Video Channels/Networks
Essential news, reviews, general info, How-To’s and workarounds related to video channels like YouTube, Vimeo, VideoJug and others. Every channel has it’s own requirements and we explain what method to use to get the best results. Since Brightcove only works with the film industry and VOD services these days, we no longer cover its service.
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Here you see how you can create expiring urls to protect your files from leeching and this time we work with CloudBerry Explorer Pro, the competitor of S3 Browser. The Pro version does not differ from the free version when it comes to creating expiring url’s, but the free version expires after some time and [...]
S3 Amazon: How to embed video in your site
You want to embed video or audio from S3 Amazon into your site? This article tells you how to deal with the code involved to get your videos and audios up and running. You can use this code in practically any cms or regular website. Now, for content management systems like Joomla, Wordpress or Drupal, [...]
S3 Amazon: how to sign up and connect to the server -Revised
In this article I explain how S3 Amazon works related to video and audio. As I already wrote in my previous article, S3 is primarily a storage facility with little software on board. Luckily, there is some good third party software around that extends the service in a quite spectacular way. But let me first [...]
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 [...]
Video channels on Vimeo
Why are video channels on Vimeo so great? Because you can create several channels under the same account, unlike YouTube where you have to create a separate user per channel with login an password. Also, on Vimeo you can change the name of your channel at any time while YouTube channels are fixed. Imagine, you [...]
How to embed Vimeo’s Badge widget
The badge widget of Vimeo shows thumbnails of your video collections on your post or page. Once embedded on your site, just like the HubNut widget, when you change settings in Vimeo, the changes reflect on your pages immediately.
Selecting and customizing your widget
Go to www.vimeo.com and log into your account. At the top navigation on [...]
YouTube doubled the size for uploads
YouTube announces that as from today, the upload for standard videos doubles from 1GB to 2GB, making it possible to upload bigger videos at higher resolutions.
New features
In addition, the YouTube team’s implemented new features to make it easier to show your HD videos on your site or blog by appending &hd=1 at the end of [...]
How to embed Vimeo’s HubNut widget
Vimeo has several ways to import video onto your site. The badge widget displays thumbnails of your videos from Vimeo while the HubNut widget is a slider with videos. The great thing with both widgets is that if you add videos or change them, this is automatically updated on your site or social network. In [...]
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.
HD art video on YouTube
I uploaded a heavy art video on YouTube today and the result was really stunning in HD mode ! I was even surprised about the playback rate. Ok, it stutters a little bit here and there, but on the whole, HD on YouTube is becoming a good experience. No wonder Cnet was so excited about [...]
YouTube goes GoogleAdsense: Promoted videos
YouTube offers Promoted videos since about half a year ago and it works more or less like GoogleAdsense. The idea is to promote your own video and put it in front of other videos by paying for certain keywords per click. In other words, promoted videos show up in search results before all other videos, [...]
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 [...]
HD video on the web is not all sunshine - revised
The big problem with HD video is that it is heavy and therefore it can present problems for viewers with slow computers. And then there is the issue with slow connections. If you live in the United Kingdom, watching HD videos with DSL is not such a great experience. Stuttering frames, full stops for minutes [...]
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 [...]
How to add a logo watermark on your video
There are 2 convenient ways to brand your videos with a logo watermark. Method 1 is adding a watermark during publishing. Method 2 embeds a watermark in post production before rendering the final video. Both have advantages and disadvantages which are explained here:
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