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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…

For the past eight years, Cloudinary powered media experience for countless websites and systems worldwide by managing, delivering, and optimizing their media. That’s because Cloudinary’s technology gives you, as developers, capabilities for creating, manipulating, and transforming media on the fly with a self-evident API in the form of a URL.

Attracting visitors to engage with your product videos is an excellent way to boost clickthrough rates, and ultimately, sales. The question is, how do you generate that engagement? Playlists and clickable links come to mind, but generally they appear only after a video has finished playing. For a more captivating…

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…

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…

It’s human nature for most to want a sneak peek at upcoming content whenever possible. Think movie trailers or the “on next week’s episode” part of your favorite show. For video producers, an essential goal is to attract more views and clickthroughs. Time is precious, however, so viewers invariably…

WordPress + Cloudinary = Huge Savings in Content Publishing Times and Big Improvements in Site Performance We’re thrilled to be sharing our enhanced WordPress Plugin for seamless image and video management with the world today. Available for free to all WordPress users here, the new plugin will help…

Want to learn how to win audiences with video? At 1:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, February 25, Cloudinary will join Playmaker, Bleacher Report‘s in-house creative agency, for an Adweek webinar on improving user engagement through video. Beckley Mason, executive director of Playmaker, and Sanjay Sarathy, Cloudinary’s VP…