Bloggin' about the Rackspace Cloud

The following video is an FLV that is running on cloud files and cached to Limelight’s CDN.

Get the Flash Player to see this player.



After creating a “container” in cloud files, you can upload files and publish the entire container contents to the CDN. Once you create a container, this box will display at the bottom of your control panel when you click on a container:







The characters that are blurred out reference the specific container in cloud files. Currently CNAME is not available on cloud files, but that should change very shortly.



For this example video above, the flash player is a wordpress plugin. You can also use your own flash player and store it on cloud files if its a swf object file, as shown below:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="100" height="100" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="100"></embed></object> src="SWF Player URL goes here"
width="# in Pixels"
height="# in Pixels"
allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true"
flashvars="file=FLV files URL goes here&amp;autostart=false&amp;skin=SWF sking URL goes here&amp;image=Preview picture of video URL goes here"
/&gt;

An example would look like this:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="100" height="100" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="100"></embed></object> src="http://www.domain.com/player.swf"
width="680"
height="383"
allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true"
flashvars="file=http://www.domain.com/video.flv&amp;autostart=false&amp;skin=http://www.domain.com/skin.swf&amp;image=http://www.domain.com/previewpicture.jpg"
/&gt;