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How to stream FLV video from Amazon S3

We often confront with situation where we need to display a flash demo or video to our intended audience. Using S3 services of Amazon, it becomes like a cake walk. Here are steps you can follow to display such animated files on your web page(s) using your Bucket Explorer account. Here we have unveiled steps for you. Take a look.
  1. Launch Bucket Explorer, login and move to ready state.
  2. Open or create Bucket as usual.
  3. Explore file system from left tree menu and select the swf or flv file you wish to publish over web.
  4. Upload the file(s) as usual to the bucket (bucket/folder) as usual.
  5. Set read permission to all users.
  6. Generate public URL, (This will be used soon.)
  7. If you're familiar with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage, then it's easy to just use the Insert menu to insert a Flash object, and then select your SWF file from its location on your hard drive; the HTML editor will write the code for you, and all you need to do is edit the path of the file to reflect the location on your web server.
  8. If you are using coding method, use codes given below and make changes as per your description.
  9. Add the following html code to your page and customize the relating parameters.

    <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/
    cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="400" height="300"
    id="flashvideoplayer.swf" align="middle">
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
    <param name="movie"
    value="http://www.myhomepage.com/flashvideoplayer.swf?
    flv=http://www.myhomepage.com/myvideofile.flv">
    <param name="quality" value="high">
    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
    <embed src="http://www.myhomepage.com/flashvideoplayer.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="400" height="300" name="flashvideoplayer.swf"
    align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
    </object>
  10. Replace your public URL generated in step 6 and make other changes such as name of flv file or swf file.
  11. Generate public URL to your html page and share it.
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