Day 15: Adopt Adaptive Bitrate Streaming to automate adjustment of video quality in real time #25DaysOfMediaMagic
Cloudinary’s Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABS) capability adjusts video quality in real time to deliver the best-possible quality for the current viewing device and network connection.
- You can eliminate buffering time
- You can save bandwidth by displaying a lower-resolution..
- You can eliminate buffering time
- You can save bandwidth by displaying a lower-resolution..
... video to keep the audience engaged if the network connection is too weak to display the high-resolution version. #25DaysOfMediaMagic
So you can use @cloudinary to generate a video in “HLS” format, which is a supported adaptive streaming format.
Check out the example of eagerly generating this video in “HLS” format #25DaysOfMediaMagic
Node.js:
Check out the example of eagerly generating this video in “HLS” format #25DaysOfMediaMagic
Node.js:
Then deliver the video using the corresponding file format, such as .m3u8 (HLS) here, and include the streaming profile (sp_) and other transformations exactly matching what you generated in your eager transformation. #25DaysOfMediaMagic
Finally, you can use the Cloudinary video player to display the video on the browser. Actually, any video player which supports HLS.
That’s it. 😊 #25DaysOfMediaMagic
That’s it. 😊 #25DaysOfMediaMagic
