Serve video of a quality based on available bandwidth

Kendell 5 years, 8 months ago

Hello,

Is there a way to automatically change the quality of the video based on the user’s bandwidth? Similarly to how YouTube does it?

I’m using hosted videos and the shortcode to build my players.

Kindly advise, thanks.
Kendell

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Lucia 6 years ago

Hi Kendell.

Yes, there is. We call it Quality Switching, and you can read more about it here: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/quality-switching

Thanks for your post.

Sylvain

Martin 6 years ago

Hello Kendell,

FV Player Quality Switching gives you the basics, but in order to have working ABR (Adaptive Bitrate Streaming) you have to encode your videos in HLS or MPEG-DASH formats.

Our guide for HLS can be found here: https://foliovision.com/player/securing-your-video/hls-stream It uses AWS which is not easy to use and not cheap, but it also gives you encrypted video, which is much harder to download. The automated video download tools won’t be able to download it.

Thanks,
Martin

Kendell 6 years ago

Thanks @Sylvain and @Martin,

I’ve managed to get the basic setup working with my self hosted video. I’m using the Publitio platform (https://publit.io/) to serve my video to the player.

I’m assuming the video have to be encoded on the fly to get the HLS working?

Regards,
Kendell

Lucia 6 years ago

Hi Kendell.

There are several steps to get HLS working, and they’re explained step-by-step, in our guide: https://foliovision.com/player/securing-your-video/hls-stream
If you have any questions, after reading it, please let us know.

Thanks.
Sylvain

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