The Rackspace Cloud and Akamai CDN

A step bu step guide to delivering video to Rackspace and Akamai with Encoding.com

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step 1 of 5

Encoding.com is offering a free month of encoding to all Rackspace customers who sign up now. Use promo code "RACKER". Choose either our Max Plan (save $300, get 75GB of encoding) or Plus Plan (save $50, get 10GB of encoding).

Choose how you want to send your videos to us:

Web Interface — Browse and upload from your hard drive.
Desktop App — Adobe Air app for desktop management and cloud processing of your videos.
Watch Folder — Quickly set an encoding profile, and the location of your videos (FTP/SFTP/CloudFiles or Amazon S3), and our system will watch for new video files to encode.
API - Advanced integration into your own application or workflow.
Create a Cloud Files Container
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Login to your Rackspace Cloud account and click Add Container. You can then check the "Publish to CDN" option in the CDN and Meta Data section for any CloudFiles container. This option will enable your container to automatically distribute your video files via the Akamai content delivery network which is ideal for media distribution.

Show us where your source video is located
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Login to encoding.com and click Add Media or Watch Folder (you can also use our API or Desktop Adobe Air application)

Point us to your source video location. This can be a publicly available FTP/SFTP/Rackspace CloudFileslocation, or on your hard drive. If you are using a Rackspace CloudFiles container, the source media folder will look like http://rs_user:rs_key@storage.cloudfiles.com/path/video_in

Choose how you want to be notified when the job is complete: this can either be an email address, or an HTTP URL in which we will send you XML.

Set the Destinationto be the Rackspace CloudFiles location you configured in step 2: http://rs_user:rs_key@storage.cloudfiles.com/path/video_out Encoding.com will output directly to this location.
Choose your encoding settings: Set and Forget step 4 of 5

To make it very simple, Encoding.com supports a wide range of presets for the most popular Internet and mobile device formats (video, audio, images). Of course, you have complete control and can customize any encoding parameter (size, bitrate, etc). The most popular formats for Internet delivery are the "VP6" and "Flash H.264" presets.
Point your media player to the video location
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That`s it! Once the encoding job is complete, point your Flash player or mobile device directly to the
output URL you specified in Step 3. For example http://c0000532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/my_movie.mp4