Any news on being able to upload video using j-cook? surley its not that hard just allowing an extra file extension and being able to choose the name of the folder its uploaded into? I really require this function for a project im working on would be seriously usefull.

@cefnllys

This could be achieved by adding additional extension/mime options to the file uploader. Obviously, cook doesn't use/include any video options however, a plugin to include an opensource player such as JWPlayer is very easy to write. It is a wonderfully powerful player with which I have a fair amount of experience. To name just a few of it's features, it playlists, audio & video formats, is extensible via a powerful JS api , interact with it via JQuery and plays HTML5 audio and video. Furthermore, it has a powerful and easy-to-understand plugin-architecture that makes customising it's interaction with your scripts, tracking and social networks well within the realm of possibility - if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty!

Here's a list:

Video Type	Extension	Mime Type
Flash	.flv	video/x-flv
MPEG-4	.mp4	video/mp4
iPhone Index	.m3u8	application/x-mpegURL
iPhone Segment	.ts	video/MP2T
3GP Mobile	.3gp	video/3gpp
QuickTime	.mov	video/quicktime
A/V Interleave	.avi	video/x-msvideo
Windows Media	.wmv	video/x-ms-wmv

If you are looking for an excellent player to play your content and want the flexibility to stream or playback progressively (progressive downloading), you should check out the aforementioned JW Player.

Want to serve your media from Amazon S3 and/or Cloudfront?...
You may want to read this stackoverflow post that I wrote in answer to a question of how to achieve that.

In a slight update on that post, to serve your media using progressive download option via a Cloudfront distribution also, - see modes[] var in the script - alternatively, you could set up another cloudfront distribution with the same source amazon S3 Bucket, specified as a download distribution. This way you really have the best of both worlds and avoid having to set up a wowza media server as described in the post...

Hope this is useful to someone!

Gez