Hi,
I'm looking at hosting video content on s3. If I understand correctly, s3 is just a simple storage mechanism - we can just host files on it, and pull them into our sites via their urls.
What are people using to stream videos hosted on s3? I've only used the youtube apis to embed their video player in my pages, but I'm not sure what I would use for a raw video file. For example, I'd imagine my page would look something like:
<html>
<body>
<some-video-player />
</body>
</html>
I'm not sure what tag "some-video-player" should be, but I assume it would point to my video on my s3 account like: http://example-s3.com/myaccount/video-in-question.mp4
Are there opensource video players I can use to embed in my webpage and point them to the resources on my s3 site? Is this basically how it works? I am starting from scratch so I can use any video format I want (preferably a format which maximizes quality with small file size... (not too original)), and I can also develop the page however I like (any video player etc),
Thanks