Summary: <p>This video covers a web service that I’ve been using lately called <a href="http://www.bitsontherun.com/via/zendcasts/">Bits on the Run</a>. The service has fantastic support (with even the famous JW from the JW Player offering assistance if needed) and good documentation. If you want to build a web 2.0 app with video and aren’t interested in managing the encoding of multiple formats, BotR is for you.</p> <p>I look at searching and getting detailed information from the bits on the run web service. If you’re planning on using Bits on the Run for live video uploads, I would encourage using the flash uploader on their downloads page.</p> <p>Instead of JSON, the web service is XML based, so there’s some references to using SimpleXML as well.<br> If you took the time to look at the last video on web services, this will all be pretty familiar, except that instead of working with a web service that I’ve created, I’ll take advantage of a commercial web service. If you’re planning on integrating video into your web application and find this video helpful, please consider <a href="http://www.bitsontherun.com/via/zendcasts/">following this affiliate link</a> as a way of supporting zendcasts.<br> This video wraps up a series on RESTful web services. I’ll be moving onto Zend_Db and then Doctrine integration in the following weeks.</p> <p>If all the jumping around is getting to you, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/zendcasts/source/browse/#svn/trunk/ep17-working-with-bits-on-the-run">grab the source code from google code</a> and follow along.<br> </p>
