Fri 11 Sep 2009
OrthodoxSermons.org 2.0
Posted by Andrew Mitry under AudioVisual, OrthodoxSermons.org, Web/Tech
[4] Comments
I know I am long overdue for an update on what’s been going on with OrthodoxSermons.org, we launched the new site on July 12th. The team at Mustardseed Media did a wonderful job and we are continuing to work with them for additional features on the site.
One of the features I am most excited about on the new site is the ability for other Orthodox Churches to easily upload their sermons, once uploaded those sermons can be embedded back on the church site.
For the techies who may be interested, we are currently hosting the site on a Virtual Private Server at Slicehost and and all the media is stored on Amazon S3.
September 16th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Sweet!! Great to see this up and running! Looks beautiful.
I noticed you were using S3. Are you using media mover to move things to S3 or some other method?
I’m in the middle of converting our sermons from audio to filefield+S3. I’ve got it mostly working but need to figure out how to get the S3 URL back into the node for display. Any tips?
Hopefully I can make the Oct IT RT
September 16th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
We are using Media Mover to move things to S3, but the integration was done by MustardSeed, I’ll see if I can more details for you.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Hey Steve,
Just an FYI that may help you out in this process. We discovered early on that we couldn’t store files from S3 in our CCK filefields. Therefore, our fileflow looks like this:
Upload originals to local filefield -> process with FFMPEG -> move files to S3 -> pull file URLs back to the local site using CCK Link field (not filefield) -> remove original filefield file from local server
We do this process for each file needed. So the result is that the local site has no filefield files, it simply has CCK link fields pointing to the processed files on S3.
Hopefully that’s helpful.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Ahh. I’m right along with you – I’m at the pull URLs back to local site using ???? step
CCK Link would be the answer? – I was going to research the CCK field types to determine which one would be best to hold the URL.
Is the linking of the flash player to the URL done in the theme then? – or is there a view module that can do that?
(too bad embedded media fields don’t talk S3 – that would seem to be a good fit – maybe I will try and see if that would be hard to add)
Thanks for any insight you (or Rob) can add from your lessons learned.