When publishing a video on the web, sometimes it is desirable to add a defining mark on the video, often called a watermark. WHen you use api.video in the sandbox, we add a watermark to show that the videos are being played back in our test environment:

A chyron is the text that appears at the bottom of the TV on news channels telling viewers the topic being discussed. You might want to add a chyron to your live stream or to your video on demand (VOD). In this post, we’ll walk through the steps to add a chyron to your video. Chyron a video The application (which will soon be published at chyron.a.video) extends https://record.a.video . You can read about how we built record.a.video in a series of blog posts . …

The first demo we published on a.video was a demo on how to upload a video (check it out yourself at https://upload.a.video . This is a great little demo that will take your video, break it into smaller chunks (1 MB in this case), and upload them into api.video. Once…

api.video is an end-to-end api service for video. Upload your video, and we’ll transcode it into a stream, host it, and also provide a player that you can easily embed into your site for video delivery. …

Video captions/subtitles make it easier to follow along with your video. Whether your users have hearing issues or not, sometimes they may not want to have a loud speaker playing the video’s audio, and adding captions allows them to understand the video. When adding captions to a video, you must…

One of our most popular video on demand features is the ability to turn a video ‘private,’ where each url to the video has a one time token to prevent sharing. We have been asked many times about when the ‘private’ feature would be available for livestreams. …

HLS Video Streaming HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is the current ‘de facto’ streaming standard on the web. The actual web standard is MPEG-DASH, but HLS has gained widespread use, making it the predominant streaming solution in use today. When you play a video hosted at — you are watching a HLS video stream. …

A video API is an application programming interface that allows you to create, store, and deliver video. Many video APIs also include a way for you to retrieve analytics about the videos and livestreams you show viewers. …

Encoding and transcoding are often used interchangeably but they have slightly different definitions. Encoding is when you take an uncompressed, raw video source and compress it. Typically this is done to create a smaller file, because it’s easier to use with more devices. Transcoding is when you take an already…