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etianen / html5media

Enables <video> and <audio> tags in all major browsers.
http://html5media.info/
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Tips for easy encoding #50

Closed refda closed 10 years ago

refda commented 10 years ago

People who have an own webspace must encode the video files before uploading and using html5media. I offer a free (and without registration) service for online conversion.

After conversion a mp4 (h264 / aac), a poster (jpg) and a html file (with html5media!) is available.

http://mp4generator.reloado.com

Please give some feedback. A mention for beginners on your site would be great ;)

etianen commented 10 years ago

That's a sweet website! The live encoding progress bar is awesome!

I've linked to it from the video troubleshooting guide on the wiki: https://github.com/etianen/html5media/wiki/Embedding-video#help-my-video-wont-play

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an open-source encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a single stop for a multi-encoded web embed. Of course, I realise this is something of a step up from the current offering, so is probably a bit out-of-scope!

On 4 January 2014 18:12, refda notifications@github.com wrote:

People who have an own webspace must encode the video files before uploading and using html5media. I offer a free (and without registration) service for online conversion.

After conversion a mp4 (h264 / aac), a poster (jpg) and a html file (with html5media!) is available.

http://mp4generator.reloado.com

Please give some feedback. A mention for beginners on your site would be great ;)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/etianen/html5media/issues/50 .

etianen commented 10 years ago

Oh, and a final note... any chance you could link to the http://api.html5media.info/1.1.6/html5media.min.js version of the API? That version is practically free to host, whereas the other one costs a little per hit, so should only really be used where SSL is a must.

On 8 January 2014 10:15, Dave Hall dave@etianen.com wrote:

That's a sweet website! The live encoding progress bar is awesome!

I've linked to it from the video troubleshooting guide on the wiki: https://github.com/etianen/html5media/wiki/Embedding-video#help-my-video-wont-play

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an open-source encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a single stop for a multi-encoded web embed. Of course, I realise this is something of a step up from the current offering, so is probably a bit out-of-scope!

On 4 January 2014 18:12, refda notifications@github.com wrote:

People who have an own webspace must encode the video files before uploading and using html5media. I offer a free (and without registration) service for online conversion.

After conversion a mp4 (h264 / aac), a poster (jpg) and a html file (with html5media!) is available.

http://mp4generator.reloado.com

Please give some feedback. A mention for beginners on your site would be great ;)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/etianen/html5media/issues/50 .

refda commented 10 years ago

Thanks for answering and linking!

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an open-source encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a single stop for a multi-encoded web embed.

I think that mp4 files (with your flash fallback) are supported by all browsers. So it could be a single stop for a web embed (no need for more files = more space / more work for webmasters).

Or are there other reasons?

Oh, and a final note... any chance you could link [...]

I've changed the link.

For later improvements: Please install a (maybe free from startssl.com) ssl cert on your own server and publish a link for the latest version. Example:

//api.html5media.info/latest/html5media.min.js

(latest version / ssl selectively)

etianen commented 10 years ago

A good reason for providing the multi-encoding open source embed is that it's a really fast experience for the end user, with no need to download and initialize a flash player. Yeah, it's more storage and effort, which is why a one-stop multi-encoding tool would be a killer product.

The issue with the SSL cert is that I've actually serving the API files using a global CDN (Clouflare), which is extremely cheap for HTTP traffic, but more expensive for HTTPs. It would increase my hosting costs by $20 a month, which doesn't sound like a lot, but is still money from my own personal budget. The Google app engine SSL is free for low volume, which has been sufficient for the small amount of SSL traffic experience so far (it's almost overwhelmingly HTTP-only).

On 8 January 2014 10:50, refda notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for answering and linking!

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an open-source encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a single stop for a multi-encoded web embed.

I think that mp4 files (with your flash fallback) are supported by all browsers. So it could be a single stop for a web embed (no need for more files = more space / more work for webmasters).

Or are there other reasons?

Oh, and a final note... any chance you could link [...]

I've changed the link.

For later improvements: Please install a (maybe free from startssl.com) ssl cert on your own server and publish a link for the latest version. Example:

//api.html5media.info/latest/html5media.min.js

(latest version / ssl selectively)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/etianen/html5media/issues/50#issuecomment-31821671 .

etianen commented 10 years ago

Hello again,

I've recently upgraded the hosting for the html5media CDN. It should now be possible to link to the html5media script using the following protocol-relative script tag:

<script src="//api.html5media.info/1.1.8/html5media.min.js"></script>

This will serve the script over HTTPS if the page itself was served over HTTPS. Otherwise, it'll serve over HTTP (or SPDY, if the browser supports it!)

Best,

Dave.

refda commented 10 years ago

Hello, thanks for updating this post!

Could you please add also a path for the latest version? For example:

<script src="//api.html5media.info/latest/html5media.min.js"></script>

I've changed the code ( http://mp4generator.reloado.com/ ).

etianen commented 10 years ago

Having a path for the latest version might not be such a good idea. It would make it impossible to add any sort of long-lived browser cache to the script (which is critical for a CDN resource). It would also make it impossible to introduce and backwards-incompatible changes into the script, which would stunt future development.

Releases to the script are actually very rare, however, and are typically just minor bugfixes.

On 18 April 2014 17:11, refda notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello, thanks for updating this post!

Could you please add also a path for the latest version? For example:

I've changed the code ( http://mp4generator.reloado.com/ ).

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/etianen/html5media/issues/50#issuecomment-40820653 .

refda commented 10 years ago

OK, then everything is clear ;)