| Website | new-bamboo.co.uk |
| Blog | blog.nbwd.co.uk |
| Category | Consumer Web |
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We offer a highly skilled technical team that has been programming with Ruby on Rails since its conception in 2004. We use an agile methodology which is particularly suited for complex projects and is based around objective metrics, stakeholder involvement, feedback, and managed processes.
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| Website | pandastream.com |
| Launch Date | September 16, 2008 |
Panda is an open source solution for video uploading, encoding and streaming that launched on September 16, 2008.
Unlike other video platforms, Panda is not just a service for encoding your videos for the web; Panda handles the whole process. From the upload form to streaming, Panda takes control.
By providing an elegant REST API, Panda makes it completely painless to implement full video uploading, encoding and streaming functionality to your web application in a matter of hours.
Runs in the cloud
Panda run’s completely in the cloud computing environment provided by Amazon’s array of web services. The application runs on a customised EC2 instance with everything pre-installed, including FFmpeg and an plethora of codecs. SimpleDB is used to store all of data for video, encoding, accounts and encoding profiles. Uploaded and encoded video files are then stored on S3. Simple to integrate
Your Panda EC2 instance will provide a simple REST (both YAML and XML formats support) API for listing, creating, editing and deleting videos. When a new video is created on your site the actual file upload takes place in a popup or iframe. Doing so means that the large video file is uploaded directly to your Panda EC2 instance so you don’t have to handle it within your application. The server also is configured to support an upload progress bar so user’s can see the video upload in progress.
Once a video has been uploaded the encoding daemon will pickup the job and encode the video to the encoding profiles you specify. Upon completion Panda will send a notification back to your application to let it know the video has finished encoding and can be watched.
The superb JW FLV Player is used by default, but because you’ve got access to all of the video files you can use any Flash video player out there.
