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Movie Masher is integrated into a wide variety of sites and provides a range of functionality within them. While the architecture is neatly divided into front and back end components, and both of these are available as ready-to-launch AMIs within Amazon's
EC2 infrastructure, you're not required to use them both in tandem. Some sites just use the SDK to facilitate editing, while others just use the Transcoder for media processing - it depends on your needs.
The Software Development Kit includes all source files and compiled assets manifesting the editor within a browser, as well as several example deployments implemented in PHP and their associated XML configuration. The scripts are simple, so it's not uncommon for folks to rewrite them in other CGI compliant languages. The most advanced standalone example requires no authentication and simply shares the resultant mash on Facebook. There is also an extensive example that relies on the Transcoder for media conversions.
This Amazon Machine Image is simply a standard LAMP server with the SDK preinstalled, ready for testing and customization. By default it delivers the Facebook sharing example, but can be easily configured at launch time or afterwards to utilize the Transcoder, S3 and/or SQS. Both FTP and root access to instances is enabled and the AMI can be rebundled to build your own launchable servers.
This Amazon Machine Image provides a private web API that the SDK can utilize for many transcoding tasks. The example included in the SDK converts user uploads to low resolution previews for optimum performance within the editor, while using the original high resolution files during the conversion back to true video format for download. Files can be stored locally or on S3 and jobs can be queued through REST or SQS (AWS support is generalized, so similar systems work too).
The powerful, yet oh-so-simple AWS CloudFormation service allows many resources to be bundled together into a 'stack' which you can then deploy with just a few clicks, and shut back down just as easily. The Movie Masher stacks provide different configurations utilizing EC2, S3, SQS and other services to build a robust and scalable networked application that responds appropriately to changes in traffic.
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