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Subtitles on Facebook don’t show in my video

Subtitles on Facebook may fail to show up in your video for several reasons; One is that the Always Show Captions is turned Off in your Facebook account, the other is that the subtitles you uploaded are not compatible. Format of subtitles on Facebook Starting with the last problem, subtitles on Facebook must be in … Read more

How to embed a HTML5 video on your site

With HTML5 you can embed a video without the need to install a player. This tutorial explains how to embed a video starting with a simple example, to end with multilingual subtitles and advanced options. You will be able to use the embedding code below in practically any cms or html website. Content management systems … Read more

How to repair a badly phased audio

When your audio plays fine on your computer but not on mobiles or tablets, chances are that something is wrong with the phase of the audio. This often happens when audios from different sources are mixed, but it can arrive with single source audios as well, when using an external microphone on a camcorder, for … Read more

What bitrate for HLS adaptive streaming video?

Update 30 July 2022 What bitrate to use for HLS adaptive streaming video is a question many people struggle with. Bitrate (or “Bit rate” in proper English) is the amount of bits needed to produce a second of video footage. In this tutorial we try to give you the ideal bitrate to use per video … Read more

GDPR, do you need to comply? Some common myths dispelled!

Update 1 August 2022 The GDPR (General data protection rules), you’ve heard about that by now, no? A lot of website owners are quite nervous about GDPR, me included, because it is complex and quite some folks who call themselves experts state rumors for facts, which adds to the confusion. Reading the legal requirements is not … Read more

Autoplay: Chrome and Safari prepare to punish misuse advertising videos

Chrome 64 and Safari 11 plan to punish misuse of Autoplay for video and audio on short term. What kind of misuse do they actually mean? The advertising industry has to fight constantly against our ability to ignore banners, text ads etc. So, they seek new ways to get their messages across and some of those, … Read more

Squashed between Digital Rights Management and Civil Liberty, who won?

How to regulate Digital Rights Management (DRM) for streaming video raised many heated debates over the years and it looks like it ended in a bad deal. On the one hand, we have the civil liberty of the internet, on the other hand the rights of authors to protect their creations. On 18 September 2017, … Read more

Sound generators for video soundtracks

If you need a soundtrack for your videos that isn’t predictable or harmonic in the classic sense, then you may want to try out a sound generator. There are quite a few of them around on the internet and I tested several for my art videos but the sound generators created by Dr. Karlheinz Essl … Read more

RTMP with HLS adaptive streaming video fall-back on AWS – Part 2

RTMP streaming is obsolete as of end December 2020 but we keep it posted as a piece of history. In this tutorial we embed RTMP streaming with HLS adaptive streaming fall-back using JW Player 7.9.3 This tutorial is a follow-up of RTMP with HLS adaptive streaming fall-back on AWS – Part 1 which explains the preparations to … Read more

RTMP with HLS adaptive streaming fall-back on AWS – Part 1

RTMP streaming is obsolete as of end December 2020 but we keep it posted as a piece of history. HLS adaptive streaming doesn’t work on IExplorer 11 in HTML5 mode as I discovered while testing my art site. But there is luckily a solution, namely RTMP with HLS adaptive streaming fall-back. That sounds a little … Read more

Reversed phase in audio and how to solve it

Reversed phase in audio can happen when audio devices save audio in the wrong way, resulting in a bad audio, notwithstanding everything seems to sound fine with the headphones. In my case, with the Sony HDR FX1 and a shotgun mic from Rode, one channel of the audio is each time reversed. A reversed phase audio creates problems … Read more

Flash support is dead

Update 27 September 2023 Flash is no longer activated in browsers. As this implies a serious impact for website owners using RTMP and HLS adaptive streaming videos and audios, we show you the possible options to ensure you can keep delivering video and audio to your audience. But first, to make clear what is going on, … Read more

How to fix subtitle problems in foreign languages

Subtitles in foreign languages can give strange results. Here we show how to fix various problems with a French subtitle vtt file as an example, embedded in JW Player. NOTE: JW Player 7.7 and above solved the issue with special characters, while lower versions and various other players give problems. Some languages pose no problems, but as … Read more

