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Blue Droplet Video and Storage API now support RTMP streaming with Amazon CloudFront.

Storage API now supports serving with Amazon CloudFront.

CloudFront is the CDN for Amazon S3. It has 14 edge locations:

• United States - Ashburn, VA; Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Newark, NJ; Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA; St. Louis, MO
• Europe - Amsterdam; Dublin; Frankfurt; London
• Asia - Hong Kong; Tokyo

One of the best sites that uses Blue Droplet Video and Storage API is SharkScopers.

I wrote up a showcase detailing how I helped SharkScope put it together.

I have created a new site called Planet Drupal TV that aggregates Drupal video feeds in a manner similar to how Planet Drupal aggregates Drupal blog posts. Videos can be viewed in-browser or downloaded. There is a "most popular" section that utilizes the fantastic Radioactivity module.

It utilizes my Blue Droplet Video module and its Feed API integration.

I've added all the Drupal video feeds I could find, although it does not work with YouTube feeds as they do not use the enclosure tag. Miro can acquire video from YouTube, so it should be possible in future. Really, blip.tv is much better than YouTube, or you could use Blue Droplet which outputs the source video in the enclosure tag.

OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.15 has been released.

The major new feature of this release is MP4 encoding with H.264 video and AAC audio. These codecs have much higher performance than than the old FLV and MP3. This means you can have the same quality for less bandwidth or higher quality for the same bandwidth.

Demo

MP4 encoding is supported both with FFmpeg transcoding on your own server and with the paid transcoding service we offer at openpackage.biz .

This functionality was sponsored by SharkScopers and vertikal.dk .

OpenPackage Media has just released a new module called OpenPackage YouTube syndication.

This module allows video that is published using OpenPackage Video to be automatically syndicated to the YouTube 'branded garden'.

YouTube is termed a 'branded garden' because it is not possible to view YouTube content without being exposed to the YouTube brand. The term is derived from 'walled garden'.

The Digital Fringe Festival (24 September - 12 October) is a celebration of Digital Art from around the world. Anyone is able to upload a video, audio or still Digital Art work and have it screened on a huge number of screens around Melbourne, Australia and various other locations worldwide.

They used OpenPackage Video to replace a custom media handler to streamline the process of people submitting video works.

The major new feature of OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.8 is integration with Feed Element Mapper (feedapi_mapper).

The development of this functionality was sponsored by Hudson Street Media.

Feed Element Mapper is an add-on module for FeedAPI that maps a feed's elements such as tags or (in this case) videos to taxonomy or CCK fields on your site.

This enables your site to aggregate videos from other sites.

I have set up various video feeds on our site as a demonstration. Click on the 'Feed item' links to view the videos.