在Google云端存储中使用HTML5视频标签“ src” URL的问题

Question

I'm designing/developing a simple HTML5-based webpage. But, rather than having the videos (eg MP4 and/or WEBM files) based locally on the web-server, I want to store them all in Google 'cloud-storage', by referencing them with a full URL in the 'src' attribute of a tag.

So, my first question is simply whether it's possible to derive such a reference URL, to a video file that I've uploaded into my Google acct's basic 15-GB of free storage? (Or do I need to first buy an 'official' starter unit of Google Cloud Storage?)

Secondly, could someone please point me to a tutorial or 'recipe' for how to compute such a URL, so that I can build a simple initial prototype to validate such a design approach.

TIA...

Dave

Answer 1

It's actually almost trivial (once I bit-the-bullet and registered for a 60-day free trial of "Google Cloud Platform".)

It seems those older-style URLs (full of long strings of hex-chars) are a thing of the past. That actually makes sense, since the 'bucket name' that you create to store your files in, must be "globally-unique" and becomes part of the URL.

https://storage.googleapis.com/your-bucket-name/Steve_Jobs-2mins.mp4

So, it becomes as simple as just using their 'console' tool to create a bucket, upload your file(s) into that bucket, declare each 'public/shared', and then reference the resulting URL in the 'src' attribute of your video or source HTML tag.

You can view my working example here: http://weasel.firmfriends.us/HTMLVideoFromCloud/

[ For details, you can 'view page source' on the HTML. ]

Cheers...

Dave