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Hello;
You have set up the player for me on WordPress.
What are my options for Codeigniter?
Would you set it up?
How much does it cost?
You have already set up my Cloudfront Amazon etc.
Can you please tell me the details?
Thank you
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Hi Seyed,
What is it you are trying to do with CodeIgniter?
I’d recommend you go for Vimeo. It’s a much simpler solution (and just $200/year for unlimited videos, unlimited encoding and unlimited views).
Making the web work for you, Alec
Hi;
On your home page you say “Why a video player at all and not YouTube or Vimeo?”. Maybe I am not understanding you.
Alec I tell you what I want hopefully you can tell me what’s the best choice.
I have a membership website that members who pay can watch videos.
I thought S3 and cloud front with Foliovisoin pro player is the best choice. I paid $70 + $150 so far but things didn’t work out. I haven’t been successful to have the videos without delay or some other issues that I notified you.
About Vimeo:
Is Vimeo secure? Where am I going to save my files? How is the player? Is it reliable?
With CodeIgniter I can set the simple membership website but I need video player to play the files from s3 Cloudfront. Martin said few days ago he can set it up but he didn’t mention a price or time line.
Can you please let me know (or speak to Martin about it) and see if you can provide a reliable player for a Codeigniter site?
Thanks Alec
Hi Seyed,
CodeIgniter is a whole new web framework in place of WordPress. It means starting from scratch.
Vimeo is secure but less secure than Cloudfront RTMP (somebody who is a member would be able to pirate the videos, but that’s true of any system: screen recording is very easy on any platform). I’d be less worried about some piracy and more worried about putting into a place a system you can reliably run so you can focus on building your business.
Our support for Vimeo Pro is free. There’s quite a bit of documentation up on our site already: https://foliovision.com/player/how-to-use-vimeo-pro
I feel badly that Amazon Cloudfront is not working the way you want it to, so I’m happy to offer you a free pro support incident for Vimeo set up.
Making the web work for you, Alec
Thank you Alec that’s very nice of you :)
I have a few more questions I appreciate if you help:
1 – One of the benefits of cloud front and S3 is their server locations and speed regardless of visitors location. Will Vimeo be fast as cloudfront? This is CDN right? or just hosting?
2 – What do you mean by Pirated?
3 – Will I be paying $48 a year?
4 – Are there gonna be advertisement like YouTube? I don’t want the users to click on ads and leave my site.
5 – Do you mean the links can be shared?Thank you Alec
Hi Seyed,
I’ll answer your questions.
1. Vimeo is pretty fast around the world, although there are some regions where people complain (I’m not sure which ones).
2. Someone who has access can download the file for a short period of time (twenty minutes).
3. No for commercial video, you have to pay $200/year but that includes encoding, hosting the whole works.
4. No advertising.
5. No, links cannot be shared. They expire.Making the web work for you, Alec
I’ve clarified on speed: Vimeo uses Akamai CDN, which is faster than CloudFront.
Hello Alec
Thank you it looks good. I’m glad it’s even faster. There is only 1 last thing :)
Would it be possible to set it up using simple Php website and not through WordPress?
For example you give me a config.php and I hand code the rest?
If not, can you provide any solutions that I won’t have to use WordPress?
Thank you Alec
Hi Seyed,
Our code won’t work without WordPress unfortunately. It would be a very big project to move our full technology to work standalone.
We could help you build a WordPress membership site though which is really low hassle.
Cordial regards,
Alec
Hey man
Thanks I have already set up the site with membership and everything in word
Ress :)
It’s just very slow sometimes from some locations for example yiur country. I have added cache plugin and speed tests show good ranking for the site! It’s under http://www.breakupprogram.com
I thought if I use standalone site without WordPress, then I don’t have to load all the unneccessary js files that the site cutrremtly loads.In that case would you please set up Vimeo for me? I really appreciate yiur help.
Thank you AlecHello Alec;
When do you think you can finish setting up Vimeo?
Thanks
Hi Seyed,
We can set Vimeo up for you on Monday if you sign up for a Pro account (you need the $200/year version, not the plus $48/year version – you can try Plus but as soon as Vimeo catch you, they will either delete your videos or more likely disable them until you upgrade to Pro to match their terms for commercial video). To us Plus, you have to be creating art videos (films, documentaries, music videos).
So please sign up for Pro and upload all your originals in original resolution (export from Adobe CC in same format as original or in another 720p format with dual pass and VBR) and you will be good to go.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks! Alec
Hi Alec;
Tonight I am going to give Cloud Front a last shot before switching to Vimeo :)
Would you please confirm this is the best export setting for Cloud Front based on the original video I sent you on the other thread?
1280 x 720
Format: H.264
Frame rate: 25
Target Bitrate:2Mbps
Maximum Bitrate:2Mbps
profile: baseline
Level:4.1
VBR2Thank you Alec
Hi Seyed
As Martin mentioned you should be using Level 3.0 for maximum compatibility. You could probably set your maximum bitrate to 3 Mbps.
These settings are only for self-hosted on Cloudfront. If you are uploading to Vimeo, they’d prefer to have a much less compressed file: https://vimeo.com/help/compression
What Vimeo wants is NOT what you should be uploading for direct playback by your clients. Vimeo wants low compressed files so that they can do the compression themselves.
Cheers, Alec
PS. Save yourself the pain and use Vimeo, Seyed, while you are growing your business.
Ok Alec let’s do that. I do Vimeo like you say. I hope the files are secure there I really don’t want my files to be abused you know?
Would you please tell me how set these so they are perfect for Vimeo?
Resolution:? (I assume 1280×720 but it will be noise with “level” 3 or 3.1)
Format: H.264
Frame rate: 25
Target Bitrate:3Mbps
Maximum Bitrate:3Mbps
profile: ?
Level:?
VBR2Thanks Alec;
Please let me know about this. I am signing for a Pro account with Vimeo.
