Check the results

Content

Check S3 bucket

  1. When accessing the S3 bucket interface, you see that the output contains the files of the output video s3
  2. Check the output directory, it contains output files with different bit rates and corresponding Playlist for each bit rate s3
  3. The playlist primary.m3u8 contains output videos that can be played by the users devices s3

Play the output video on a mobile device

The URL to access Amazon CloudFront includes two parts:

  • The Amazon CloudFront domain name
  • The Playlist path in the S3 bucket

Amazon CloudFront domain name

  • Access the Amazon CloudFront interface
  • Select the Distribution created in the previous section and copy the Distribution domain name in the General tab cloudfront

Playlist path in the S3 bucket

  • Access the Amazon S3 interface
  • Select the bucket created in the previous section
  • Select the output folder
  • Select the primary.m3u8 Playlist playlist

Add /output/primary.m3u8 after the existing Distribution domain name from the previous section and use this URL to access CloudFront and play the output video on a mobile device.

Result

result

Thus, we have successfully used Amazon CloudFront to distribute a video’s content to users devices by utilizing Amazon Elastic Transcoder to convert the original video into a format suitable for the devices.