Product Updates The Amazon CloudFront CDN Shaved Off Up To 50% of Our Recorder Client Loading Time When user numbers start to grow, one can expect that they will start accessing your service from different geographical regions. Relying on servers located in just one particular region (Europe in our case)
Product Updates Introducing FullHD, 2k and 4k Video Recording Starting with December 2017 Pipe will correctly record, process & store FullHD, 2k and 4k UHD/DCI videos. Quick resolutions overview: * HD is 1280×720 * FullHD is 1920×1080 * 2k is 2048×1080
Product Updates Introducing Audio Only Recording Audio only recording is the feature request we constantly received since launching the Pipe recording platform. Recently we’ve been hard at work adding the feature and as of today it’s available
Technology Common getUserMedia() Errors Once you get getUserMedia() working with audio and video constraints you immediately start hitting problems like: 1. user has no webcam, just a microphone 2. user has (accidentally) denied access to the webcam
Technology getUserMedia() Video Constraints WebRTC is constantly evolving and with it, it’s most known function getUserMedia(). With it you can get access to the device’s webcams and microphones and request a video stream, an audio
Technology Supported Audio Constraints in getUserMedia() The No.1 feature request we got this year is the ability to record audio instead of video so we set out to deliver just that, hopefully by the end of the year.
Tutorials Converting WebM to MP4 Using FFmpeg The WebM Project has been slowly getting more support from the browser community with Edge 14 adding support in the Anniversary edition of Windows 10. At the same time more .webm files are
Technology Smarter Video Hosting & Delivery With Cloudinary When it comes to storing your (newly recorded) videos Amazon’s S3 is the obvious choice and it’s a great choice. But Cloudinary’s video platform is a lot more powerful when
Product Updates Our 2nd Generation HTML5 Video Recorder Since releasing our 1st HTML desktop video recorder in December 2016 we’ve never stopped improving it. The work culminated this summer with more than a dozen weeks of hard work & research
Technology HEIF and HEVC in iOS 11: Quick Overview With iOS 11, Apple added an option to compress both photos and videos with a new, more efficient encoding called HEVC or High Efficiency Video Codec. It also introduced the HEIF file format
Technology Using The HTML < video > Element To Play Videos In Your Website We’ve come a long way since Flash was the de facto plugin for reliably playing videos across browsers. Today it’s as easy as adding 3 lines of HTML code: <video
Product Updates Chrome 60: Flash No Longer Permitted to Access Microphone and Camera On Insecure Origins July 2018 edit: made it more clear that this change applies to the Flash plugin as HTML5 mic/webcam access was already restricted to https and localhost since Chrome 47. Starting with Chrome
Technology Why we chose WebRTC over Media Recorder API for HTML5 Video Recording This post will look back at our decision to use WebRTC over Media Recorder API for recording video from a browser. Read on for the technical details. By Q4 2016 Safari was the
Technology Troubleshooting WebRTC Connection Issues Failed WebRTC connections can be caused by restrictive networks behind symmetric NATs, port blocks and even protocol blocks at the application & transport layers. We will delve in the intricate process of establishing
Webcam Reviews All Top Logitech Webcams Compared (Including the 4k PRO/Brio) The hardware industry has several very good examples of product naming. The Intel Inside campaign and iPhone naming immediately come to mind. At the other end of the spectrum one of the eager
Tutorials Recording User Generated Videos With Formstack Forms and Pipe Video Recorder August 2024 Update: the 1.0 embed code used in the article below is now deprecated. Please follow the newer article which uses the newer 2.0 embed code. September 2019 Update: the
Product Updates Pipe's HTML 5 WebRTC Based Video Recording Client Gets A Major Update After more than a month of further development we’ve just pushed a major update to Pipe which includes several important updates to our HTML 5 WebRTC based video recording client. Proper handling
Product Updates Pipe 0.20 Brings Some Early Christmas Goodies With a final push before the holidays, we managed to improve Pipe even further. New Amazon S3 folder options and regions We’ve added the option to specify a folder name when configuring
Product Updates New HTML 5 WebRTC Based Video Recording Client Is Now In Beta With the advent of browsers starting to slowly push away from Flash, the latest version of Pipe comes with a brand new HTML 5 video recorder. Developed with WebRTC, it uses the latest
Product Updates Newly released Pipe version adds tons of improvements Loads of changes and improvements were implemented during the last 3 months, a list that culminated yesterday with the release in beta of the 1st HTML 5 & WebRTC based Pipe video recording
Technology Correct Syntax for HTML Media Capture While researching HTML Media Capture for recording videos from mobile devices with the Pipe video recorder we’ve came across several possible syntaxes. This post explains where they originate from and which one
Technology Flash is turned off by default in Safari 10 on macOS Sierra. Here's what you can do about it [AS A DEVELOPER] macOS Sierra was launched yesterday, and with it came a new version of Safari, Safari 10. Along with new features like Apple Pay, Safari 10 in Sierra introduces changes in the way it
Product Updates Environments Now Available The next logical step in the evolution of Pipe, after implementing multiple webhooks, was to add the ability to create multiple environments per account. Environments Each environment has it’s own S3, (S)
Technology I've disabled Flash for a week In light of recent announcements from both Safari and Chrome that they’ll stop advertising Flash Player’s presence I’ve decided to see how ready the Internet is to move past Flash’
Product Updates Pipe 0.17 Adds Multiple Webhooks and More Our roadmap to making Pipe the best experience it can be, has made us focus on adding and implementing more tools that help the user to develop, test and integrate with our product