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Blog posts of 'Video' tag

New Angular SDK for image management - More than meets the eye

Cloudinary Angular 2 Image and Video SDK

The night was moist. Angular2 had just been released and developers all over the world were asking for an integrated image management solution.

Cloudinary heeded the call and is proud to present the new Angular2 SDK, providing directives for displaying and transforming images and video with an API.

Cloudinary is an end-to-end image and video management solution for your website and mobile apps. Cloudinary covers everything from media uploads and storage to manipulations, optimizations, and delivery.

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Simplifying the delivery of video content

Alok Shah
By Alok Shah
As video use and requirements grow - so do the challenges
Video is an increasingly important component for websites and apps, as consumer demand for and consumption of video content is growing. It’s not only for wired devices, though. More and more, consumers are accessing video where they want it, when they want it, on whatever device that happens to be nearby.
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Media related web development challenges

Orly Bogler
By Orly Bogler
What to consider when developing media rich websites and apps
Websites have evolved greatly over the past few years. Once text-heavy websites have become more eye-catching with prominent images and video. But the addition of richer media isn’t the only change impacting websites. Consumer behavior also factors into this evolution, as web access has moved from the desktop realm to a variety of different devices – smartphones, tablets, laptops, smartwatches and TVs – with different dimensions and resolutions. And consumers want to be able to access web content anytime and from any location.
 
To ensure that website performance is optimized, bandwidth usage is minimized and users have a top-notch experience, we will need to address many challenges.

High resolution images and videos

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, it’s no surprise that website owners are using images and videos as powerful tools on their websites to engage visitors. High-resolution images look best, but these files are so big that they cause websites to load slowly and use excessive bandwidth. These problems frustrate visitors, and potentially decrease their incentive to  engage further on the website.
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How to get the most from the HTML5 video player

Jackie Rosenzveig
By Jackie Rosenzveig
HTML5 video player with cloud based video transcoding

Once upon a time, in long forgotten browser versions, getting a video into a website required creating and embedding Flash resources. But these days, all modern browsers support HTML5, including the HTML5 <video> tag, which means you’ve got a built-in video player that anyone can use.

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Video transcoding, resizing, cropping and manipulating made easy

Meir Feinberg
By Meir Feinberg
Transcode, convert, resize, crop and manipulate videos

Videos are becoming more prolific with people having the capability to capture videos with a wide variety of cameras, including smartphone cameras that are available almost everywhere. Web and mobile applications that display videos online can be faced with a challenge when the videos are created or uploaded from different devices and in various formats, and then need to be delivered in a multitude of resolutions and aspect ratios to various web browsers, laptops and all kinds of mobile devices in HTML5 web friendly video formats.

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Introducing cloud-based service for video upload, real-time manipulation and optimized viewing

Nadav Soferman
By Nadav Soferman
Introducing cloud based service for video management

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. For modern websites, a video surely takes the visual impact to a whole new level.

Nowadays, people enjoy the amazing capability of shooting videos with smartphone cameras that easily fit in their back pockets and are accessible nearly everywhere. Modern web applications have an opportunity to dramatically increase their visual impact by showcasing these videos online. Between news reports, user shared video snippets, explainer videos and ad campaigns, we see more and more videos appearing daily in our visited websites.

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Reduce size of animated GIFs, automatically convert to WebM and MP4

Nadav Soferman
By Nadav Soferman
Reduce size of animated GIF, auto convert to WebM/MP4

Short animated GIF-based video sequences seem to be spreading like wildfire around the web.

Media and news sites display short video segments, social apps allow their users to share animated GIFs with their friends, and while the dated animated GIF format is very useful for this purpose, it has one significant disadvantage - its huge file size.

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