January 2010
1 post
New hosted Panda service begins testing
Although things have been quiet for some time here, rest assured we have been working hard! We’re currently at the final stages testing the new managed Panda service internally. This service will allow people to make use of Panda without the fuss of managing the software installation and EC2 instances manually. The new version includes an improved API, with more control of the encoding...
March 2009
3 posts
Flex upload example →
This little example Flex application will get you started with using Flex to upload videos to Panda.
An Interview With The Developers Of FFmpeg →
FFmpeg 0.5 released! →
We were very happy to hear today that FFmpeg is back on track to a making a regular release schedule. With the release of version 0.5 we will be including it in the new Panda EC2 AMI.
December 2008
1 post
Implementing Panda Into Our API →
Red takes us through customising Panda to allow both image and video uploads though the same API.
October 2008
2 posts
Panda 1.2 released
We’ve just released version 1.2 of Panda.
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been busy working on a couple of features:
Optionally storing videos on the local filesystem instead of S3.
Changing the clipping (thumbnail and screenshot) for videos through the admin interface.
Filesystem storage is great news if you want to host Panda yourself without relying on S3. It’s also...
Playing with Panda without SimpleDB account
If you are interested in trying out panda without getting a SimpleDB account we’ve got good news for you!
There are currently 2 simpledb like tools at this moment(as far as I know). They won’t be for production use, but should be enough to play around or use it for development purpose.
simplerdb = Ruby implementation.
simpledb-dev = Python implementation
I initially tried...
September 2008
3 posts
Panda AMI 1.1 release
We made a several changes to the Panda AMI and released new image. We have updated the documentation - please see the “getting_started” page for details. Here are the list of changes we made. We will keep ~/CHANGELOG (on the image) updated as we make changes in future.
Created CHANGELOG
Upgraded merb from 0.9.3 to 0.9.7
Upgraded Erubis from 2.4.1 to 2.6.2
Installed tlsmail gems.
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Amazon's CDN is coming soon →
Using MySQL instead of SimpleDB →
Amazon’s SimpleDB is unfortunately still in closed beta, so not everyone can make use of Panda running completely on AWS. Luckily Red has just started work on adding MySQL support to Panda.
August 2008
1 post
Panda Google Group →