At Panda we just switched our CDN from CloudFront to AppEngine to be able to support SSL on our cdn.pandastream.com domain. It means that for the uploader script can use the new URL:
<script src="//cdn.pandastream.com/u/1.4/jquery.panda-uploader.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
(more…)Hi developers!
I have just released yet another Open-Source project. This was gracefully sponsored by PandaStream, so I thought I might as well post here. Let me introduce you to socketmaster.
In the tradition of UNIX, socketmaster does just one thing but does it well; it helps your app to restart without losing or refusing a single connection. socketmaster is the gatekeeper, keeping your sockets warm under the fire of restarts (christmas starts sooner every year isn’t it ? ho ho ho!).
To port your app to socketmaster you just need to do two things:
At Panda, we have some truly great customers and are always interested to see how they’re integrating Panda with their apps and sites.
Artplayer is a unique online video platform aiming to showcase the best video content from the UK arts industry. In addition to a desktop and mobile web presence, Artplayer offers mobile apps, exclusive editorial content, access to major UK Arts organisations and a range of video services including production and training.
We’re excited to officially announce that PandaStream has been acquired by MediaCore. Delivering the best online video experience has always been important to us and joining the amazing team at MediaCore will allow us to continue to pursue this goal with greater resources and a secure future.
Today we want to talk about a code update we have made on Panda, taking advantage of the Pusher web hooksreleased a few days ago.
This is a fantastic feature for us as it has considerably reduced the number of api calls made to Pusher, saving us bandwidth and money.
One of the great features of Panda is it’s real time dashboard. Panda can display the new encoding jobs, their progress, and your stats instantly with no effort. Thanks to Pusher, implementing this was really easy.
At such a scale the right design for your software is to separate your app into smaller apps, small apis and workers. In our case, the encoding dashboard is completely separated from the api but they share the same Pusher app. When an event occurs on Panda (like a job progress), the api triggers a Pusher Event and the web app reflect that change immediately.
Friday we realeased a feature that we called Stacks. A stack is an encoding environment including a set of encoding tools and commands. This feature will provide us a way to upgrade ffmpeg without breaking your encoding commands.
The current stack, called 'corepack-1' is still the one used by default. The new stack we are introducing is called 'corepack-2' and brings speed plus lots of new formats and codecs.
If you are using some advanced profiles, you should consider:
Today we have deployed some very interesting improvements on our platform. Let’s review them all.
Many of you have requested a way to store video inside folders instead of having everything in the root of your bucket. We think we found a nice solution to solve this problem.
When you upload a video there is now a new optional attribute called path_format. It enables you to specify destination and name of a video and it’s encodings.
It’s time we break the silence !
Since the last post, your host has arrived on the team. I am excited to bring my experience in Video, Linux, and Web development that I gained during the last years at STVS, another amazing company. But for now, let me tell you of the latest updates on the PandaStream platform.
After our ruby 1.9 migration, the average page response got divided by two, down to around 350ms. Missing, is the /cloud page that still takes around 1 second to load so that is something we are going to work on next.
For the Heroku customers ; you can now access to a specialized version of our interface by logging into Heroku and choosing the Panda Stream Add-on. This can be handy if you want to follow visually the progress of your encoding and get real-time notifications. You can also access it by typing the following command in your console. Enjoy !
$ heroku addons:open pandastream --app your_app_name
We’ve just released a beta version of the new gem for Panda. The gem has an improved interface for accessing the Panda API and makes it much easier to find the right encodings for embedding.
To find the url of an encoding it’s now as simple as this:
video = Panda::Video.find("1234")
mp4_encoding = video.encodings.find_by_profile_name("h264")
mp4_encoding.url
=> "http://s3.amazonaws.com/my_panda_bucket/4567.mp4"
Read the docs and download the branch from Github and let us know what you think!
Once it’s out of beta we will make this the default version (the old Panda style of using API urls still works) and also update the Rails docs.