May, 2011

• 11 May

  Encoding for Adaptive Streaming

  Here are the slides from the Encoding for Adaptive Streaming workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East, on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Click below to download the files.

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• 10 May

  Encoding for iDevices

  Here are the slides from the Encoding for iDevices workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Click below to access the download link.

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• 10 May

  Download Slides from Encoding for Flash, Mobile and HTML5 Workshop

  Here are the slides from the Encoding for Flash, Mobile and HTML5 workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East Monday, May 9, 2011. Here’s the agenda.

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• 10 May

  Download Slides for How to: Encoding for HTML5

  Here are the slides from the Encoding for HTML5 workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Click below to access the download link.

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• 9 May

  Video Quality of UGC and Inexpensive OVP Sites

  This article contains the videos that I encoded for an article I wrote for OnlineVideo.net. Specifically, I encoded video on five UGC sites, YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, DailyMotion and Metacafe, and VideoPress, which is the fee-based video publishing option available to WordPress users. After uploading the videos, I embedded them using each web site’s players in this article. Here they are: …

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• 6 May

  Webcasting at HoustonFest in Galax this weekend via LiveStream

  HoustonFest is a festival in Galax to honor a musician, soldier and fireman killed in a motorcycle wreck in 2010. I’m (Jan Ozer) producing the webcast. Here’s the feed from LiveStream, and some earlier clips available on-demand.   Watch live streaming video from houstonfestgalax at livestream.com houstonfestgalax on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

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• 6 May

  SLC Releases Book: Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5

  This book is for anyone seeking to efficiently produce high quality video for streaming over the Internet or playing on Apple and other mobile devices. It provides detailed recommendations regarding which platforms to target and the appropriate configurations for producing streaming files and files for distributing via iTunes, with extensive comparisons of the most popular streaming encoding programs. It also discusses considerations for choosing whether to distribute video from your own site (or the Cloud) or whether to host your videos on user generated content sites or online video platforms. There’s a chapter on choosing the best tools and workflow for live event production, along with chapters detailing how to accelerate encoding on multiple-core workstations and LAN clusters and various tools for analyzing and debugging streaming video files.

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April, 2011

• 18 April

  HTTP Live Streaming Gains Momentum

  HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is an adaptive streaming technology created by Apple for streaming to iDevices, and submitted by the company to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for more general use. Over the last two months, both Google and Adobe have added HLS support to key products in their portfolio, which probably means that other mobile vendors, like BlackBerry, …

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• 11 April

  Book Excerpt: Choosing an Online Video Platform (OVP)

  Here’s an except from my (Jan Ozer) new book, Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5. You work with an OVP the same way you work with a UGC site: you upload the file to the service; it encodes and supplies a player and embed code. Regarding the player, most vendors offer the ability to create a branded player …

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• 11 April

  Adobe Announces Creative Suite 5.5

  Thanks to colleague Tim Siglin for interviewing the Adobe folks.

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