Jilion Blog: Sublime Video adds Auto Embed, Social Sharing, Cue Zones & YouTube Integration

“The free Embed add-on allows your audience to easily share your videos by embedding them into their own sites or elsewhere on the web. However, like any other manual embed solution, this requires you to create a “special” HTML page and keep it in sync with the video you want to make embeddable. Let’s be honest, that’s an annoying and repetitive task!

SublimeVideo features: the SublimeVideo YouTube integration, and how easy it is to play any YouTube video with your own SublimeVideo player.

A lot of you asked for cue points support. Today we are pleased to introduce our new Cue Zones add-on, which allows to handle cue points in a more powerful way.”

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Introducing: Simian’s State-of-the-Art Video Player and Enhanced Presentation Options

“State-of-the-Art Video Player & More:

Simian takes video playback to the next level with a sleek, brandable design that comes complete with cross-platform compatibility that supports HTML 5 and has Flash and QuickTime fallbacks for non-compliant browsers. For optimal viewing, videos now automatically adapt to any browser and screen size.”

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Chrome updates its Beta build to include improved HTML5 video support, plugin-free real-time audio

“Key to the update is improved audio and visual capabilities  Among the upgrades is ‘track’ support for HTML 5 video playback, which Google states will allow for simple addition of video overlay features such as captions and subtitles. Also included in the new Chrome Beta is the addition of the MediaSource API, which allows for adaptable video playback. This will help those streaming on connections that can vary in quality still watch their video, without what the company calls ‘excessive buffering.’”

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Windows 8 Secrets: Internet Explorer 10 will Ship with Adobe Flash Within Windows

Two years ago, Microsoft declared that the future of video on the web would be powered by HTML 5. Today, however, a lot of web video content is still delivered via Adobe Flash technology. So, in a somewhat surprising move, Microsoft is integrating Flash directly into Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 and doing so in a way that does not undermine the safety and reliability of the Metro environment.

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10 HTML 5 Video Players | SpyreStudios

“With so many options of video players out there, it’s hard to choose which application will be best for you. I would suggest keeping things simple and avoiding future headaches of video player upgrades, new features, and bug fixes. Stick with an online based video player that will take care of all of that for you and make your job easier.”

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The Vid.ly universal video service is now available for Encoding.com customers! | Blog

“The vid.ly universal video service is now available within the Encoding.com UI, Watch Folder, and API. All prepay or monthly Encoding.com customers can now chose the new video preset ‘vid.ly’ to give this new innovative and powerful new service a test spin.

 

What is vid.ly?

Vid.ly is a universal video service delivered within a single short url and embed code.The vid.ly service seamlessly integrates a HTML5 video player, Flash video player, transcoding, storage, delivery, and device detection. When you chose the vid.ly preset within the Encoding.com UI, Watch Folder, or API we automatically transcode your source video into 24 different video formats and create 5 thumbnails. When processing is complete, we deliver a short url and embed code via email or a XML http post. When the embed code is rendered within a HTML page we use browser or device detection to deliver the appropriate video format (H.264, Ogg, WEBM, or a Flash fallback) If a mobile device visits the short url directly we will use a powerful device detection to deliver the best quality viewing for experience for thousands of feature phones, popular tablets, and all major smart phones.”

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MediaStream Processing API – Draft Proposal

“Abstract - A number of existing or proposed features for the Web platform deal with continuous real-time media:

 

• HTML media elements
• Synchronization of multiple HTML media elements (e.g. proposed HTML MediaController)
• Capture and recording of local audio and video input (e.g. proposed HTML Streams)
• Peer-to-peer streaming of audio and video streams (e.g. proposed WebRTC and HTML Streams)
• Advanced audio APIs that allow complex mixing and effects processing (e.g. Mozilla’s AudioData, Chrome’s AudioNode)”

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