In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about the future of video for the web!
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Show Notes 08:19 - Scott’s Background in video
Started editing in middle school
Worked professionally as an editor and production assistant for magazine
Created specialty flash video players
Have been hosting video content since the start of my web career
09:12 - Terminology
Transcoding - digital to digital conversion of one format to another
Ingest - bringing a video to a new facility (ie uploaded video file or data stream to server)
10:51 - Streaming vs Downloading
Streaming is basically chunks of content at a time, while download is waiting for the entire file to be downloaded before playing.
11:16 - Formats
MP4
WebM
DASH
HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
m3u8
21:35 - Players
shaka-player - https://github.com/google/shaka-player/
hls.js - https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/
dash.js - https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
video.js - https://videojs.com/
jw player - https://www.jwplayer.com/
Bit Movin player - https://bitmovin.com/docs/player
Ooyala Brightcove - https://www.brightcove.com/en/
27:48 - Services Roundup 🐴
YouTube - free
Vimeo - $
MUX - $$
Wistia -
Cloudflare - $$
JW Player - $
Cloudinary - $$$
Brightcove - $$$
Azure - $$
Bit Movin - $$
AWS - $$
46:59 - What Scott did and how/why
upchunk
Mux
Video.js
Custom uploader
Using polling
Links Basecamp
Hey
Inbox
YouTube
Wistia
Drip
ConvertKit
Vimeo
https://fronteers.nl/congres/2015/sessions/jsmpeg-by-dominic-szablewski
https://www.vidbeo.com/blog/hls-vs-dash
HLS Can I Use
youtube-dl
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Cloudflare
Mux
Framer Motion
Cloudinary
upchunk
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