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AirPlay and HDMI

December 18th, 2012. Published under Development, iOS. No Comments.

If you develop gaming or multimedia applications for iOS, then AirPlay is absolutely a must for you, almost a standard. Indeed, what could be better for a user than watching favorite videos or photos on a big screen of a plasma TV or playing advanced games using iPhone/iPad/iPod as a multi-touch joystick? AirPlay has been designed specifically for this purpose. (more…)

Screen Capture in iOS

December 12th, 2012. Published under Development, iOS. No Comments.

In a mobile application, Screen Capture is a powerful auxiliary tool to be used in a variety of tasks. In this article, we are going to look at the mechanisms used to implement this feature. (more…)

HTML5 <video> Analytics

June 14th, 2012. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

If you offer online video services, no doubt you have not once thought of video views analytics. In a Flash-based OSMF framework, there is GTrackPlugin to collect statistics on content viewing. Also, you can also use our OSMF Video Analytics.

However, if your service HTML5 based, you need a purpose designed viewing analytics. To build such a plugin, HTML5 Media API should be used. For more on this API, read this post on HTML5 player implementation. (more…)

OSMF Plugin to Save Video Playback Position

January 21st, 2011. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

In a previous post we wrote about the options to save video playback breakpoint. To our mind, the most efficient technology is sockets-based. In this article, we’ll show it to you in more detail. You’ll know how to create and run a plug-in for the existing OSMF player in order to send the current position to the server. You can download the plug-in with its source code and examples from our website labs.denivip.ru. (more…)

Flash Media Server: Resume Video from Breakpoint

January 20th, 2011. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

For media portals delivering lengthy video content (such as feature films), it may be relevant to remember when viewing was last interrupted to later offer to resume it. In this post, we’ll discuss several ways of doing it. (more…)

Flash Media Server: URLs tokenization

January 19th, 2011. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

This post continues a series of in-depth overviews on the development of Flash Media Server C + + plugins implementing a custom logic to handle user content delivery requests. Here we will discuss the RTMP URL based content tokenization. It uses an authorization plugin enabling content delivery with dynamically rather than statically generated links. This authorization plugin is often requested by video content copyright holders. (more…)

Web-Based Video Publishing

January 12th, 2011. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

As the popularity of multimedia content is growing explosively, the companies are more inclined to put such content at their Web resources. This article will brief you on the main approaches to multimedia publishing and provide details on how to configure your own video content delivery infrastructure. Most probably, you have already found yourself in a situation when you needed to publish conference materials or a managerial speech addressed to your employees or customers, on your site. (more…)

HTTP Dynamic Streaming: Configuring Web Server Cluster

December 21st, 2010. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

Video content is now ubiquitous on the Web, but sometimes user experience leaves much to be desired. We have already discussed here enabling high performance configurations to deliver video content based on Adobe Flash Media Server. Still, sometimes HTTP delivery is more efficient. In this article, we would like to give you an overview of how to build a high performance video delivery system based on NGINX and Apache Web servers. (more…)

Hot trends in Web Multimedia

December 9th, 2010. Published under Online Business, Online Video. No Comments.

In the rapidly growing online industry, multimedia content is really skyrocketing. As content consumption grows on the Web, more content is published at a variety of online resources. Web media technologies are constantly improved to generate more content (e.g., new P2P and security tools are emerging) and to attract new publishers, previously unaware or uninterested in online presence. This article, we will address major current trends in the multimedia industry.
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Analytics is now video, social and web

November 22nd, 2010. Published under Online Business, Web Analytics. No Comments.

This presentation about three directions of web analytics evolution is made with Acrobat.com.
Web analytics is very old “must be” part of almost all online projects. But still often web analytics usage lacks of business understanding and stays only for technical pageview tracking. In case of wise approach web analytics could be your strong advisor in the ocean of noise. It requires some actions from you, at least to determine your goals and metrics for success in online business even if you are not in eCommerce.
Video analytics – new direction of web analytics. It started beacuse of very rapid growth of online multimedia consumption in Internet. Visitors consume more and more content, and its analysis become more and more important as multimedia begins to be the main media of visitors interaction.
Social analytics – Internet is becoming the most important marketing channel. Effective products and services promotion is impossible about wise Internet channel strategy. And good performance in Internet is impossible without Socail Media taking into account.
We will be glad to work with you about your online business optimization.