Panda is an open source solution that handles uploading, encoding & streaming videos.

All the process is completed via an elegant REST API.

Panda is designed to run in the cloud using Amazon’s array of web services.

The application runs on a customised EC2 instance with everything pre-installed, including FFmpeg and an plethora of codecs.

SimpleDB is used to store all of data for video, encoding, accounts and encoding profiles. Uploaded and encoded video files are then stored on S3.

Other features of Panda:

• Everything contained within one elegant Merb application.
• Support for FLV, h264 for Flash, iPhone formats & more.
• Panda gem for painless integration with Ruby on Rails and Merb.
• Lovely little admin dashboard for managing your videos.

By default, Panda uses the JW FLV player but you can switch to any other video player easily.

iRadeo is a free online radio application that can be used to stream MP3 / WAV files.

This online radio application automatically detects and streams the files that are uploaded to a specified directory.

One great feature of iRadeo is the embedding support which lets your visitors stream your radio via a simple JavaScript code.

Features of this free online radio script:

• Streams – Supports both MP3 and WAV file formats
• Auto-Detects – Auto detect MP3 file information through the ID tags (both ID3v1 and ID3v2) and will display in the player
• Customization – Easy to customize through a single CSS file
• Embed – Easly allow listeners to embed your player on their site with just few lines of code
• Shuffle – Option to allow files to stream randomly (no file from same single artist or album will be played twice in a row)
• Limit Skips – Option to limit number of skips allowed per session.
• Auto-Play – Option automatically start streaming once page is loaded

iRadeo is coded with PHP and uses the SoundManager 2 JavaScript sound API (see WRD post) for the controls.

MP3 Player is an open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily.

It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files. Here are the versions:

• mini
• normal
• maxi
• multi
• js