We’ve been getting reports of intermittent issues with transcoding on our CDN2 service.

After digging around for a while, we’ve found an issue where messages are not getting delivered through Amazon SQS to our transcode nodes.

The good news is that as of tomorrow morning, we’ll be deploying CDN2 to a new scaleable infrastructure that removes the Amazon dependencies. This move will improve performance and stabillity of video uploads and transcoding.  read more »

I combed through the Issue queue for Drupal 6 yesterday and have provided a bunch of fixes and updates. I pushed them all into the Dev branch, which seen here, http://drupal.org/node/409912 .

Updates include, Drupal 6 Schema API for the database,
Flowplayer 3,
various JS bugs,
and switched things over to accommodate Drupal Standards.

We’ve had a great response to CDN2, our video platform for Drupal. The number one request so far was to make a Drupal 6 compatible version. I’m happy to announce that CDN2 is now available for Drupal 6 on the Drupal.org project page.

If you haven’t tried to do video online, you’d be surprised at how difficult it is. There’s a large number of formats out there, and often your source video isn’t appropriate for displaying on a web page. The process of converting the source to a format and size that works online and then getting it into Drupal and delivered to your viewers turns out to be expensive and time consuming.  read more »