about the beta
Originally, Movie Masher was developed as a full blown desktop application for OSX. But when Adobe added
support for low level bitmap manipulations to Flash, much of the code was ported to ActionScript and released.
The preprocessing and rendering code that remained was turned into a server, orginally deployed on Xserve but
eventually ported to LINUX. Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud web service (EC2) was used to facilitate the port, and
has since proved a great distribution mechanism for getting the software to those involved in the private beta.
The server beta is now publicly available on EC2 as an S3 based AMI.
quick start
Get Movie Masher up and running in standalone mode by following these steps:
- Sign up for Amazon's EC2 web service and wait for their activation letter.
- Find the Movie Masher image within Amazon's EC2 Management Console.
- Launch an instance of the Movie Masher AMI, supplying user data similar to this:
<MovieMasher>
<PasswordFTP>YOUR_FTP_PASSWORD</PasswordFTP>
</MovieMasher>
- Make sure the security group the instance was launched within has port 80 open.
- After the instance finishes launching take note of its Public DNS Name.
- Enter the Public DNS Name into your browser's location field, supplying any username/password combination when prompted.
- To make changes to the example deployment via FTP, make sure port 21 and 22 are open in the security group (as well as 12000-12100 if using PASV) and use the following access details:
Host: YOUR_PUBLIC_DNS_NAME
Username: moviemasher
Password: YOUR_FTP_PASSWORD
- Learn more in the Server Documentation.
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