YouTube has pretty sweet stats overlay for any video through their player. I wanted to do the same for Azure Media Services, since it has a plugin framework. You can find the code on GitHub here. Try a live demo at Codepen.io See all of my Azure Media Services tutorials here. Azure Media Services Plugin…
My goal with this video is to give an overview of what DRM is, how it works, and illustrate the history behind it so that you can understand why it is still around today. DRM is an systematic approach to copyright protection for digital goods. Its purpose is to prevent unauthorized redistribution of products and restrict the…
In the past, I’ve been posting that week’s newsletter on here nearly immediately after it went out to your emails. What I’ve decided to do recently was send out the newsletter every TWO weeks instead of each week, and now post this once a month, thereby combining the newsletters. Week 57 San Francisco Office Rents…
Join the discussion on Reddit. WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D computer graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. You will often find developers using it for games, but it is finally gaining widespread visibility across the web, and is now being used…
You can find parts 1 and 2 of this series here: Deconstructiong Night Trap Rebuilding Night Trap We’ve made a lot of progress with Night Trap this weekend. I started by further compressing the videos on the prototype site, which will allow for smaller and faster downloads, as well as quicker camera switching. I won’t…
You can find the other parts of this series here: Night Trap – switching branches Rebuilding Night Trap More progress with the HTML5 port of Night Trap A few days ago I built a quick prototype for getting Night Trap running in the browser. It’s rough, but hey, it works. Right now I am streaming the…
Unity, and Epic’s Unreal Engine, the popular middleware tools frequently used by game developers are not limited to creating compiled applications that run as an executable. Unity previously had a web player, which was a downloadable plugin that used ActiveX. Chrome killed support for NPAP (Netscape Plugin API), but announced it over one year ago.…
Test this out now For the last few months I’ve been wanting to dive into this new JavaScript framework since I saw their launch event in October of 2014. Famo.us includes an open source 3D layout engine fully integrated with a 3D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL In short,…
My peer in Chicago, David Giard, and I were at the INTX hackathon in Chcago this weekend to help developers with their video and streaming applications. During the trip we decded to record another episode of his video podcast, Technology and Friends. Here’s a full list of the tutorials in this series: Intro to HTML5…
In one of my previous tutorials I showed you how to livestream video from your desktop PC and serve it to viewers on internet. What happens if you already have a video that was recorded though? What problem does this solve? There are a variety of video formats available for streaming online, but it can…