Video content on the the web is increasing - with such an immersive medium - it is pretty much a . no brainer. However, a few months ago, I looked into how the web is using video on the web, and found that slow video startup times and stalls are much more common than we … Continue reading Video Playback Metrics: New Synthetic Testing Tool StreamOrNot
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You have probably seen it while browsing your favourite social media feed - where a video plays silently, but there are captions running across the bottom, indicating that something interesting is happening. Personally, I am more likely to stop and watch a video in my social feeds if there are captions (while the video plays silently). … Continue reading Video Accessibility: Adding Captions
Video on the web is now reaching far beyond just linking to YouTube. Thousands of pages are embedding video as an integral part of the website experience: both increasing the interest and engagement of their site to users, but also the size and time to load of the webpage. This is a delicate balance that … Continue reading State of the Web: Video Playback Metrics
The best way to deliver video that starts up quickly and doesn’t stall is to make sure that the file downloads quickly. Since we cannot control the network our customers are using - this means we need to make the files smaller. In a previous post at Cloudinary, I described three techniques to reduce file … Continue reading Deep Dive: Three Tips for Faster, Easier Video Delivery
In Part 1 of this series, I used Machine learning and AI to identify and crop images quickly. In Part 2, I build a specialized machine learning model that identified objects for my unique purpose. In this post, I'm going to use all of these tools to build an automatic image processing system that manipulates … Continue reading Image Processing Shortcuts using AI and ML Part 3: Putting it all Together
