Video/audio service reviews
Reviews on video and audio services on the internet.
S3: News from the CloudFront! Private streaming video - revised
From now on, with CloudFront you can not only stream your own videos, you can make streaming videos private on top of that! In other words, you can have paid videos on your site or membership area without the fear of copying the video. You can do the same thing with expiring URLs but private [...]
S3: Streaming video with CloudFront
With CloudFront, you can stream your own audio and video without using any code or installing complicated server software. CloudFront is an Amazon service which works in conjunction with your S3 Amazon account (S3 AWS).
What the service basically did so far was to serve content from your S3 account to the closest server in [...]
S3 Amazon and video: introduction
A reader asked what I thought of using S3 Amazon Web Services (AWS) for serving videos , so I did some research and found this interesting enough to share with the readers because the servers of Amazon have a couple of interesting possibilities. S3 Amazone is basically a storage space that can be used to [...]
How to embed videos from Vimeo on your site
Vimeo.com has 3 standard ways to display videos directly on your website or blog. In this article, I explain how to use the standard method, Embedding. In the coming article I show the other methods. But let me first sum up the all the options so that you know what to expect.
Back up online recorded podcasts and video
Many audio- and video services offer to record podcasts or video online. The videos or audios are then saved on their server and conveniently, you get an url that you can link to in your web site. Easy and no worries, yet, there is one thing that most subscribers forget, and that is to download [...]
CNET comparison between video services
Cnet is a great source for reviews on hardware. Whenever I buy a camcorder, I first go there to look up the reviews. This time, they did an excellent comparison test with HD videos between the most important video services offering high definition video hosting: YouTube, Vimeo, SmugMug, DailyMotion, BlipTV, Source and Facebook(which is not [...]
Vimeo: the secret of good quality content
Vimeo is to my mind one of the best video networks around because it has a high concentration of creative content providers. It is not like on YouTube where if you type “art video” in the search box, you get loads of music clips or ” the art of making jam“- type videos. On the [...]
BlogtalkRadio: social, free and easy
There is a wonderful social network called BlogTalkRadio. Basically, you can record your own radio talkshow with just a phone and a computer. The service records your talk show through the phone with a number of guests/listeners (max 5) and that show is then automatically published on BlogTalk Radio. Yet, you can also publish the [...]
Viddix, a revolutionary video channel - Review
One of my students asked me yesterday what I thought of viddix.com. Since I never heard of it, I had a look at it and guess what? I was perplexed at what I saw there. This is a new revolution in video channels. No, let me rephrase this : This is THE REVOLUTION in video [...]
Embedding video & audio in WordPress - revision 2
If you want to play a video directly in your posts or pages, you cannot use the iFrame method because it doesn’t work in WordPress. iFrame is a way to import existing pages into your own page and it is frequently used by AudioAcrobat and other podcast services. The only way to make iFrame work [...]
New section with free utilities
This old post has been removed originally but I had to place it back because it had many external links. It referred to the new Free Utilities section, which in the meantime is not-so-new anymore
For the time being, all free utilities can be accessed via Free Utilities on the top navigation bar but this [...]
Comparing audio and video services
There are a lot of audio services out there, one cheaper then the other, but what is it you have to look out for? There are 7 points you need to look at when comparing services:
The audio service: what do I get?
Quality of support: mail, phone, how quick do they react?
Flexibility: Can I upload [...]
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