Creating a Video Platform using ColdFusion, Dynamic HTTP Streaming and OSMF
After kindly getting invited to speak at Scotch on the Rocks 2011 (Europe’s Premier ColdFusion conference) by Andy Allan of Fuzzy Orange, myself and Andy Wallace gave a presentation on building a simple video platform using ColdFusion, the new Dynamic HTTP Streaming Module for Apache and the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF).
In the presentation, we showed how you could easily build a simple video sharing platform, including the ability to show advert videos before and after each feature video. Using the OSMF framework, Andy showed how to build a Video Player that controlled the User Experience by forcing them to view the Advert videos, whilst allowing them to seek through the Feature video, allowing the developer to (hopefully!) monetize their service.
ColdFusion made it easy to create a simple back end to upload the videos and generate the Playlists for the videos, whilst Flex gave a nice admin interface to allow users to upload the videos and make playlists. Download the demo code and follow the configuration instructions contained within.