Video for the Web 2020 and Beyond

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

• HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)

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
• Video.js
• Custom uploader
• Using polling

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