Educado Transcoding Service

Overview

This service is responsible for handling GCP trafic (uploading, downloading, etc.), transcoding and streaming. The staging and main branches are deployed to GCP Cloud Run.

• Staging: https://video-service-staging-x7rgvjso4a-ew.a.run.app/
• Main: https://video-service-x7rgvjso4a-ew.a.run.app/

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• .env file with the following variable(s):

GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path to service account key>

• .gcp_credentials.json (service account key).
• Go should be installed on your machine.
• (Optional) GoLand IDE.

Installation

• Open project in GoLand.
• Insert .env file in the root of the project.
• Insert .gcp_credentials.json in the root of the project.
• Run the following command in the terminal:

go run ./cmd/server/main.go

• The server should be up and running.

Quickstart

• Run the following command in the terminal:

go run ./cmd/server/main.go

Docker

• Build the image:

docker build -t <image-name> .

• Run the image:

docker run -p 8080:8080 <image-name>

The service should be up and running on port 8080.

Usage

• This service is desgined to work with Educado's backend.

API Reference

• Description of routes (to be added)

Known Issues

• For some reason the service cannot transcode when deployed to GCP. It works fine locally, both containerized and not containerized.

Acknowledgments

• Shout out to Carl Ryskov Aagesen for being a great mentor.