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
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
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