LATEST ARTICLES
Product updates · 2 min read
New release and features: September 2020
Read about the new features we have just released to our customers!
Doug Sillars · September 7, 2020
Tutorials · 3 min read
Creating private videos
There are videos that you want to share with the whole world, but for other videos, you might want to restrict the audience to just a handful of people, or maybe even just one person. In this tutorial, we'll use the private video token to ensure that each view can only be watched in a unique session, and cannot be shared.
Doug Sillars · September 7, 2020
Tutorials · 7 min read
Tutorial: video player customisation
api.video, in addition to fast video encoding, streaming and storage, has a fully customisable player that allows you to have greater control over how your video is presented. In this post, we'll go through all of the possible customisations for the player.
Doug Sillars · August 28, 2020
Video trends · 6 min read
Responsive video delivery
I'm often asked, "why should I stream video? Can't I just add the mp4 to my page and be done with it?" The answer is that yes, you can just do this, but it comes at a price to your users. If you add a 1080p video to your website - all your users, no matter the screen size or network throughput, must watch the 1080p video. You want to make your video responsive!
Doug Sillars · August 20, 2020
Tutorials · 6 min read
Analytics with api.video
How many people came to see my video? What can I learn about them? Enter api.video’s powerful video analytics API. Using the API, we can transfer all of the view data into our favourite database, and learn about the viewers of our videos.
Doug Sillars · August 13, 2020
Video trends · 5 min read
Delivering live video: Streaming vs. WebRTC
At api.video, our video streaming solution uses HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) to live stream video. Another technology we are frequently asked about is WebRTC streaming. In this post, we’ll look at the features and advantages of both, and the primary applications that they are suited for.
Doug Sillars · July 28, 2020
Product updates · 3 min read
api.video Funding Announcement
We just raised $5.5M! What does that mean for our developer community?
Doug Sillars · June 25, 2020
Product updates · 3 min read
Announcing our new video player
Our new player is rewritten from the ground up, built on top of the video.js architecture. In addition to the new sleek look of the player, there are a lot of new features that we would like to share with you (chapters, Picture in Picture, Live DVR and more!).
Doug Sillars · May 29, 2020
Tutorials · 3 min read
Create a Live Stream
Live streaming your content is a great way to connect with your audience. In this tutorial, we'll walk through he steps you need to follow to set up a video livestream.
Doug Sillars · May 4, 2020
Video trends · 4 min read
Creating unique video dashboards for individual users
Problem: We have many teachers uploading videos, and we want each teacher to see only their videos on their dashboard. Solution: We make use of api.video’s tagging feature on our backend.
Yitzi · April 30, 2020