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side note -- is it just me, or have Vimeo videos always been horrible as embeds? They take longer to load than YouTube, they take too long to fast-forward (clic
by yboris 4y ago
side note -- is it just me, or have Vimeo videos always been horrible as embeds? They take longer to load than YouTube, they take too long to fast-forward (click in the middle and wait 5 seconds before you see the video at that time location).
And on this embeded video I couldn't even change the volume!
It's frustrating me to the point that I just opted not to watch the video on this website :(
- Waterluvian 4y agoI don't want to say "it's just you" but the load circle was less than 1 second, and skipping ahead was instantaneous for me. Maybe it's CDN location serving up the videos? I'm near Toronto. Also I checked your webpage and perhaps, by being in the business of video streaming, you're more attuned to these things than the average person? (P.S. your website is so elegant!)
- dceddia 4y agoI’ve been on the lookout for a better way to do embeddable videos. The YouTube one is fine, but for a landing page, it’s not great that YT (of course) tries to get you to watch recommended videos right afterward. I was actually going to say, Wistia has a nice player but it’s expensive - and then I just checked their pricing and they actually have lowered prices quite a bit! There’s even a generous free tier now. I’ve also been curious about how hard it’d be to self-host an embedded video. Naively it seems like the hardest part would be encoding it into a bunch of sizes and chunks… and then keeping an eye on bandwidth. I found a good blog on it a while ago and can’t find it now.