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That's a sweet website! The live encoding progress bar is awesome!

I've linked to it from the video troubleshooting guide on the wiki:
https://github.com/etianen/html5media/wiki/Embedding-video#help-my-video-wont-play

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an open-source
encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a single stop for a
multi-encoded web embed. Of course, I realise this is something of a step
up from the current offering, so is probably a bit out-of-scope!

On 4 January 2014 18:12, refda [email protected] wrote:

People who have an own webspace must encode the video files before
uploading and using html5media. I offer a free (and without registration)
service for online conversion.

After conversion a mp4 (h264 / aac), a poster (jpg) and a html file (with
html5media!) is available.

http://mp4generator.reloado.com

Please give some feedback. A mention for beginners on your site would be
great ;)

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Oh, and a final note... any chance you could link to the
http://api.html5media.info/1.1.6/html5media.min.js version of the API? That
version is practically free to host, whereas the other one costs a little
per hit, so should only really be used where SSL is a must.

On 8 January 2014 10:15, Dave Hall [email protected] wrote:

That's a sweet website! The live encoding progress bar is awesome!

I've linked to it from the video troubleshooting guide on the wiki:
https://github.com/etianen/html5media/wiki/Embedding-video#help-my-video-wont-play

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an
open-source encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a
single stop for a multi-encoded web embed. Of course, I realise this is
something of a step up from the current offering, so is probably a bit
out-of-scope!

On 4 January 2014 18:12, refda [email protected] wrote:

People who have an own webspace must encode the video files before
uploading and using html5media. I offer a free (and without registration)
service for online conversion.

After conversion a mp4 (h264 / aac), a poster (jpg) and a html file (with
html5media!) is available.

http://mp4generator.reloado.com

Please give some feedback. A mention for beginners on your site would be
great ;)

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Thanks for answering and linking!

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an open-source
encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a single stop for a
multi-encoded web embed.

I think that mp4 files (with your flash fallback) are supported by all browsers. So it could be a single stop for a web embed (no need for more files = more space / more work for webmasters).

Or are there other reasons?

Oh, and a final note... any chance you could link [...]

I've changed the link.

For later improvements:
Please install a (maybe free from startssl.com) ssl cert on your own server and publish a link for the latest version. Example:

//api.html5media.info/latest/html5media.min.js

(latest version / ssl selectively)

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A good reason for providing the multi-encoding open source embed is that
it's a really fast experience for the end user, with no need to download
and initialize a flash player. Yeah, it's more storage and effort, which is
why a one-stop multi-encoding tool would be a killer product.

The issue with the SSL cert is that I've actually serving the API files
using a global CDN (Clouflare), which is extremely cheap for HTTP traffic,
but more expensive for HTTPs. It would increase my hosting costs by $20 a
month, which doesn't sound like a lot, but is still money from my own
personal budget. The Google app engine SSL is free for low volume, which
has been sufficient for the small amount of SSL traffic experience so far
(it's almost overwhelmingly HTTP-only).

On 8 January 2014 10:50, refda [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for answering and linking!

What would be incredibly useful would be if it could provide an open-source
encoded version of the video too. That way, it could be a single stop for a
multi-encoded web embed.

I think that mp4 files (with your flash fallback) are supported by all
browsers. So it could be a single stop for a web embed (no need for more
files = more space / more work for webmasters).

Or are there other reasons?

Oh, and a final note... any chance you could link [...]

I've changed the link.

For later improvements:
Please install a (maybe free from startssl.com) ssl cert on your own
server and publish a link for the latest version. Example:

//api.html5media.info/latest/html5media.min.js

(latest version / ssl selectively)

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Hello again,

I've recently upgraded the hosting for the html5media CDN. It should now be possible to link to the html5media script using the following protocol-relative script tag:

<script src="//api.html5media.info/1.1.8/html5media.min.js"></script>

This will serve the script over HTTPS if the page itself was served over HTTPS. Otherwise, it'll serve over HTTP (or SPDY, if the browser supports it!)

Best,

Dave.

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Hello,
thanks for updating this post!

Could you please add also a path for the latest version?
For example:

<script src="//api.html5media.info/latest/html5media.min.js"></script>

I've changed the code ( http://mp4generator.reloado.com/ ).

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Having a path for the latest version might not be such a good idea. It
would make it impossible to add any sort of long-lived browser cache to the
script (which is critical for a CDN resource). It would also make it
impossible to introduce and backwards-incompatible changes into the script,
which would stunt future development.

Releases to the script are actually very rare, however, and are typically
just minor bugfixes.

On 18 April 2014 17:11, refda [email protected] wrote:

Hello,
thanks for updating this post!

Could you please add also a path for the latest version?
For example:

<script src="//api.html5media.info/latest/html5media.min.js"></script>

I've changed the code ( http://mp4generator.reloado.com/ ).

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OK, then everything is clear ;)

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