Steve Heffernan’s Blog

UPDATE: This tutorial has been rolled into an open source html5 video player.

This is a tutorial on building an HTML5 video player in Javascript. It’s meant to give you a basic understanding of the different options you have with the new video tag in HTML5, and the javascript needed to create some of the typical video controls you’d find in other players. It’s library agnostic, meaning you don’t need a library like jQuery to create it, however once you understand how everything works it can definitely be simplified/improved on. I’m always open for feedback if you have suggestions.

View the final result.

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This is a list of online video transcoding providers in no particular order. More for my own reference.
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For a long time Zencoder has had the domain zencoder.tv. Since then we’ve purchased the dot com version from the original owner. The question now is whether to completely switch over to the dot com version, or just redirect dot com requests to dot tv.
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I’ve started the decade by moving up to Silicon Valley. Los Gatos, CA to be specific. Myself and two other founders of Zencoder are here to do some focused work and hopefully raise some capital for further development.
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I wanted to add both Zencoder and Flix Cloud to a list of video editing software on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia is pretty picky about external links. My links got erased after only a day.
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On2 just released FlixCloud to the press.

It’s quite an awesome app. Blazing fast at encoding video. Infinite input/output formats including VP6 flvs obviously. I wrote a PHP wrapper/library for their API that I still need to make available on Github. Contact me if you need it.

In case you haven’t seen anything about it, FlixCloud is a partnership between On2 and Zencoder.

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One of Sevenwire’s main development projects right now is video transcoding software called Zencoder. This is a great project for many reasons. For one, Sevenwire owns a portion of the company, meaning that if it succeeds we’ll profit from it. Client work is fine and all, but to have a project that brings in more than just income from developer hours would be awesome. 

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