Best way to store videos

[William Prothero]

Peter, 
That sounds like a good idea. What has worried me, though, is that it can be a pain to implement the code that lets the video be played on any of the many browser variations. With Youtube or Vimeo, they take care of making the video play on any browser. 

That is, unless the technology for making videos cross-platform has improved and I’m not aware of it.

Best,
Bill

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill,
> 
> You could also look at Amazon AWS S3 storage.
> 
> It’s pretty much free for the first year. Then, depending on usage, could be only a few dollars a month.
> 
> https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
> 
> Videos could then be played directly in a Livecode player control, as well as on your website. One of the benefits of the LC player is that you can program events to happen in response to particular timings set in the video—callbacks. This is great for pedagogy—synchronized subtitles, comments, animations as a video (or audio) plays.
> 
> Peter
> 
>> On Aug 23, 2018, at 12:47 PM, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> YouTube is great these days. If you take the time to become a verified
>> subscriber all the world will be revealed to you. They have many tools and
>> they re-written the whole thing, and it’s pretty good. It’s also free. You
>> can make playlists and decide what happens at the end, and add links and
>> other text.
>> 
>> After you earn your stars and are good for a while they will give you these
>> privileges.
>> 
>> And as far as video streaming, they actually appear to be the best. They
>> are so equipped with their mirror servers all over the world.
>> 
>> I used to shun YouTube for several years because of their lower quality at
>> the time but now they’ve come up to do not only great serving but live
>> streaming as well.
>> 
>> You can create extra users. And it has a better social features.
>> 
>> Vimeo streaming is still excellent but I like the extended distribution
>> that YouTube has.  And I have to pay over $100 a year to be able to upload
>> the quality I want quickly.
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:20 Tom Glod via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> just fyi......you can disable to recommened videos in the embedd code......
>>> you can also detect via java script when the video ends. so you really have
>>> more control than you think.  just got to send script to the browser .....
>>> "do in widget".
>>> 
>>> I haven't done anything crazy ...but i know that there is more control than
>>> what is obvious at first.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:12 PM William Prothero via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Folks:
>>>> I have numerous videos that I would like to play on a wordpress web site,
>>>> and in livecode. I don’t want to host these on my own server for obvious
>>>> reasons of bandwidth, support for different browsers, etc.
>>>> 
>>>> This is not a commercial project, but an educational software project
>>>> where I give it away for free. So, I would rather not pay, but I have
>>>> looked into Vimeo and the lowest rate of $7/mo could work. I’ve tried
>>>> YouTube and it has so many privacy issues. Also,  when the video ends it
>>>> displays unrelated material that would be distracting to students.
>>>> 
>>>> I understand that any free service will probably want to grab users’ info
>>>> for marketing. That’s the world we are in.
>>>> 
>>>> Buuut...... do you have a strategy that you could recommend?
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Bill
>>>> 
>>>> William A. Prothero
>>>> http://earthlearningsolutions.org
>>>> 
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