Video for the Web 2020 and Beyond

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats - Een podcast door Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers

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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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