6 Online Tools for Expanding Your Video Strategy. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Online video continues to be an area with huge growth and expansion for small businesses and brands. Video is such a great way to connect with users and to tell a story in a way that words or static images often can't. Thanks to advances in technology, buying equipment and producing video is easier and less expensive than ever before. The harder tasks are getting video online, serving it across platforms, and integrating it with your existing advertising strategies. Fortunately, there are some great web services and companies out there dedicated to helping business owners expand and improve their online video strategies. 1. Shooting and editing video content is only half of the battle, and we would argue that these days, it's actually the less painful half.
This is where Encoding.com comes in. 2. mDialog 3. 4. ICE Uses Seized Domains for Best Anti-Piracy Video Ever | Threat Level. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is hoping to lay a little guilt on movie downloaders by dramatizing the stark human toll BitTorrent inflicts on Hollywood boom mic operators … or something. ICE released the above 76-second public service announcement to YouTube late Tuesday, and began promoting it on 65 of the 120 domains the agency seized in its anti-piracy program “Operation in Our Sites.” Visitors to dvdcollects.com, for example, are greeted with an ICE message that the domain has been seized, and a link to the video. “The public service announcement,” ICE Director John Morton said in a statement, “will help raise awareness that American businesses, and American jobs, are threatened by those who pirate copyrighted material and produce counterfeit trademarked goods.” The public service address shows a peddler on a New York street giving away free movies he said were downloaded from the internet.
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Video on the Web. You are here: Home Dive Into HTML5 Diving In Anyone who has visited YouTube.com in the past four years knows that you can embed video in a web page. But prior to HTML5, there was no standards-based way to do this. Virtually all the video you’ve ever watched “on the web” has been funneled through a third-party plugin — maybe QuickTime, maybe RealPlayer, maybe Flash. HTML5 defines a standard way to embed video in a web page, using a <video> element. But support for the <video> element itself is really only a small part of the story. Video Containers You may think of video files as “AVI files” or “MP4 files.” A video file usually contains multiple tracks — a video track (without audio), plus one or more audio tracks (without video).
There are lots of video container formats. MPEG 4, usually with an .mp4 or .m4v extension. Video Codecs When you talk about “watching a video,” you’re probably talking about a combination of one video stream and one audio stream. There are tons of video codecs. HTML5 <video> element on Android.