Vimeo, online videos, HTML5

Vimeo moves to default HTML5 player, says videos load faster | PCWorld: "Vimeo has rebuilt its video player using HTML5, the latest version of the Web programming language that is challenging Adobe Systems’ Flash player in serving up Web video. The use of HTML5, which allows certain types of videos to be played natively in Web browsers without additional software plugins, means that some content on Vimeo will load in less than a second, wrote Brad Dougherty, a senior application engineer, on the company’s blog on Tuesday.

Vimeo speeds its online videos, goes HTML5 by default | Internet & Media - CNET News: " . . . The new player also makes it easier for people sell video right from the player when teaser videos are shown. "With the addition of this 'buy now' button on the trailer, everywhere the video travels, there is an instant call to buy that comes with it," Mellancamp said ... Two thorny issues still complicate HTML5 video, though. One is digital rights management (DRM), which lets content owners encrypt video and audio to curtail copying. Another is the choice of codec -- the technology used to compress video and audio. HTML5 standardized how to send video, but didn't specify which code was to be used. Google's open-source, royalty-free VP8 and newer VP9 codecs are one option, but most of the tech industry -- especially those in the video world -- preferred a royalty-bearing standard called H.264. Google said it would eventually phase H.264 support out of Chrome, and Mozilla was a strong VP8 advocate, but H.264 won out: Google backed off its decision, and Mozilla added H.264 support by drawing on modern operating systems' built-in support. For DRM, Microsoft and Google have controversially developed a standard called Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), which already is in use for Web-based video streamed by Netflix. DRM isn't much of an issue for Vimeo, though: "Videos, whether downloaded or streamed, on Vimeo On Demand are DRM-free," the company said."

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Vimeo, indie films platform

Vimeo starts funding indie films to broaden its on demand platform — paidContent: "Vimeo is debuting its own take of film funding at the Toronto International Film Festival this week: Film makers whose feature-length movies premiere at the festival can get a $10,000 advance if they agree to distribute their films through Vimeo On Demand, the site’s paid streaming offering that launched at SXSW earlier this year."

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Time Warner Cable and other ISPs Bandwidth throttling YouTube and Vimeo video

Bandwidth throttling on Youtube and Vimeo with Time Warner Cable
"A test where one Youtube HD video and one Vimeo HD video were loaded with two different internet connections (bench marking the connections using speedtest.net before the tests) One connection was a Time Warner Cable Internet service rated for 30Mbps down, 5Mpbs up. These speeds were verified by speedtest.net. I can also verify these speeds are consistent based on things I do like download large games from Steam. The other connection was a Verizon 4G iPhone set up as a Personal Hot Spot. LTE bandwidth in my home ranges from 15-40Mbps down and 4-25Mbps up whenever I do speed tests.
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You can actually see what server Youtube will serve you video from by going to: http://redirector.c.youtube.com/repor...
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Published on Nov 20, 2012"  more info at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB8UADuVM5A

and http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/
Reference info:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/co...
https://peering.google.com/about/faq....
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~viadhi/r...

see also the YouTube streaming results at your location: http://www.youtube.com/my_speed#

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Animate your memes

Animate your memes with Vimeo creator's new project, Moonbase | The Verge: " . . . Jake Lodwick, a programmer and filmmaker, made a name for himself in tech and media circles by helping to create Vimeo and College Humor in New York. After a few years spent largely out of the public eye he's moved to San Francisco and is ready to debut his new company, Elepath, and its first public project, Moonbase: a plug and play service that aims to make it easy for anyone to create complex animations and rich media for the web without having to know a thing about coding. "When you read the Steve Jobs article 'Thoughts on Flash', it explains that Flash is no longer necessary as a browser plugin, because HTML5 can handle all the animation and interaction natively. He didn't mention that there's no replacement for the desktop authoring app known as Flash CS6. So if you want to do rich media stuff in HTML5, you need serious Javascript wizards to build it from scratch, and those people are in extremely short supply," said Lodwick, during a chat last week. "What the world needs is an easy-to-use authoring tool for rich HTML5 content. That's what Moonbase is. It's a purely visual development environment so you can wire stuff up without writing any code.". . . "


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