Could some one please tell me how i would connect the heywatch.com service to my nirvanix account. The service allows firms to transcode video on demand. The trouble is that since the transcoding done by nirvanix is not that great. We need some way of transferring the transcoded content onto our SDN account.

 The best way to do this would be to parse the resonse from heywatch download XML into the sideload call:

<downloads>
  <download>
    <status>finished</status>
    <updated-at>Fri Oct 27 14:26:18 CEST 2006</updated-at>
    <video-id>524</video-id>
    <title>YouTube - Rube Goldberg Officeplace Contraption</title>
    <error-msg></error-msg>
    <url>http:// host.com/videos/fun.avi</url>
    <id>79</id>
    <progress percent="100" current_length="2109"/>
    <length>2109</length>
    <created-at>Fri Oct 27 14:26:11 CEST 2006</created-at>
  </download>
</downloads>

Parsing out the URL and sending it to the sideload command will let you easily integrate.  I would like to get more information about what is missing and what you would like to see improved.  On the horizon we have H264 support coming which should increase the quality of the video.  Beyond this is there anything else you are looking for specifically in terms of video trascoding?

Regards,
       Barry R.

Thanks for the rapid response. I actually have a project that i have to decide on the storage system. I am stuck between Amazon webservices and Nirvanix. I know that ec2 can easily transcode video but the service is not available outside of North America. And i do not know what bitrates Nirvanix would use to service the transcode.

 The other problem is that heywatch.com download url is something like this : http://heywatch.com/videos/123.bin

When you download this link within your browser it redirects to your flv file. I am trying to setup something where as soon as the file is trancoded it goes directly into Storage with Nirvanix. Any thoughts on how that is possible.

Best Regards

Hareem. 

 Other than just issuing a sideload request of the finished URL I don't know if another way to accomplish this.  I believe if there is a redirect the sideload will honor the redirect and download the target file.

Regards,
      Barry R.