The State Of HTML5 Video - Growing, But Also Kind Of A Mess
Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State ...
Flash Video Isn't Dead, It Just Pivoted
HTML5 is the future of video. Probably. Or if not HTML5, its successors. It seems that the whole web has rallied behind the desire to get rid of third-party plugins - especially closed plugins like Flash. And so every major new web browser now supports native video playback via a <video> tag. Given this climate, ...
Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript
Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it [Flash] to co-exist with HTML5. Gaming, media and data-driven applications are all done in Flash already, so in HTML5 they want to facilitate that along with all sorts of interaction and animation, ...
The Secret to Encoding High Quality Web Video: Tutorial
I like making money as much as the next guy, but the last three or four consulting clients all shared a problem so basic that I was almost embarrassed to take their money. Specifically, they came to me concerned about poor video quality, and the simple fact was that the data rate of their video ...
HTML5 Video Codec War Explodes as MPEG-LA Openly Calls for VP8 Patent Claims
The HTML5 video codec war just exploded! MPEG-LA, who you will remember holds the H.264 patent pool, just invaded Googlonia with a call for patent claims on the VP8 video codec. You will remember that Apple is a member of the H.264 owners, along with Microsoft. You might also recall that there have been some ...
Microsoft Drops 3,000 Word Reason for Supporting H.264, Fails to Mention Stake in MPEGLA
Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch, has lobbed a 3,000 word grenade at Google. The grenade is a lengthy description of why Microsoft will now support H.264 for web video in their Internet Explorer web browser and allow users to load a third-party codec for WebM. The one thing they forget to mention, was that they stand to ...
Fear and Loathing in Online Video: The Video Codec Conundrum Continues
My last post described, what Google's decision to drop H.264 from Chrome in favor of its own WebM format means for you, and concluded that this situation creates even more complexity video publishers, along with the potential of a massive increase in video publishing costs. It's been almost two weeks now since Google made that ...
Google Chrome To Drop H264 - How Will This Affect You?
Just when it appeared that the online video industry was moving toward a video standard, with H.264 video playback in HTML5 – more chaos ensued with Google's announcement of its plans to phase out support for H.264 in its Chrome browser, in favor of open source formats like its own WebM or Theora. Like shot ...
Online Video Moves: 4G Film, Mpeg-2, Acquisitions and A Blackberry On Top
Life is sweet, like a well-made dessert. But we'll have to wait until the moment before it's ready to eat to find out about that Blackberry on top. If you've got a keen mind or a sharp eye, you already know what that ominous fruit is up to. If not, it's like a chef's surprise ...
Encoding.com Offers HTML5 Preset Options for Ogg Theora, WebM VP8 on H.264
Encoding.com, one of the coolest places to do quick transcoding of video online, or online video for that matter, have just announced several new presets aimed at the HTML5 video market. This should make things easier for everyone using the service and wanting to support HTMl5 and the mess that is the codec situation at ...
Google's VP8 WebM and HTML5 - What It Means for You
Several months ago, Google bought ON2, the company behind the successful video codecs VP6 (used in Flash) and VP7 (used in Skype). Ever since the first rumors of this acquisition emerged, the online video community has speculated what this would mean for HTML5 video and its current issues around codec support. Last Wednesday, Google finally made the announcement ...
The "Reel" Deal With HTML5 Video - Not Quite There Yet
Online video is an exciting field to work in. As creator of the JW Player, I'm privileged to be at the forefront of the industry. Every week, our team receives thousands of emails from web developers regarding various bug reports, product feature requests and general thoughts about the online video space. In these emails, we've ...
Encoding Video for The Web - Encoding Webinar Replay Video
A few weeks back on May 5th, we held our very first ReelSEO webinar event titled, "Encoding Video for the Web." The webinar was a great success and we had more than 250 attendees join us for the first hour with more than 150 remaining on as we extended the Q&A session an additional 30 ...
Free Webinar - Got Questions About Encoding Video for The Web?
UPDATE - You can watch the entire webinar replay here - Encoding Video for the Web. Please join us tomorrow, May 5th at 11am Pacific, for our free webinar all about encoding video for the web. If you are producing video for the web and have any questions about video compression, and/or want to learn ...
A Baker's Dozen List of "HTML5" Video Encoding Tools
These aren't really HTML5 video encoders but they do support the two currently competing encoding/compression formats - H.264 MP4 and Ogg Theora. With that in mind it means you could use them to encode your video to formats that work with the HTML 5 video tag. I have broken this list down into one, the other ...
