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

shaka-player - https://github.com/google/shaka-player/
hls.js - https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/
dash.js - https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
video.js - https://videojs.com/
jw player - https://www.jwplayer.com/
Bit Movin player - https://bitmovin.com/docs/player
Ooyala Brightcove - https://www.brightcove.com/en/

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

Links

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Scott: Flexibility Focus Podcast
Wes: Mustie1 YouTube Channel

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