We have been saving all mp4 files to a filesystem known as seaweedfs, and now we have moved it to s3.
we have an endpoint in Phoenix API as
get "/cameras/:id/archives/:archive_id/play", ArchiveController, :play
While we were on seaweedfs. The endpoint was returning us a URL to that MP4 file as
conn
|> redirect(external: "#{seaweed_url}/#{exid}/clips/#{archive_id}.mp4")
and now on S3 it’s giving us back as
{:ok, content} = do_load("#{exid}/clips/#{archive_id}/#{archive_id}.mp4")
conn
|> put_resp_header("content-type", "video/mp4")
|> text(content)
whereas do_load is a very simple method to load data from S3 as
def do_load(path) do
case ExAws.S3.get_object("bucketname", path) |> ExAws.request do
{:ok, response} -> {:ok, response.body}
{:error, {:http_error, code, response}} ->
message = EvercamMedia.XMLParser.parse_single(response.body, '/Error/Message')
{:error, code, message}
end
end
We are sending a request to a server (Phoenix API) from a rails application on a play button, which may then load that mp4 data into a video player. (videojs). When it was a straight URL the video was playing very fast, but as now it’s an mp4 data content-type, the video player is taking much time for first download all that data and then play it.
I am looking for some suggestion to make it more faster. We don’t need to make mp4 files public to get a straight URL from s3, But Still, want to serve it through API.
Is there any way to make it faster? Any suggestion if you would make , it will be helpful. Thanks
