Ok I been Googling for a while now, and i can't seem to find a good tutorial on how to connect to an Amazon S3 account from my hosting server. If anyones knows of a good step by step tutorial please post url.
Here's a little bit more info on what im trying to accomplish. im using Vidiscript which is a YouTube clone I want to save on disk space and bandwidth by uploading all videos to an amazon S3 account and i also needed away to mass upload since vidiscript doesn't offer a free way to upload more that one video at a time. I wanted to create a cron job that checks for newly upload videos and adds info to database. but I still have to come up with a way to create a preview thumbnail for videos so I might have to upload to hosting then create thumbnails then upload to amazon S3 account then delete files from hosting.
But either way I need to connect to my amazon S3 account from hosting server.
I will be streaming all videos using flowplayer's pseudostreaming plugin.
any alternative solutions to save on bandwidth and mass upload would also be appreciated.