HTML5 has brought incredible convinience to publishers wanting to put  video online and not worry about device and browser variants. Setting up a basic video on demand platform is as easy as having the content and putting together few lines of code and voila most modern browsers can play the video.  No more plugins, browser specific code and with few lines of code the job is done in no time. This one line of code is HTML5 video player in its basic form and is sufficient to play and control video. 

2015 is the third consecutive year when cable is losing video subscribers albeit modesty, but the new age video service providers  are all but happy. They are busy expanding and enrolling truckload of new customers at a growth unprecedented in video industry. Combine large content library, flavored with original programming, price economics and more recent benevolence (or business reality) of major TV networks and SVOD services seems to offer lot of value. And consumers have welcomed them with. 

FFmpeg is a rich multimedia framework which can handle most exhaustive image and video processing tasks. FFmpeg can perform encoding, decoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, playback and streaming for audio and video content. In addition to open source, FFmpeg has unique advantage of supporting large number of media containers, codecs and file formats. FFmpeg can be used on Mac by either downloading a static build or compiling FFmpeg for Mac. Compiling FFmpeg on Mac is easy and and similar. 

Online video delivery has a rich and eventful history and is fast becoming the medium of convenience for masses to get entertained. Today, online video delivery is far more predictable than ever in its history of over two decades. While concerns and areas of improvement are aplenty, the days of spinning wheels waiting for video to start playing are largely gone. This journey was neither short nor easy and continues to witness technology and infrastructure upgrades. Online Video exists in form of. 

Can OTT service offer premium content and free consumers from the clutches of cable and satellite service providers? Come next month and big daddy of premium content – HBO is coming straight over the top to your connected Apple device. HBO NOW has all the ingredients in making of successful offering – a robust multi-platform content delivery ecosystem, popular content and great devices. The service has the potential to change Pay TV market dynamics and for lot of reasons HBO is the one. 

While rising SVOD revenues may not be ringing trouble for traditional Pay-TV yet,  subscription video is on rapid upturn.  A recent report from Strategy Analytics reveals SVOD services led by Netflix , Hulu and Amazon will make up nearly half of OTT revenues in North America with overall OTT video market likely to cross $10.7 billion in 2014. Meanwhile traditional service providers are losing video subscribers (top 10 pay-television service providers lost 165,500 customers in second quarter of.