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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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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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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Video Player for hosted videos
I'd like to add videos for a webpage, but I don't want to use Youtube or any other site to host them, i'd like to host them on my own server. what are some good tools availible for video players on a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to add embedded youtube videos to my website sitemap?
The goal is to make embedded youtube videos appear in video search results as part of my website.
I searched very extensively how to do this; I found through google some articles that claim that it's ...
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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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Are there any WordPress plugins for embedding YouTube videos?
A quick search on WP came up with some outdated plugins and some with no screenshots.
I specifically need to embed playlists; interested in screenshots if you can share.
Thanks!
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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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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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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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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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What are my options for Private Video Hosting? [closed]
I have a client that basically wants YouTube between a login screen. I know that YouTube offers private video hosting but this service is restricted to 25 users.
Question: I am in the need of ...
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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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Youtube - preventing ads of my competitors on my videos
I want to start and upload to youtube every day a new video for my commercial use.
The videos are suppose to serve existing clients and potential clients and are given free to everyone .
My problem ...
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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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Video for an ads-driven web-site
I have a website, wich i will fill with a bunch of useful videos.
I've implemented an ads rotation engine for articles and will do so for videos.
The next milestone is to decide, how video will be ...
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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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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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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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How can I get my site's existing flash videos to work on the iPad?
My website has a number of instructional videos that would be very helpful to be viewable on an iPad.
The video player is SWF, and the video itself is FLV.
Questions:
Can I replace the flash ...
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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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Encoding settings for HTML5 video
What is the best, free way to encode video for the new HTML5 video in browsers. I want to encode video in WebM, H264 and Ogg.
I have looked at FFMPeg and it seems to be able to do it all but the ...
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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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How to make money with video site?
What I really mean is i don't get how these smaller but still popular video/tube sites make money. They host their own videos not embedded ones. How do they afford the bandwidth? if bandwidth is 0.18 ...
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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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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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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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IIS7 Serving .mp4s, not playable on iOS devices
I've added the proper MIME type to the server, made sure it applies to not only the specific site but even the all of server's sites.
The file is accessible and playable in my browser (Chrome) but ...
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How to create a video-on-demand service
I want to sell private video content on my website.
What is the best way to create an online video-on-demand service with this requirements:
The video must be private and secure
Analytics
Must use ...
