Hey everyone!
Hope your fall is starting out well! I know lots of folks have been working hard on digital content delivery and thought I would just send an update on what MN Opera did in case it might be helpful to you. We went through the same jaw dropping process of getting quotes from several vendors and then a local company here in Minnesota pointed us in the direction of Mux. We didn't have anybody here on staff that knew how to use it but our local vendor was able to build it out for a very reasonable amount of money-we should come in under any of the original quotes we got from the bigger traditional vendors. Our first stream starts on the 27th so I don't know yet if it's going to be good but I wanted to go ahead and let the community know because I know folks are running short on time. Just wanted to share! I'm happy to connect folks to our local vendor but I wasn't sure what the rules are about that in the community. Good luck! ~Greg
Thanks for sharing Greg! This was a very helpful update/resource. Has anyone started conversations with Amazon Web Services (AWS)? I saw the Mux example referenced a file with AWS and seemed to offer some of the same features (ingesting, transcoding, storage, streaming, etc.), but I'm not 100% sure what the differences are between the platforms (forgive me if I'm naive – I'm learning A LOT through this process). Just curious to see if anyone else had started a conversation with AWS (I don't think I've seen anything in the forums yet)!
Alisa, I also looked at AWS, but our developers thought that MUX was an easier to implement solution. The thing that is interesting is if you're good at AWS you might even be able to do it all in house-it doesn't require any knowledge on how to use an API-I played around with it before we went in this other diection. From how I understand it is you set up a S3 bucket, then select one of their transcoding services, then use Cloudfront to publish the video and you can use a Open Sourcce and Free front end player like https://videojs.com/. There are some other open source front end video players out there.
That's the vibe I'm getting too even in just looking at MUX's website. What you mentioned is consistent with the conversation we've had with AWS so far, so I'm grateful to know we're heading in the right direction. Thanks for passing along the sample open source player! Very helpful. The adventure continues...