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#Amazon Elastic Transcoder (ET)
#ET supports presets for transcoding
#http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/developerguide/preset-settings.html

//Let's put our video file to AWS S3. $region = "eu-west-1";
$folder = "source_videos/"; //init class to work with s3.
$s3 = new AmazonS3(); //get real file path
$real_video_file = str_replace(base_url(), ROOT, $some_file); //generate new unique video name
$unique_string = md5(uniqid() . time());
$video_file = $folder . $unique_string; //send out file to s3 storage
$s3->batch()->create_object("pam-media-input", $video_file, array( 'fileUpload' => $real_video_file));

$file_upload_response = $s3->batch()->send(); //get upload status
$upload2s3_status = $file_upload_response->areOK();
//if status = OK then process with new job for transcodering

//2) next we need to setup new transcoding job
//for more info check http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/developerguide/create-job.html //init class to work with ET
$et = new AWS_ET(awsAccessKey, awsSecretKey, $region);
//pipeline_id – some unique key from ET, we can find it in aws dashboard
$pipelineId = '1375815121446-2s7ven'; //$video_file = our uploaded file on s3.
$elastic_input = array('Key' => $video_file); 

//next comes presets. You can find all available sets here http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/developerguide/create-job.html 
$elastic_output[] = array(
    'Key' => "hls_2000M",
    'PresetId' => '1351620000001-200010', 'SegmentDuration' => '10'
);
$elastic_output[] = array(
    'Key' => "hls_1500M",
    'PresetId' => '1351620000001-200020', 'SegmentDuration' => '10'
);
$elastic_output[] = array(
    'Key' => "hls_1000M",
    'PresetId' => '1351620000001-200030', 'SegmentDuration' => '10'
);
$elastic_output[] = array(
    'Key' => "hls_600M",
    'PresetId' => '1351620000001-200040', 'SegmentDuration' => '10'
);
$elastic_output[] = array(
    'Key' => "hls_400M",
    'PresetId' => '1351620000001-200050', 'SegmentDuration' => '10'
);
$elastic_playlists = array(
    'Format' => "HLSv3",
    'Name' => "playlist",
    'OutputKeys' => array('hls_2000M', 'hls_1500M', 'hls_1000M', 'hls_600M', 'hls_400M')
);
$outputKeyPrefix = $unique_string . "/"; //our playlist location will be:
$playlist = "https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/{s3_bucken_name}/" . $outputKeyPrefix . "playlist.m3u8";
//let's create new job for transcoding and get job_id
$elastic_result = $et->createJob($elastic_input, $elastic_output, $pipelineId, $outputKeyPrefix,
$elastic_playlists);

//job_id = $elastic_result['Job']['Id'];
//Finally, we can use cron job to get job status by job_id 
//PHP example:
$region = "eu-west-1";
$et = new AWS_ET(awsAccessKey, awsSecretKey, $region); $status = $et->readJob($job_id);
$text = $status['Job']['Status'];
//if $text == “complete”, then job done!