Connecting to S3 bucket
The S3 bucket provided by Magine is exclusive to a single partner.
To access the bucket you will need credentials that consist of an AWS Access Key and Secret Access Key. Magine creates all buckets in eu-west-1 (Ireland) region.
If you need credentials, please contact support@magine.com. We will send you all the needed information in an encrypted zip file (the password to open the file will be sent separately for security reasons).
You can get two access keys. One main with access rights to all folders and one for subcontractors without access to the folder that contains your services' data.
Magine can create credentials with two different levels of access:
- read-write (which can download, upload and delete content)
- read-only (which can only download content)
- write-only (which can only upload and delete content but not download)
The default credentials we provide give read-write access.
The bucket can be accessed with tools like Cyberduck, FileZilla, WinSCP, S3browser as well as standard tools and libraries like AWS CLI or boto3 library.
We recommend you do NOT use the following software libraries:
- https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse since these can "read / write" data up to 10 times more then you need to and keeps data synchronised, therefore increasing fees. Please check with the 3rd parties documentation as to how the software operates.
We support the following folders inside the bucket:
- /vod/ - Used to upload VOD content for transcoding.
- /epg/ - Used to upload EPG data for live-tv.
- /trailers/ - For serving trailers.
How to access the bucket to upload or download VOD assets
When you have installed a tool do the following:
- Open the application
- Click "Open Connection"
- Select S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service)
- Enter the credentials you've received from Magine.
- Server: com-magine-partners-XXXXXX.s3.amazonaws.com (replace XXX with the name of your bucket)
- Access Key ID: The Access Key you requested from Magine.
- Secret Access Key: The Secret Access Key you requested from Magine.
Instructions for uploading a VOD asset
- Select the folder with the name com-magine-partners-XXXXXX
- Select the folder with the name vod/<asset> and double click on it
- Click the "Action" button in the top menu
- Select "New Folder"
- Enter a name for your folder, e.g. the movie name, without any spaces
- Click create
- Then double click on the new folder
- Click the "Action" button again and select upload
- Select the file to upload from your computer
At the end the asset should end up in: s3://com-magine-partners-XXXXXX/vod/<asset>/<files>
Storage
The assets stored in the S3 bucket and cost a small fee as long as they are there. For assets that are transcoded and inactive, they are not residing in the partner S3 bucket and thus, have no cost (for the partner) associated with them.