Oct 13Web App ‘n’ Widget Frenzy

• By Carl Crawley in News, Technology, Web,
• tagged sailing, Volvo Ocean Race and Web Design

It has most definately been a busy ole month in the development department here at OC Vision.

We’re currently working on an Equine Insurance Web-App which is due to launch in November, just finished an OS X widget for Mike Golding Yacht Racing, another 2 widgets in the pipeline and a Web App for Puma Ocean Racing just launched!

We’re very pleased with http://media.pumaoceanracing.com - our latest web-app to hit the interweb! It is simply bursting with exciting technologies such as ‘Distributed Storage’ (from the great guys at Amazon S3), Video Streaming and Live Conversion technologies from the guys over at SesameVault (http://www.sesamevault.com) and all built on a Ruby on Rails Platform.

The site is a media portal for the Puma Sponsored ‘Il Mostro’ Volvo 70 currently taking part in the Volvo Ocean Race which started last weekend. It allows registered users to log in and retrieve hi-res images as well as video in multiple formats during the race.

All processing is done behind the scenes, with the media team simply uploading single image and the system takes the image, extracts IPTC/EXIF data, creates mid-res and thumbnail images and uploads it to S3 for distributed storage.

As for video, Quicktime files are uploaded using FTP and then using the secure admin panel, videos are processed and converted into MP4, Flash, 3GP and Ogg Vorbis.