davidestevens

i'm starting a project in which I'd like to capture video & audio, save the resulting file and then upload it for almost immediate viewing (http streaming rather than live streaming).

So I guess that's jit.uldl for the file transferring.

the easy option would be to use either youtube or vimeo (creating a new account for the project), however, youtube doesn't have ftp uploading, and though vimeo does, it requires paying for the full Pro service, which is not cheap.

The only other option I've found so far is VPS, which I can get on a monthly basis, so i suppose it's a possibility, but I was wondering if there was a simpler/cheaper way.

Anyone done this kind of thing before? Any advice?

PS - I saw a mention of using Terminal via shell in an earlier post. Will that work for youtube? I don't know _anything about shell!

i'm starting a project in which I'd like to capture video & audio, save the resulting file and then upload it for almost immediate viewing (http streaming rather than live streaming).
So I guess that's jit.uldl for the file transferring.
but...
the easy option would be to use either youtube or vimeo (creating a new account for the project), however, youtube doesn't have ftp uploading, and though vimeo does, it requires paying for the full Pro service, which is not cheap.
The only other option I've found so far is VPS, which I can get on a monthly basis, so i suppose it's a possibility, but I was wondering if there was a simpler/cheaper way.
Or has anyone made a youtube uploader?
Anyone done this kind of thing before? Any advice?

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I don't think that shell alone will be of a help, unless you want a command-line communication with another program that takes care of the upload.

Youtube has a REST API that allows also video uploading. I haven't worked with this so far, but a brief scanning of the API-references (

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started)

 seems to confirm that you can upload videos.

You might be able to communicate with the Youtube API via the Max-JavaScript XMLHttpRequest() Object. The API usage doesn't seem to be super trivial when using it directly. Google offers libraries for a more streamlined usage. For that to get to work you would need go to Java/mxj which is supported as well by Google (

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/java).

... but probably there is a simple way as well with other providers ;)

Hi David,
I don't think that shell alone will be of a help, unless you want a command-line communication with another program that takes care of the upload.

Another option might be:
Youtube has a REST API that allows also video uploading. I haven't worked with this so far, but a brief scanning of the API-references (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started) seems to confirm that you can upload videos.
You might be able to communicate with the Youtube API via the Max-JavaScript XMLHttpRequest() Object. The API usage doesn't seem to be super trivial when using it directly. Google offers libraries for a more streamlined usage. For that to get to work you would need go to Java/mxj which is supported as well by Google (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/java).

I think having to deal with javascript and APIs would do a Scanners on my brain (the Cronenberg film, not the musician :) ). Which is to say it's somewhat beyond my competencies!

I've been experimenting today with uploading an html page and an mp4 video file to one of my sites, and apart from needing to let the video load for a while before starting play (and for some reason the video is autoplaying even though the autoplay flag is set to false) that's working. It may be that as long as I've paid for enough server space, and there aren't too many hits at any one time, that might work as an approach. And maybe swithc the pages to a VPS if it suddenly becomes popular.

Have you done this kind of thing yourself?

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get jit.vcr to record smaller (disc space) movie files. otherwise I'm going to have to do all of this manually with video conversion software :( But that's a different post...

hi Jan, and thanks for the input.
I think having to deal with javascript and APIs would do a Scanners on my brain (the Cronenberg film, not the musician :) ). Which is to say it's somewhat beyond my competencies!

I've been experimenting today with uploading an html page and an mp4 video file to one of my sites, and apart from needing to let the video load for a while before starting play (and for some reason the video is autoplaying even though the autoplay flag is set to false) that's working. It may be that as long as I've paid for enough server space, and there aren't too many hits at any one time, that might work as an approach. And maybe swithc the pages to a VPS if it suddenly becomes popular.
Have you done this kind of thing yourself?

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get jit.vcr to record smaller (disc space) movie files. otherwise I'm going to have to do all of this manually with video conversion software :(  But that's a different post...


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