CrunchBuddy: Server-based Video Transcode for AMS with Adobe AIR!

November 21st 2012

Adobe Media Server User Group

Joseph Labrecque

Senior Interactive Software Engineer | Adjunct Faculty University of Denver

Proprietor | Owner Fractured Vision Media, LLC

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Author Packt Publishing | O’Reilly Media | video2brain | Adobe Press | Peachpit

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What’s wrong? • No centralized upload, processing, distribution

• Everyone is doing their own thing

What do we need? • Unified, centralized system

• Tooling for students and faculty

• Distribution across desktops and devices

Services for faculty and staff • Request video recording services for official DU events, such as

guest speakers, lecturers, performances, marketing, and live events.

• Upload and publish staff and faculty videos.

• Upload private course related videos for student assessment.

• Browse and search on hundreds of DU videos.

Services for students • Upload your course video assignment (if your instructor has

activated this feature).

• Located on VideoManager

• Must be numeric – ID assigned by app

• Files copied to CRUNCHER

• UNC Path

• Use NativeProcess MediaInfo

• Read in encoding data

• Compare with HQ profile data

• Add file to transcode queue

• Send data to VideoManager

• AJAX Requests

• Use NativeProcess HandBrakeCLI

• Pass in arguments for AMS playback

• File is encoded to AMS storage

• Optionally: HQ original is moved to storage

• UNC Path

• AMS is polled to gather final data

• NetConnection

• Data is bundled and sent to VideoManager

• AJAX Requests

• VideoManager lets user know status

• User finalizes metadata - done

• Uploader checks for min/max filesize

• Uploader checks for valid file types

• CrunchBuddy produces a log each session

• HandBrake may reject the file

• User is notified of any problems

• Original file and log is retained

• Google Chromium = 99%

• University of Denver = 96%

• Steam = 97%

• StatOWL = 96%

• RIAStats = 96%

• Over 1.3 Billion people have Flash Player 11

• An audience 20x larger than Xbox 360

• 500 million additional iOS/Android via AIR

• 600 million perform silent install

• Google Chrome and Windows 8 ModernUI

• 96% top Facebook games are Flash Player

• Stage3D / Starling / Away3D

• Flash Professional “HellCat”

• Flash Builder 4.7

• ActionScript Compiler 2.0

• Project “Monocle”

• New Runtimes

• New Virtual Machine

• New version of ActionScript

Get in touch…

Twitter: @JosephLabrecque

Email: Joseph.Labrecque@du.edu

Web: http://JosephLabrecque.com/