How to Responsively Embed Videos
Embedding a video responsively whilst maintaining aspect ratio can be surprisingly difficult. At StreamShark we provide customers a simple iframe embed code snippet with a fixed width and height. This gives our customers the flexibility to embed our video player how they like. Although straight …
StreamShark Sponsoring Demuxed 2021
We’re excited to be sponsoring this year’s Demuxed 2021 video engineer conference! Demuxed is a great ‘engineer-first’ conference which focuses on a huge range of streaming topics, from encoding to playback and more. We love it because people from throughout the video industry gather together …
608 vs 708 Closed Captions for Live Streams
This post is a part of our educational series for those new to Live Captioning. When first investigating closed captions, it’s very common for many terms to be thrown around, such as “burnt-in”, “embedded”, or simply by numbers such as “608”, “708”, or even “608 …
Captions For Live Streaming – Accuracy and Cost
This post is a part of our educational series for those new to Live Captioning. In this post, we discuss how captions greatly increase the accessibility of your content and examine how accuracy and cost should be considered when selecting a live captioning solution. Promoting …
Little Shop of Stream Horrors
Come with me on an adventure through our little shop of stream horrors! Over the years we’ve cobbled together many curios from the live streaming industry. Hopefully by browsing through our shop of horrors you can learn how to avoid some of the common mistakes …
Multi-Camera Live Streaming Setup
Introduction Moving from a single camera live stream setup to a multi-camera setup is quite a large step in terms of equipment and experience needed. However, the increased production value is sure to keep your viewers more engaged. In this guide we’ll look at two …
4 of the Best Live Streaming Software Solutions
If you’re looking to live stream on a budget, then using software solutions is the way to go. There’s a bunch of different programs, so we’ve compiled a list of what we think are the 4 best live streaming software solutions out there currently. It’s …
StreamShark’s On Device Integration for Epiphan Pearl Encoders
We’re pleased to announce our latest hardware encoder management integration for the Pearl family of encoders in partnership with Epiphan Video. The custom firmware we’ve developed enables one of our deepest encoder integrations to date. Previously, an on-premise software agent was required to communicate between …
Using OBS as a Virtual Webcam on Windows and MacOS
With more and more people working from home in the current global environment, we’re seeing an increase in the number of people asking how to use OBS as a virtual webcam for video conferencing solutions such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype and Google Meet. You …
Integrating and Extending your Zoom Meetings with StreamShark
Using StreamShark as a Custom Live Streaming Service for Zoom Zoom Video Communications provides a remote conferencing service (Zoom) that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration. Zoom is useful for hosting interactive meetings between multiple participants, who can quickly join via their …
