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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It is hard to find a good application to manage your files and folders on S3 Amazon for MacOSX users. CrossFTP Pro is luckily one of them and believe me, I tested quite a few, including Cyberduck, Transmit and others. Therefore, I think this is an excellent moment to create a video tutorial to [...]
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: Rich media plugin for Joomla 1.5
It is so far! We just launched our very own commercial plugin for Joomla “S3Media Pro” which, apart from regular media, also supports video and audio from your S3 Amazon account, including expiring URLs to protect you media against leeching and unauthorized sharing as we discussed in S3 Amazon: Protect files against unauthorized use.
The official [...]
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: Protect files against unauthorized use
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 URLs, 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, [...]
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