Easy Video Embeds

by bobrenjc93 • 13 years ago

19 15 13 years ago

mxcm• 13 years ago

How are you going to handle the bandwidth costs of hosting and streaming videos? also the animation is a bit annoying for repeated visitors.

micmcg2• 13 years ago

^ This.

I don't really understand the model. All you are doing is allowing people to host a video file with you and doing some trivial code snippet generation. How do you make money to pay for the hosting?

TallboyOne• 13 years ago

Wow that is an incredibly frustrating banner video.... why would you put that?

aside from that, cool

bobrenjc935• 13 years ago

I originally thought it would be a cool demonstration of the html5 video tag.

Unfortunately, it was implemented poorly. This will be the first thing I fix in the next iteration.

Sorry for the annoyance

hipsters_unite2• 13 years ago

How is this better than using Vimeo (or YouTube, for that matter)?

bobrenjc935• 13 years ago

Both Youtube and Vimeo use Iframes to embed their content, which means you get their native interface by default and limited customization parameters. With this site, your video is embedded using an html5 video tag, which gives you much more control over your content.

One cool application of the html5 video tag is the kickstarter team page - www.kickstarter.com/team

Hopefully with future iterations, the difference between EasyVideoEmbeds and Youtube will become more obvious. A few features I will be adding soon include

- Dynamically generate code, ie. Custom start time, video cropping, auto-play toggling

- Video conversion (from any video format to html5 supported format)

- Analytics

hipsters_unite2• 13 years ago

I guess it depends what you're doing with the video... most of the time I'm happy to use vimeo - as then you get stats etc through their player as well as discoveries through that site as well.

artursapek• 13 years ago

The fact that you have to watch that shitty stretched out video before using it every time is hilariously idiotic. Nobody will ever use this.

bobrenjc935• 13 years ago

You're right. It will be fixed in the next iteration.

timsco• 13 years ago

Don't be a jerk. Calling someone's work idiotic is mean.

What did you build today?

moonboots• 13 years ago

May I recommend http://typing.io for the typist in the video? Disclaimer: my webapp

peteforde• 13 years ago

Congrats on launching your product.

Who do you imagine using this? What is your ideal use case?

bobrenjc935• 13 years ago

Thanks! I think embedded video, when implemented correctly, can make for a very compelling web experience.

One great example of this is kickstarter's team page - http://kickstarter.com/team

In terms of users, my hope is that one day, all web developers look to this site as the easiest way to embed videos on their sites.

Ideal use case - A web developer wants to incorporate a video on their site. He or she wants to have the freedom to customize the video experience, but doesn't want to worry about video hosting. Instead of using youtube or setting up their own video hosting platform, they go to this site to have their video embedded within their site in minutes!

micmcg2• 13 years ago

Can you explain why you think people wouldn't just use Youtube/Vimeo/etc?

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