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How to Embed Streaming Video & Audio with HTML5 Fallback – using JW Player 5.6

Published on 2011-06-07 12:38:10

JW Player 5.6 is a Flash video/audio player created with Adobe Flex which has the capability to switch to HTML5 fallback mode if a non Flash browser is encountered. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to download and install JW Player and ho

How to encode a video simultaneously for web, iPhone, iPad, iPod & other handheld devices using HandBrake

Published on 2011-05-19 15:02:50

You want to ensure that everyone, or at least most people can watch your video? Then you have to create a video that works on the web and mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and other handheld devices. This is not evident and you may coun

JW Player: who is behind it? Who is Jeroen Wijering?

Published on 2011-04-20 08:14:40

Who is Jeroen Wijering,  the creator of the industry standard JW player? What is his relationship with Longtail Video Solutions?  This trailer to the documentary video from PictureThis.tv gives you an insight into the history of the most famous vid

S3 Amazon and DreamHost: a perfect marriage

Published on 2011-04-03 11:13:01

By placing all heavy files on S3 Amazon/CloudFront, you only need a lightweight solution like DreamHost for your site itself. That way you have the best of both worlds. Both services are very cheap and easy to deal with. In the past, I had my doubts

How to switch from low resolution video to HD - part 2

Published on 2011-02-23 14:36:19

In this part, which is meant for S3 Amazon account holders, we are going to focus on streaming video. Streaming has a lot of advantages, which are explained in S3 Streaming video with CloudFront.   One extra perk not discussed in that article is im

How to switch from low resolution video to HD automatically - part 1

Published on 2011-02-20 05:54:55

In this article, I’ll show you how to switch automatically from a low resolution video to HD video on your site.  Standard, the low resolution version will play and when the visitor hits the full screen button, the HD video takes over.  HD sw

Fantastic camera work: Voices from the Field

Published on 2011-02-07 05:58:41

In August 2010, myself and two other film students went to Africa to make a film for the non-profit Project Concern. I went through a lot making this film — it was a difficult first film, and a mesmerizing experience. John X Carry Voices fr

The dangers of complying with iPad and iPhone

Published on 2011-02-06 15:18:03

Many of us love to see video plugins being compatible with iPhone and iPad and up to a point that is fine. For public videos there is no problem at all, but if you want to protect your VOD- or membership videos with private streaming, you simply cann

How to improve quality of video tutorials on YouTube

Published on 2011-01-10 08:19:56

When you upload a 800×600 screen capture video tutorial to YouTube, the quality deteriorates so badly that texts in the video are hardly readable. The reason is that YouTube regards everything smaller then HD video as a free license to shrink t

Converting video to streaming MP4 for S3 Amazon with AVS Video Converter

Published on 2011-01-07 19:08:18

Some video converters do not get it right when converting video to MP4 to stream on S3 Amazon/CloudFront. Especially the cheaper converters like AVS Video Converter for Windows tend to have problems. Luckily, there is a trick to fix this problem. Her

Streaming HD Video test on S3 CloudFront

Published on 2010-12-25 09:57:17

It is a while ago since I did a test with an HD video on S3 Amazon, so I thought this might be a good moment to go for it again. As we all know, HD video on video services like YouTube, Vimeo and others play reasonably well, although they inevitably

Going West - a stunning video by Line Andersen

Published on 2010-11-16 15:32:40

Marvelous video commercial for the New Zealand Book Council which showcases the narration and animation of a book called Going West by Maurice Gee. The video is created by Andersen M Studio. This is a stunning piece of work and each aspect of the vid

Cheap Web Hosting vs. Dedicated Server

Published on 2010-11-12 07:50:38

When it comes to choosing a hosting provider for a website, there are several options. After the provider is chosen, the next step is to choose one of the many available web hosting packages. The two primary types of web hosting include dedicated ser

New categories created

Published on 2010-11-11 09:14:57

Since I write quite a lot about S3 Amazon related issues, we decided to dedicate a special category for it so that you can find everything on this subject in one place. So far, we plugged most of it in Video Channels/Networks which is a bit awkward.

S3 Cloudfront: How to setup a bucket for private streaming - revised

Published on 2010-11-09 18:07:42

To avoid problems with streaming video and audio, in particular private streaming, the way to go is to start with a fresh S3 AWS bucket without any content in it. Decide upfront which bucket is going to contain media for streaming and which one for

S3Media Stream™ to protect your video and audio on WordPress

Published on 2010-11-05 11:39:31

Sometimes, you do not want to show video or audio to everyone. Or you want to show it to everyone, but you do not want third parties to publish your media on their site. S3 Amazon combined with Private Streaming can help you with this. I wrote alread

S3: Streaming MP3 audios on CloudFront is a problem. The solution is simple.

Published on 2010-11-03 10:14:25

Streaming MP3 is problematic on S3 Cloudfront. It often does not play and you get no error message telling you what the problem is. The fastest and best way to deal with this is to convert your audio to M4a, the format used for iTunes. I know, you ar

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe - review

Published on 2010-10-02 11:39:56

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is a little handy application to transform High Definition videos into a wide range of formats on Mac and Windows. You can also convert other formats with it and generally, this works fine. The range of output formats i