Quickstart Guide for Encoding.com and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Quickstart Guide for Encoding.com and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Introduction

This guide will help you understand how the Encoding.com platform integrates with B2 Cloud storage. This guide assumes that you already have a Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage account created with a Bucket and Credentials made. It also assumes that you have created an Encoding.com account and want to encode video data that already resides within Backblaze B2 cloud storage or to send data Backblaze B2 cloud storage or both.

If you have not, Here are some links to get you started.

Backblaze B2 Quickstart Guide

Creating a B2 Bucket using the Web UI

Creating and Managing Application Keys

The following steps will help you use Encoding.com to your video files from one format to another. This is a basic guide to get you started.

Before you get started, be sure to have the following information handy.

1. Backblaze Endpoint URL for your bucket:

2. Backblaze KeyID and ApplicationKey

3. Bucket Name and path to the video file you are encoding.

• /Bucket-Name/Object-Name

Login to your Encoding.com Account: https://manage.encoding.com/ui/media

Select the NETAPP (Generic S3) button, then expand the screen to build out the source URL in the following format:

s3://<KeyID>:<ApplicationKey>@<Endpoint-Address>/<Bucket-Name>/<Object-Name>

Then select: Start Encoding

You have the option to set Job Setting, which you can leave as default, but you will need to select the Output Format you want to encode.

Once you have chosen an Output Format you will be given additional options to define.

Now that you have both the source and output destination defined, you can click Process Video to start encoding.

If you go to Job Queue, you can see your job running.

Once the job is completed, you can see the newly encoded file in your source bucket.

NOTE: If you would like to utilize Encoding.com to script the encoding process you can follow the links to their documentation on how to format XML files and utilize their API.

Formatting XML Files for Encoding.com

The Encoding.com API

Once you have created your files you would utilize the API Builder in Encoding.com’s UI to execute the script as shown in the screenshot below.