Google Video Website

Question

I am going to work on a video site where users / administrators will be able to upload videos and play them using some open source javascript player. However, I want to know whether to start this project with the Google engine, given its limitations on the server and data storage.

What are the problems that I may have to face in the Google app, and if there are any possible solutions to these problems.

Currently, I am having doubts about converting videos at boot time, creating images from downloaded videos (something like ffmpeg for the Google engine) and whether the google application engine will allow streaming video for large videos, given its requests and response limitations .

Please offer.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, that’s practical. You probably want to check blobstore to download and maintain your videos. The conversion will be a bit more complicated, since you cannot do it directly in App Engine - you will need to use an external service and either configure your users to download directly to it, or download the service, transcode, and re-upload the video to the App Engine website.

Answer 2

As Nick noted, this can be done, and it will not be a direct implementation.

I would suggest using Amazon EC2 for video conversion and Amazon S3 for video storage when using App Engine to create a reliable and incredibly scalable interface.

Answer 3

Yes, you very quickly delete all quotas for application engines related to bandwidth and storage. Check out this page: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html for actual numbers. I tried to create an application that indexes all links in wikipedia articles, and I probably only got 10% of all articles.