Questions with the video tag should refer to creating, editing, and displaying video on electronic devices. As video capture and playback vary significantly across platforms, it would be helpful to include a search tag with the target OS or platform (e.g., Windows, Android, YouTube, Java, ...
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How HTML5 video is played in a web browser? [migrated]
I'm curious how a web browser (say Google Chrome) plays a HTML5 video. Is it the same as how images are displayed? The image is first downloaded/cached into the file system so that subsequent request ...
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What are some authentication based video hosting services?
Could anyone suggest some popular services for hosting videos if I want to create something like Netflix, where I can stream videos to signed-in users only.
I am looking for something -
That gives ...
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Which FLOSS Python CMS for video sharing in a school?
I have an university project in which we develop a video sharing system for schools. Our central use cases are as follows:
The system has to manage videos (and associated arbitrary metadata)
Where ...
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Are different resolutions of the same video stored as different files?
In websites like YouTube one is able to choose between this or that resolution for the same video. Is each resolution of that video stored as a separate file? I mean, is there a file stored in the ...
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No GUI on embedded video
I'm trying to find video hosting provider to embed a video (html5 preferred, with flash fallback would be boss), with enough settings to suit my needs : autoplay / loop / no gui.
Just the raw video, ...
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Video Hosting for Customer Uploads
I am building a page for a client of mine for a video contest. He wants the users to upload the video directly to the site then the videos be viewable.
While I can code this by hand for compatibility ...
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Prompting Facebook to embed Youtube videos from a site
On a website for a newspaper, some of our articles are video reports (embedded from Youtube) with small descriptions below. When these get shared on Facebook, perhaps when someone copies the URL into ...
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I need a chinese video service with player api [closed]
We are building a site for a company that includes several youtube videos, they also need a chinese version of the site, which cannot use youtube.
We use some functionality of the player api (to play ...
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Does HTML5 video cache the entire video before playback or does it stream?
I have an HTML5 page that plays a small video (1.5MB) with autoplay and loop enabled.
The problem is, sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds after loading the page before the video starts playing. I've ...
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How can I convert a series of images to a valid HTML5 MP4 video? [closed]
I am attempting to encode a video from an image sequence, for embedding as an HTML5 video. I have managed to encode into the WebM and OGG format successfully (so for example, it works fine in ...
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Symbolic link of file on ftp server to file on dropbox
Can I create a symbolic link from an ftp server (file on website) to a Dropbox URL? I'm trying and it's seeming to work correctly. My problem is a video isn't playing correctly on my site, but I know ...
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Hosting Video's on Youtube or a service like youtube with HTML5 / FLASH switching
We have 1000's of small product videos currently being played through a Flash player.
We want to make this product videos work on apple devices.
It's my understanding that Youtube auto switches ...
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Google's image search… but for video
The company I work for is preparing a user-submitted video contest. One problem that we're concerned about is that someone might download another video from Youtube/Vimeo/whatever and pass it off as ...
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Do videos bring more traffic than backlinks in general?
Yesterday, I had a conversion with a friend who was implementing SEO techniques on his websites a couple of years ago. He also stopped this activity since then.
He claims that relevant YouTube ...
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Is there any way out so that a video available online cannot be downloaded?
Is there any way out so that a video available online cannot be downloaded ? I have checked almost every way out and found that everything can be spoofed. So does anyone knows anything else that ...
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Sharing password-protected videos on social media
We are developing a site where users will be able to watch and download videos that they've recorded of themselves in a public event. The videos will be password protected, and will be available only ...
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How easy is it to code in-built videos?
First time poster so please don't bite my head off. Basically, I'm having a site built for me and I don't really know anything about coding but I'm not too sure if I trust my web developer. I asked ...
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Provide a YouTube videobar on my website
I want to embed a videobar (see image below) on my website. The video bar is for a playlist. I have come across a few articles outlining how to do this (such as this or this)
but all point to a page ...
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Apache DVB http video Streaming bandwidth or priority problem
I'm streaming few precompressed DVB videos from cloud. The streams are generated from VLC on "impossible" ports (such as 64085, 64086 etc) reverse proxed by Apache on port 80 and 8080.
All the ...
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Good Compression for Slow-mo Video [closed]
What's the best way to deliver super slow-motion video to the browser?
This seems to me to be a special case, because with super slow-mo video (such as 10,000 frames per second) the visual difference ...
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Flowmotion Running on Ubuntu Server [closed]
I am trying to configure Flowmotion to work on my Ubuntu Server. At present I use LAMP to serve pages from a Virtualbox installation. I will be moving this to a dedicated server but would like to ...
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Best solution for online video classes?
If I want to make a website where visitors can sign up to online video classes, which of the following options is the best solution?
1-) All the students meet the teacher(me) with TeamViewer (which ...
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Need help: Beginning Live Casting 101 [closed]
I'm tasked with setting up live webcasting of events from a small business. Nobody knows whether what they're doing will ever become big and profitable, so the cost should be low. But events will ...
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How to allow users to brodcast audio on site [closed]
Here is what i'm wanting to do. I want to have a page on my site where users can 'broadcast' audio/video using their webcam. I know some PHP so I can build this if someone can provide me some pointers ...
