Using AWS MediaConvert with FolioVision

Hi Hoshang,

To use AWS MediaConvert you need to set-up S3 and Cloudfront first. MediaConvert only converts your videos to encrypted HLS, but you still need S3 to store those files and CloudFront to distribute those files.

Here are links for S3 Guide and here for Cloudfront Guide.

Those are really helpful in-depth step-by-step guides but since the whole AWS set-up is really time consuming process with a lot of small things that people can possibly miss we offer our clients the AWS Expert-set up service. We’re able to configure the services exactly for your needs. Live, within few hours with detailed end-user manual on how to use them.

Thanks,
Juraj

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Juraj Kacaba.

Hi Hoshang,

Actually, you need to use CloudFront.

As the guide says in step 21. “Make sure you are using a CloudFront distribution with your S3 bucket”.
The guide is long and it’s easy to overlook this, so we might tweak the guide in the future, thanks for the feedback.

For the HLS decryption key:
You can use the generator in our documentation to generate the key(step 16) and then set the key into MediaConvert DRM encryption settings as the guide says.

The AWS decoder is not related to MediaConvert, it’s part of the older AWS service called ElasticTranscoder.

Thanks,
Juraj

Hi Hoshang,

Sorry for the misunderstanding on my side, you are right.

You don’t particularly need CloudFront to use MediaConvert encrypted HLS, but it solves the problem with file permissions you would need to fix in the case you don’t want to use CloudFront.

Although MediaConvert does work without CloudFront. We recommend using them together because as I said earlier, it fixes the problem with permissions and makes stream much faster all around the globe.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback! We’ve decided to make changes in the documentation based on your experience. Also, if you have any other questions feel free to ask.

Thanks,
Juraj

Hi Hoshang,

No, you don’t need to fill any of the AWS Decoder settings. Our shortcode editor is responsive, so you need to fill the “Video” field first with an HLS URL ending with .m3u8 and than the “Encryption key” field appears at the very bottom. There you can insert the encryption key generated with our generator in that documentation page you’ve mentioned.

It’s basically the same as with the documentation I mentioned in my previous response. Based on your experience, we’ve decided to make significant changes in the way our shortcode editor works in the case users are trying to embed HLS stream. We are also preparing an announcement for those changes on our Weblog, it should be released next week. So you can check it regularly if you want to be in touch with all of our new improvements.

Thanks,
Juraj

Hi Hoshang,

In that case, could you please open your browser JavaScript console (here’s how: link ) and then insert the HLS URL into the “Video” field and see if you get some error?

By that, I’ve meant that we’ve done changes in documentation and in shortcode editor for the next FV Player update.

Thanks,
Juraj

Hi Hoshang,

I’ve forwarded your issue to our main programmer Martin, he will contact you in a close future with further information.

Thanks for the patience,
Juraj

Hi Hoshang,

Yes, you need to have CORS headers enabled for the bucket where you want to store your .m3u8 files for the HLS and also you need to set up the headers for your server.

To do this follow step-by-step the guide Martin sent to you earlier.

1. You need to add those headers to your server response, there’s link a in that guide right under the header with a detailed guide. (you can actually see this link the screenshot)

2. You need to copy and insert that XML code into the bucket properties, it’s in-depth explained later in the guide

As we said earlier, it would be super time-consuming for all of us to explain everything to you step by step via this Forum. Please consider buying our MediaConvert HLS expert set-up. We are able to configure and properly test everything for you within a few hours.

Thanks,
Juraj