seconds), that you could host directly from S3. These could be downloaded easily, but that wouldn’t matter, since they wouldn’t be full songs. There are couple of programs that should be able to split a batch of files, for instance this one (although I haven’t tested it personally).
I hope that this will help you.
Thanks,
Eduard
