Video tutorials and articles on podcasting, videocasting, video channels and content management
Video.js vs JW Player is a comparison between both video audio players, showing their advantages and disadvantages. For over 11 years, I worked with JW Player and shipped it with my WordPress plugin and Joomla extension under the name S3Media Stream. Since 2019, I use video.js because I got disenchanted with JW Player s license policies ... Read more
Subtitles on Facebook may fail to show up in your video for several reasons; One is that the Always Show Captions is turned Off in your Facebook account, the other is that the subtitles you uploaded are not compatible. Format of subtitles on Facebook Starting with the last problem, subtitles on Facebook must be in ... Read more
With HTML5 you can embed a video without the need to install a player. This tutorial explains how to embed a video starting with a simple example, to end with multilingual subtitles and advanced options. You will be able to use the embedding code below in practically any cms or html website. Content management systems ... Read more
When your audio plays fine on your computer but not on mobiles or tablets, chances are that something is wrong with the phase of the audio. This often happens when audios from different sources are mixed, but it can arrive with single source audios as well, when using an external microphone on a camcorder, for ... Read more
Update 30 July 2022 What bitrate to use for HLS adaptive streaming video is a question many people struggle with. Bitrate (or “Bit rate” in proper English) is the amount of bits needed to produce a second of video footage. In this tutorial we try to give you the ideal bitrate to use per video ... Read more
Update 1 August 2022 The GDPR (General data protection rules), you ve heard about that by now, no? A lot of website owners are quite nervous about GDPR, me included, because it is complex and quite some folks who call themselves experts state rumors for facts, which adds to the confusion. Reading the legal requirements is not ... Read more
Chrome 64 and Safari 11 plan to punish misuse of Autoplay for video and audio on short term. What kind of misuse do they actually mean? The advertising industry has to fight constantly against our ability to ignore banners, text ads etc. So, they seek new ways to get their messages across and some of those, ... Read more
How to regulate Digital Rights Management (DRM) for streaming video raised many heated debates over the years and it looks like it ended in a bad deal. On the one hand, we have the civil liberty of the internet, on the other hand the rights of authors to protect their creations. On 18 September 2017, ... Read more
If you need a soundtrack for your videos that isn’t predictable or harmonic in the classic sense, then you may want to try out a sound generator. There are quite a few of them around on the internet and I tested several for my art videos but the sound generators created by Dr. Karlheinz Essl ... Read more
RTMP streaming is obsolete as of end December 2020 but we keep it posted as a piece of history. In this tutorial we embed RTMP streaming with HLS adaptive streaming fall-back using JW Player 7.9.3 This tutorial is a follow-up of RTMP with HLS adaptive streaming fall-back on AWS Part 1 which explains the preparations to ... Read more