Many Options with JW Player for Flash Streaming

Posted by Derrick on January 27, 2011 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Many Options with JW Player for Flash Streaming.  If you need to get a better understanding of the  JW Player, check out the available JW Player plug-ins listed on the Longtail website.  You can read through the plug-in overviews and find there are some impressive features available.  Our 1-Day Wowza Media Server Training classes show students how to implement the JW Player.  Take part in one our training classes to get a better understanding how you can use the player.

Give us a call about signing up to attend one of our Wowza Media Server Trainings in Orlando or On-line.  Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 for more information or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com. Individuals from any country can attend our On-line training classes.

Check out the JW Player Secure Token Tutorial

Posted by Derrick on December 27, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Check out the JW Player 5.2 Secure Token Tutorial. This is a great tutorial for those that need to get familiar with how to implement secure token in JW Player for use with Wowza Media Server. You’ll find a reference for installing Flex as well as a hands-on tutorial to guide you through the secure token set-up in JW Player 5.2

Take Advantage of Longtail’s AdSolution

Posted by Derrick on September 19, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Take Advantage of Longtail’s AdSolution to delivery commercials to your on-line viewers.  AdSolution offers many features for targeting  commercials for different websites and clients.  You can even specify the percentage of commercials that you want targeted towards specific channels.  Since AdSolution is from Longtail it works nicely with JW Player.  There are options for delivering both Pre-Roll and Post-Roll commercials within your streaming content.  Both can be targeted separately with the commercials that you desire to have implemented.

Use Google Analytics To Track Visitors

Posted by Derrick on September 11, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Use Google Analytics To Track Visitors.  The great element about Google Analytics Tracking is it’s free.  Just go to the Google Analytics site and set up an account. You need to do a little set-up and add some code to your website or blog but it’s pretty straightforward.  On a basic level you can easily view all types of details about your visitors.

Once you get your Google Analytics account going you can use it to also track the streaming videos that viewers are watching.  JW Player has a plug-in for Google Analytics that allows you to track Videos Played, Percentage Played and Seconds Played.  There’s a cost associated with the plug-in but it’s a very nice feature of Google Analytics tracking.  Tracking your video analytics with Google Analytics and the JW Player Plug-in is a great way to track Commercials and Video Ads too.  Being able to tell your Advertisers what Percentage of their video advertisement played is invaluable.  Having the Seconds Played information is just ‘icing on the cake’.  If you need helping implementing tracking of your videos with Google Analyics and JW Player just give us a call or send us an E-mail.  We provide consulting and training on those items.  Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com for more information.

Working with Encoding.com, Amazon S3 and Cloudfront

Posted by Derrick on July 2, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Working with Encoding.com, Amazon S3 and Cloudfront is what I had a chance to do recently. It was nice to work with the Encoding.com encoding service again. This service can make things extremely easy for novices especially if you have someone to set up encoding presets and other items for you. It terms of compression, I generally like to be up close and personal on the desktop with my compression tools but there are some things that I like about the Encoding.com service.

Project Goal: To provide a great viewing experience for 80 minute video lessons with Real-Time Streaming. The videos needed to play without interruption. Also we needed to provide 1-2 minute videos for Progressive Download.

Here are the tools used for the project:

Amazon S3
Amazon Cloudfront
Rackspace Cloud
Encoding.com
JW Player

Because of the project we decided to go with delivering Real-time Streaming of the 80 minute lessons with Amazon Cloudfront and Amazon S3. We also used the Cloudfront and S3 for the Progessive Downloads. What nice is the Amazon Cloudfront uses Adobe Flash Media Servers for Real Time Streaming. For delivery we implemented On-demand Dynamic Streaming for Real-time Streaming and went with a single datarate video for Progressive Download. We used 5 different dates for different types of viewers and the video dynamically switches based on users bandwidth. Rackspace was used for the source file location and JW Player was used for both Real-time and Progressive Download playback of the Flash video content.

Here’s what I liked about Encoding.com:

• Watch Folder Encoding
• FTP or Amazon S3 locations can be specified for Watch Folders
• Videos can be sent to FTP or Amazon S3 locations after encoding
• The ability to view encoding jobs in the Encoding Queue
• Watch Encoding Log

Here’s what I’d like to see improved with Encoding.com:

• The ability to specify naming conventions for Watch Folders
• The ability to apply multiple presets to Watch Folders
• More compression filters available