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Why some video posts from the same blog appear in google with thumbs, while others do not?
We own media blog - which is basically a big collection of various videos streamed through our branded player. Interesting thing is that some of our posts show up in google search results with a thumb ...
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Can I set up a local HTML5 site to stream video to a Samsung Smart Hub TV?
I have recently bought a Samsung Smart Hub TV and I'm pretty disappointed by the lack of media formats it supports via streaming. The browser should be HTML5 ready, so I wanted to ask if it's possible ...
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Online Video Platform for own servers
I need an application, similar to Ooyala, Vzaar, Brightcove, that manages & encodes all videos. The only difference, is that I want to host the software and content on my own servers, preferably ...
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Online tool to convert photos into youtube video slideshow
I'm looking for a free online tool that would allow creating photo slideshows and uploading them to youtube.
Animoto.com is a good example but only has a 30sec free option.
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Is Placing a form to video is a best practice or not [closed]
I have a product site, in which i have a page called Demo. To view this demo, i have placed a form to be filled so that i can contact them. The form contains basic questions such as Email ID, Name, ...
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Embedding video in email - possible?
Is it possible to embed video into an email that will allow the viewer to watch the video within the email itself in a consistent and cross platform compatible manner?
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Video conference/chat tool that can be embedded in own website needed
We are looking for a means (a tool, a commercial service) to enable a closed user group to start a live video conference in a browser, as part of the company website. Something like Skype, but ...
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Why google doesn't index youtube videos in sitemap?
I've created a sitemap for youtube hosted videos in my website. you can find it here.
http://www.informaincasa.it/wp-content/uploads/sitemap-video.xml
I've also created a sitemap for videos hosted on ...
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Are videos inherently good for SEO?
My business partner is convinced that having a video on a page is inherently good for SEO and will improve its ranking. I'm trying to find some evidence to confirm or deny this theory. My hunch is ...
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Adding Video To Website - Embed or Vimeo?
I have been asked to add 3 short informational videos to a new page on the company website. I am trying to figure out if it would be better to embed them directly onto the page (html5) or use Vimeo or ...
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When is progressive video preferable to streaming?
Streaming only transfers the portion of the video you are about to view so there is drastically less bandwidth used, however, YouTube has opted to use progressive video instead.
Why does YouTube use ...
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community driven video platform
I am looking for a platform to build a community-driven education video site. We already have quite a few community web-apps runing on python/django, so something based on these technologies would be ...
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Intuitive solution for a very small private video site?
I have a wordpress site for which I want to provide videos for money. I thought about using youtube: user creates an account > user pays > gets access to a private page on wordpress (with a plugin) ...
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Creating a video upload form, what is a realistic file size limit?
My page is asking users to upload their photos and videos, but I want to limit the file size. What is a realistic size limit for short video (under 30 sec) shot on a iphone or android.
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Youtube embed is blocked by corporate network, how to detect and offer an alternate self hosted version?
I have a youtube video embedded in a popup window, which works fine, but for some users within my network Youtube is blocked. What is the simplest method to offer them an alternate self hosted version ...
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Service for accepting short video clips as part of official documents?
I am looking for a service that can accept short video clips flexibly and convert to an archival format. So the process would be:
Person in the field uploads a video by:
Smartphone upload
Upload ...
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fullscreen video background script
I'm looking for a script or a tutorial that allows me to stream for example a youtube video in fullscreen, but not flash because I want it to work on mobile devices too.
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Video monetising and simple shop, platform?
I have this client that wants a single-product website.
The product is a training-video that they want to deliver virtually and optionally physically.
I usually do all the front-end design and ...
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How to create google video sitemap urls for very large video files with distinct segments?
I have a large video files about 1 hr in duration, with different sections of the video corresponding to different distinct sub topics . For example, the whole video may be about an yoga exercise ...
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Please advice a free video player for my site
Waht non-commercial (free) good video player can yous suggest in order to put on my webpage? I am doing it first time and have no idea what is now being widely used.
Thanks!
EDIT:
Is ...
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What's the magic behind the HTML5? [closed]
In the pre-HTML5 stage. We need a plugin or video container to play movie on the web. But what is the HTML5 doing, how can it play the video without any plugin?
What is the magic behind the process?
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Embedding my website's videos in Facebook?
Is there a way I can make the videos on my website embedabble in Facebook the same way Youtube's videos are?
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Video from internal network served to an externally visible web page
I am being asked if it's possible to take video from an internal IP camera and serve it to our external website like a live-feed camera.
My initial thought is that it would have to be done through ...
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Multimedia web applications that perform well
There are a few multimedia web applications like PHPMotion, ClipBucket that allow playback of multimedia files.
Beside the mentioned multimedia web applications, are there other similar multimedia ...
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Storing Downloadable Content Securely
For a site where users can purchase videos for download.
What would be the best way to store the media? Any other helpful considerations are more than welcome.
Outside the root directory?
Seperate ...
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Is Nowness.com using Flash to achieve the slideshow effect on their homepage?
The website I am trying to develop has asked for a slider much like the one on Nowness.com.
http://www.nowness.com/
The specific functionality they would like is that at the end of the slide show or ...
