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With videos becoming more and more paramount for promoting online sales, we at Cloudinary Labs are building technology to help grow the business of e-commerce retailers. This series of blog posts delves into a few use cases that promise to boost retail revenue online across the patron’s browsing…

Before diving into the popular HTML5 video players, it’s essential to acknowledge the broader ecosystem of tools and technologies that complement and sometimes offer alternatives to these players. For instance, Vime stands out as an open-source media player library built with Svelte, offering a modern approach to media playback. Libraries…

Back in April, Cloudinary made available on npm an alpha version of its components library for Svelte, a release that’s a wonderful addition to Cloudinary’s suite of client-side SDKs: React, Vue, and Angular. Those three front-end SDKs offer simple yet comprehensive optimization, transformation, and…

ExoPlayer, a media player for Android, was developed and is being maintained by Google as an alternative for Android’s default MediaPlayer. Among ExoPlayer’s advantages over MediaPlayer are dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), smooth streaming, and common encryption. A major advantage, however, is ExoPlayer’s easy customization.

Originally developed for Apple, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a video-streaming protocol, supported by Android and other mobile platforms. HLS uses adaptive bitrate to adjust video quality to each viewer’s internet speed and device capabilities. Presently, HLS is mandatory for live streaming on certain mobile devices and most HTML5…

With video becoming increasingly popular, especially across social media, it’s as important as ever to ensure that your videos aren’t one of the hundreds that people just scroll on past. Toward that end, successful techniques have emerged over the last couple of years, e.g.: Overlaying a progress indicator so…

Searching for a surefire way to improve conversion rates in your e-commerce store? Then it’s time to enhance the user experience with high quality, immersive visuals without compromising performance.  E-commerce shoppers love visual media — robust product galleries, product videos, high-definition zoom-in functionality — and increasingly rely on it to…

Canvas animation is a feature of HTML5 that allows you to draw images, edit images, and erase them, on a drawing board which you set up with the <canvas> element. The canvas is a rectangle-like area on an HTML page. By default, the canvas has no border or content. You…

Searching for a surefire way to improve conversion rates in your e-commerce store? Then it’s time to enhance the user experience with high quality, immersive visuals without compromising performance.  E-commerce shoppers love visual media — robust product galleries, product videos, high-definition zoom-in functionality — and increasingly rely on it to…