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Encode h.264 and WebM videos for MediaElement.js using FFmpeg

Chris Coulson — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:42:12 +0000

I recently added a video player to a client’s site. I found John Dyer’s MediaElement.js to be an excellent solution for doing this. As long as you provide both an h.264 and WebM encoded version of the video, it will play natively on almost all browsers. For unsupported browsers it will fall back to Flash. The client’s videos were all wmv’s, so they would need to be converted to h.264 and WebM.

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Easy Handling of Http Range Requests in ASP.NET

Chris Coulson — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:44:25 +0000

I was recently working on adding video playing capabilities to a client’s existing ASP.NET application. They had video files that had been uploaded by users, and they wanted to allow the users to be able to preview the files on the web. I found MediaElement.js to be a excellent solution for this: As long as there were WEBM and H.264 encoded versions of the video to be played...

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