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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about the future of video for the web! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. 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 27:48 - Services Roundup |