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Panda, YouTube in scatola | 0.2 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:30:21 +0000

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links for 2008-09-20 « Tom Altman’s Wedia Conversation — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:01:57 +0000

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By: VideoRetailer.org - Exploring the Intersection of Video and e-Commerce. » Blog Archive » Panda launches an open source video platform

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:26:04 +0000

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By: elcanchoso

elcanchoso — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:38:22 +0000

The problem with server side encoding is that you always have to deal with a queue and how to manage it. The main issues are cost, bandwidth, scalability and error handling.
My company Framecaster (www.framecaster.com) is launching a distributed encoding and aggregation model for UGC that eliminates the need for a transcoding server or cluster. All the encoding happens at the submitting computer through a web plugin (IE or Firefox) to your specs (the aggregator)
It is an equally attractive model for start ups with unknown levels of video submissions or for companies that have extremely high volumes and are looking to fix their cost.
Check it out http://www.fram...howitworks.html

By: Jonathan Dahl

Jonathan Dahl — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:59:14 +0000

Right – it isn’t that encoding.com needs to be low volume, it’s that people looking for low volume often want something like encoding.com.

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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:57:31 +0000

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ironyjk's me2DAY — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:54:54 +0000

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links for 2008-9-17 « Ferrar — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:50:56 +0000

[...] Panda: Open Source Video Platform For Websites [Techcrunch] Panda, an open source project, will let any site owner willing to do a little coding and integration work to allow user video uploads and playback. Think YouTube in a box. (tags: video opensource panda) [...]

By: farzal

farzal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:36:17 +0000

What would it take for this service to use MOSSO as a cloud instead of Amazon mix of ec2, s3 and simpleDB?

Why should this not be hosted on Mosso? Their media accelerator (http://help.mos...icle.php?id=250) promises better performance, and pricing+setup of MOSSO is a lot easier and attractive – increment CPU cycle purchase & free incoming bandwidth

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Medianeurone’s » Blog Archive » links for 2008-09-16 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:01:51 +0000

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By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:48:37 +0000

I’ve been posting on TC for about three years, and this is the first time I’ve ever been accused (as you accused me in a previous comment) of being an employee of anything.

It’s pretty funny, but you might want to adjust that tinfoil hat of yours Frank.

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:44:06 +0000

@Frank,

Settle down there bub. It’s 20 Pound sterling (or Euro?) for a site license which seems very reasonable. The only reason I didn’t put the price in my post is because I have no idea how to create a pound symbol on my keyboard.

By the way, it took me about 18 seconds to find this info with Google. Maybe you should learn how to use it, then next time you don’t have to write douchebag remarks because someone didn’t go fetch you the information you wanted.

Jerk.

By: Arthur Meyerovich

Arthur Meyerovich — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:20:18 +0000

what about encoding.com is low volume? I guess I am part of the encoding.com crowd as we process over 2000 H.264 videos a day with them.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:35:07 +0000

@Frank see http://www.jero...nsing_questions

A single site license is €20.

By: Damien Tanner

Damien Tanner — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:58:07 +0000

Apologies for any confusion. It certainly is MIT. There is a more explicit license in the main repository now.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » オープンソースで動画プラットフォームを構築できるPanda — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:41:26 +0000

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By: Jonathan Dahl

Jonathan Dahl — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:31:21 +0000

Panda looks like a nice product that meets a need. In discussions with customers and potential customers at Zencoder (where I’m a partner), people who are looking for a video transcoding platform generally fall into three camps:

1- People who want something simple, cheap, and low-volume (the encoding.com crowd, though there may be another entrant into this market soon).

2- Companies who tried to build a transcoder in-house, but realized after a few months that it’s a much harder problem than they thought.

3- Companies who don’t want to worry about transcoding at all, and want to completely outsource this infrastructure to the safest option.

Panda seems a great fit for option 2, and sometimes a fit for 1 and 3 as well, though 1 may not want to run a transcoding infrastructure, and 3 may want a tech support staff they can rely on.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:22:01 +0000

Oh, so the commercial license costs are @#$% per year?

Thanks for the info! Really helpful!

By: eas

eas — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:21:22 +0000

A lot of people use S3 for storing high volume content, but cache and serve popular content off their own servers for just the reason you mention.

By: eas

eas — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:18:53 +0000

This looks cool if it handles the EC2 instance management automatically, but is it really open source? I ask, because I couldn’t find any license. No license != open source. Visible source code != open source.

One might guess that it is MIT licensed, since that seems popular in the Rails/Merb community, but one can’t safely make assumptions about such things.

By: Todd Cochrane

Todd Cochrane — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:06:23 +0000

My team spent a week building this type of integration into out RawVoice Generator Platform and our users love it. Will be interesting to look at the code and see how they did their implementation.

By: Damien Tanner

Damien Tanner — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:06:01 +0000

You can use any Flash video player you like with Panda. The JW FLV Media Player just happens to be by far the best one out there!

By: Wayne lambright

Wayne lambright — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:04:49 +0000

What I meant by 10mbps is that I’m consuming that much bandwidth, which is about 3000 GB of transfer. Based on the Amazon pricing it would cost three times more for the same bandwidth.

By: Damien Tanner

Damien Tanner — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:03:50 +0000

Indeed. You can easily start making use of a proxy or CDN as your demands grow.