How to Configure your Amazon S3 bucket for use with streamincloud.com with CloudBerry Explorer

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer latest version 1.3. You can download it for free at http://cloudberrylab.com/

What is streamincloud.com

Streamincloud.com is a free FLV encoder for Amazon S3 and CloudFront. It will monitor your bucket for new video files and encode them in the popular Flash FLV video format.  

If you don’t have StreamInCloud.com account yet, we highly recommend give it a try – sign-up for free at the website http://www.streamincloud.com/

What do you need to make it work

1. You have to sign-up for a free account at streamincloud.com and specify the bucket you want to use to convert video files.
   
2. Then you have to give streamincloud.com account read/write permissions on that bucket containing one or more video files.
   
3. Streamincloud.com will convert your videos to Flash FLV, the most popular streaming video format and used by sites like YouTube.
   
4. Streamincloud.com will create a Folder called FLV and put converted files there.
   
5. They'll continue monitoring your bucket for new video files to encode.
   

How CloudBerry Explorer can help you

CloudBerry Explorer made it very easy to configure your bucket for streamincloud.com. We have included streamincloud.com account in the list of default account in CloudBerry Explorer ACL editor.

Granting streamincloud account read/write access to the bucket

Now grant streamincloud account Read/Write access to the bucket as shown on the picture.   To do that just check off appropriate checkboxes as shown on the picture.

 Propagating ACL to all objects in the bucket

There is one final step to make streamincloud.com work. You have to propagate ACL list to all the files in the bucket and CloudBerry Explorer comes handy again.  Make sure that “Apply for all subfolders and files” checkbox is on and click ok button. This will effectively apply permissions to all files in the bucket, assuming you want to convert all files.

Now you are ready to go – streamincloud.com will automatically pickup all video files in your bucket and convert them for you for free. Sounds unrealistic – give it a try! ;-)

Should I apply ACL every time I copy a new video to the bucket?

 

This is a reasonable question and the answer is no if you use CloudBerry Explorer to copy files. CloudBerry Explorer will automatically apply bucket ACL to new files copied into it. There is a global option that controls this behavior and by default it is on. But we recommend checking it out.  Go to tools->options in the main menu and click to “Copy/Move” tab. Now make sure “Inherit permissions for all objects” is selected.

Final notes

We will keep adding other features that will make it easier for Amazon S3 users to exploit the power of streamincloud.com and other services. Stay tuned!  

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You can download the new version of CloudBerry Explorer for free at http://cloudberrylab.com/

You can sign-up for streamincloud.com service at http://streamincloud.com/

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