Video for the Web 2020 and Beyond

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about the future of video for the web! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. 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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