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 …
New Feature: Real Time Viewer Stats
We’re please to announce the newest addition to the StreamShark platform, real time viewer stats! The report has been enabled for all accounts, and accessible via the button displayed in the screenshot below. The real time stats report is available for all live streams, and …
