Often you will want to play the video stored on your Nirvanix account. One of the easiest formats to play back would be FLV since Adobe has done most of the hard work in flash already. You have the option to either create a player in flash or you can purchase one of the many that are available. This tutorial will describe how to convert a video in avi format to FLV then upload, transcode and setup a player.
Uploading the AVI
For this step we will use the PHP Web Client. You can find a sample site running at: http://www.nirvanixtest.com/webclient/
If you intend to use this extensively you should get the source and put the site up on your own server. To upload we will create a folder in the root called "video"
Transcoding to FLV
After the upload is complete you can browse to the upload folder and click on the file you want to transcode and click on Transcode Video.
Once you have selected the video to transcode you will need to type the destination file and path along with the transcode quality.
After you click on "Transcode File" It may take a few minutes to process the request in the background. Depending on the size of the file the time will vary. You can refresh the destination folder to know when the conversion has completed. Normally you would have a process in the background listening to the callbackURL which will be called when the video transcode is complete.
Embed Flash in HTML
Once you have the video converted to FLV you will need to upload a player to this directory. For this tutorial we have selected the moxiecode FLV player because it is a simple example that follows the logic that most web flash applications use. You can find a copy at: http://oos.moxiecode.com/flvplayer/ along side: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ which is used to render the swf object through javascript without too much more work.
Upload the flvPlayer.swf and swfobject.js to the movies folder along side the FLV. This will be the movie player you will be using that is embedded in the html page we will be creating. Once this is done you can upload the html page to the same folder.
You can view the working html sample here: http://services.nirvanix.com/Movie Viewer/movietest/movies/video.html