Building a Membership Website using Video

Building a video membership website isn’t that easy for everyone. Luckily, there are platforms available that make life easy for you. One of them is Uscreen.tv which has many options to build a powerful video- and eLearning site with paid and free subscription. It is actually much easier to set up then a WordPress or … Read more

Customize YouTube videos on your site

YouTube has various options to customize display of videos on your site. For instance, you can remove the YouTube branding and control how the player behaves. This tutorial explains how doing this in great detail. First, we start with a standard YouTube video embedding, and then address the branding removal options, followed by more customization … Read more

How to create a Vimeo Montage widget

Via Vimeo you can create a Montage widget displaying thumbnails of your videos on your site. This replaces the old Badge widget, which did more or less the same thing. When the visitor clicks on a thumbnail, it redirects to the video on Vimeo. This is different from the Hubnut, which is a fancy playlist feature which keep … Read more

Embed an HLS Adaptive Streaming video

In this tutorial, we are going to embed an HLS adaptive streaming video on a website. This tutorial is the follow up of the HLS adaptive streaming tutorial with CloudFront & JW Player, where we showed how to prepare and process videos for HLS streaming. We presume you followed that tutorial and have already processed the video segments … Read more

HLS adaptive streaming tutorial with CloudFront & JW Player

A step-by-step HLS adaptive streaming tutorial with CloudFront & JW Player in two parts. It is easier than you think. This tutorial presumes you have already an Amazon Web Services account (AWS) and a premium license of JW Player 6 or 7. The advantage of HLS adaptive streaming is that you can serve videos according to … Read more

JW Player 7 vs JW Player 6

Updated: 2 December 2016. A comparison between JW Player 7 and JW Player 6. What are the differences? Do you need to update your embedding code? Price policies and other changes explained. Updated 10 November 2015. What is the difference between JW Player 6 and JW Player 7? With JW Player 7, the company JW Player in New York clearly … Read more

Embed a YouTube video on WordPress 4.3 or higher

Embedding a YouTube video on WordPress 4.3 (or higher) is very easy. Here is a short tutorial how to accomplish this.

Update 1 June 2016: This was a review of Revostock, which has been killed off by a Patent Troll. Revostock was founded in 2006, a library which offered royalty free stockvideo, stockaudio and sound effects. It was the first to sell Adobe After Effects templates to use in video projects. Like many image libraries it contained professional and … Read more

How to make JW Player 5.10 responsive

Update: 8 September 2016. JW Player 5.10 is not responsive on its own as opposed to JW Player 6.x, but there is away to force the player to re-size according to the width of the browser window. Therefore, if you hesitate to move to JW Player 6 or 7 due to the dramatic changes in the … Read more

HLS streaming via AWS and JW Player 6

HLS streaming (HTTP Live Streaming) has a couple of advantages over RTMP streaming in a sense that it can circumvent corporate firewalls and proxies and it plays on most mobile devices and desktops. RTMP streaming does not work on mobiles at all since it needs Flash, although JW Player has a HTML5 fallback method for mobiles. … Read more

Google says Responsive Web Design is a must

Google ranks websites higher if they have a responsive design, meaning a theme or template that enhances the user experience on both desktop and mobile devices by scaling according to width. Therefore, you cannot ignore this if we want to keep at least the same ranking as before. After all, if your competition creeps up, … Read more

What is your real ranking in Google?

Many website owners do not realize that when they use Google, it displays a search result according to their previous search history. As a result, the listing you see is not the same as the listing everyone else sees. So, how do you know where your page actually ranks for a certain keyword? There is a neath … Read more

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Phil on How to embed a video from Vimeo in WordPress without iFrameCrazy, but 9 years on I'm still able to use this tutorial, thanks for sharing!
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Sara on Subtitles on Facebook don’t show in my videoDid work perfectly on the phone, but captions still don't show up on computer!