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 …
New Enterprise Feature: Viewer Home Page
We’re excited to launch our latest enterprise feature, the Viewer Home Page! Viewer Home Page allows authorized users to easily browse your organizations live and on-demand video content. In the video below we go over playlists, themes, channels, home page, global search, security and custom …
What is Transcoding? Why is it Important?
There are a plethora of technical terms thrown around in the video industry. Two of the most common terms are ‘transcoding’ and ‘encoding’. Whilst you can probably get away not knowing most of the technical details behind these terms, it’s good to have a basic …
VideoJS-VR Is Now An Official Video.js Plugin
As some of you may know we’ve been developing an open source 360º video plugin for Video.js. We’re pleased to announce that our VideoJS-VR plugin has been appointed the official Video.js 360º plugin and has migrated to the official VIdeoJS organisation and repositories. History of …
Service Update: Multi-DNS
StreamShark has recently transitioned to a multi-DNS setup. In short this update has greatly improved the reliability of the StreamShark platform in the event of an upstream DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on one of our DNS providers. Traditionally websites would use a single …
The Birth and Death of Flash
With browser support for Flash being steadily decreased and the likelihood of 2017 being the final year of Flash, I grew curious about the origins of Flash and how it got to the point of deprecation. Brief History of Flash Flash started its life in …
What is Adaptive Streaming?
This post is a part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the newbie. What is Adaptive Streaming? Adaptive streaming is a video streaming technique that detects a viewer’s bandwidth and CPU capacity in real-time and adjusts …
Understanding Codecs and Formats
This post is a part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie. Audio and Video Codecs A Codec is technology used to compress the data. Common video codecs (also called video format) include MPEG-4/H.264 …
Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie
This post is a part of our educational series for those new to streaming. There are various platforms offering services for managing and streaming Video on Demand. Using these platforms requires at least basic technical knowledge so you can setup streaming for your video(s). By the time you finish reading …
