Tips and Tricks (Basic)-Streaming Video from Your Own Server

Video Transcription

Majority of the time when you add a video to Oasis, you upload the video from your desktop, or you download it from a particular URL that will allow you to upload the video faster.  You also have the alternative to say, my video is already on a server, such as your own version of Amazon S3, and you just want to put the URL directly here.  One thing you have to make sure is that this URL must actually have the video that you have. You see this one has a video, okay? So that Oasis will be able to stream it.  Then I'm just gonna say this one is my own video server.  Okay? And I'm just gonna save it and show how this will work.  When you do this, what happens is Oasis will actually just generate a cover image directly from the video stream that you pasted that ends with MP4, right?  Keep in mind, I copied this, it ends with MP4. And then I'm just going to stream directly from the video you upload, the link you provided. If you delete the video from your server,  Oasis is not gonna know about it, and Oasis will break. So keep in mind, it is entirely possible to save storage by stream video directly from your own server,  but you are responsible for having your own server. And make sure the video exists on your server. So let's just take a look at what this one looks like.  So you can see this video is playing. I'm just gonna click on it to show that you will play. Okay, and just to prove that it is coming from this server  instead of from Oasis Amazon, I'm just gonna quickly debug it to show that you can see here,  it is being streamed from this particular URL instead of Oasis S3. So here's just the example of how you can actually stream video directly from your server  without actually touching Oasis. Thank you.

Video Summary

In the video, the speaker explains how to add videos to Oasis. Users can upload videos from their desktop or download them from a specific URL for faster uploading. Alternatively, users can provide the URL if the video is already on their own server, like Amazon S3. It is important to ensure that the URL actually contains the desired video. Oasis generates a cover image from the video and streams it directly from the uploaded link. However, if the video is deleted from the server, Oasis will break. The video demonstrates how to stream a video from a personal server instead of using Oasis. No credits were mentioned.

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Creation Year 2022

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video uploading

URL upload

server URL

cover image generation

streaming from personal server