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Video observability

Published on May 7, 2020 (almost 4 years ago)

What is Video Observability?

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons8 min readVideo education

An observable system allows the operator to infer the functioning of a system with just knowledge of its outputs. “Video Observability” describes the monitoring of complex video streaming platforms.

Live streaming decision tree

Published on April 15, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Intro guide: How to figure out which live streaming platform to use and why

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich9 min readVideo education

Check out this guide if you're new to live streaming or just starting your research. We compare some of the most well-known live streaming platforms, including YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, and more.

RTMP broadcasting apps for iOS

Published on March 27, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Guide to RTMP live streaming apps for iOS

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri8 min readVideo education

This is a guide to RTMP streaming. The post will show the review of the top 11 iOS to RTMP server streaming apps including Wirecast Go, Broadcast Me, and more.

Live interactive video like hq

Published on February 13, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

How to Build Interactive Live Video (remember HQ Trivia?)

Steve Heffernan
Dylan Jhaveri
By Steve and Dylan10 min readVideo education

Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.

I will find you and I will pause you

Published on January 23, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

<video autoplay> Considered Harmful

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri4 min readVideo education

The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.

A selection of video frames from "Tears of Steel" showing subtitles in a variety of languages.

Published on January 17, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Subtitles, Captions, WebVTT, HLS, and those magic flags 🤔

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff17 min readVideo education

Join Phil on a journey exploring the modern technologies that underly captions and subtitles in online streaming, including HLS, WebVTT, and some magic flags you can set in your HLS manifest!

Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting

Published on November 25, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readVideo education

Your guide to Mux Simulcasting. Learn how to help your users broadcast to Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Periscope and more over RTMP.

Introducing HowVideo.works

Published on October 16, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

Introducing HowVideo.works

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readVideo education

We’re excited to introduce HowVideo.works. It explains key concepts, and processes of modern online video plus, shows how all those pieces work together.

A Quick Intro To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video

Published on September 26, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

A Quick Intro To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video

Salar Khan
By Salar Khan4 min readVideo education

A quick intro about working with video for the first time and figuring out how HLS streaming works.

White Paper: 7 Tips to improve Live Streaming

Published on September 5, 2019 (over 4 years ago)

White Paper: 7 Tips to improve Live Streaming

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff21 min readVideo education

Today alongside our friends at Touchstream, Datazoom, and Fastly, we’ve published a white paper packed full of tips to help you stream huge scale events successfully. Unfortunately, while writing the ...