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Flash

Flash Video Hosting: Overview and Instructions

January 2nd, 2011

Welcome to your Flash Video Hosting account at GravityLab Multimedia! We are the industry leader in flash streaming media hosting. We appreciate your business and want to make your account set up as easy for you as possible. Please bookmark this page for future reference. Don’t have an account with GravityLab? Don’t worry! Find a [...]

Devices / Players Compatible with our Flash Video Hosting

October 27th, 2010

List of Players and Devices that have been tested and confirmed working with Flash Video

GravityLab Account

Embedding Windows Media Video

January 14th, 2011

Using and embedding Windows Media video with GravityLab Multimedia is simple. Insert the following code into your HTML document to embed Windows Media Player using your GravityLab Hosting account. We’ve also added a link to “launch” the video in the player underneath the embedded player : <br /> <table border=’0′ cellpadding=’0′ align=”left”> <tr> <td><span class=”mceItemObject” [...]

Welcome to GravityLab Multimedia!

December 25th, 2010

This help document will help you get started with setting up your Basic Services for immediate use to start delivering your multimedia from a global content delivery network. Questions about Advanced Services or more technically advanced questions can be answered through our User Guides. You can also ask any question about your account by opening [...]

List of Flash codecs supported by GravityLab video hosting

June 15th, 2010

Take a look at our hosting plans and options for Flash Hosting The following table lists the supported codecs and their earliest required SWF file format and Adobe Flash Player versions. Our video hosting accounts also support a huge list of Windows Media, Quicktime, Real Media, mp4, mp3, 3gp, 3gp2 and more. Video Codecs SWF [...]

Hosting Account Setup and Help

Encoding Settings for HTTP Live Streaming Media

February 9th, 2011

These settings apply to both live and prerecorded (video on demand, or VOD) encoding. The provided settings are grouped according to whether the content is intended to be streamed over the Cellular or Wi-Fi network, whether the content is for iPhone/iPod Touch or iPad, and whether the content is 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio. The [...]

HTML5

HTML 5 Video Players usable with our mobile video hosting

October 16th, 2010

Collection of HTML5 video players

Mobile Hosting (3GP, MPEG4)

Encoding mobile streaming video and audio for Blackberry

September 29th, 2009

This article provides information on transcoding audio and video files into a format that can be played on a BlackBerry smartphone.

Expression Encoder 2 for Silverlight and Windows Media

March 20th, 2008

From the Microsoft Expression Encoder download site: “Microsoft® Expression® Encoder, a feature of Expression Media, offers encoding, enhancement, and publishing of rich media experiences to Microsoft Silverlight. ” Features Include: Better Encoding VC-1 advanced authoring SDK integration: by adopting the new VC-1 authoring SDK, Expression Encoder 2 is able to author better quality video faster. [...]

Streaming Video Help

How to convert videos from the Flip camcorder to FLV

July 3rd, 2009

One of the great things about the Flip camcorder is that it saves video using the H.264 Codec. If you haven’t heard, H.264 is arguably the best quality video codec out there, renowned for its high quality, low file size, and lack of artifacting. Luckily, since the release of Flash 9, H.264 is now a [...]

Does GravityLab support the FLV file format?

February 15th, 2008

The FLV file format is supported, but FLV files will be shown as progressive download only. Ultimately, this means that users will not be able to fast-forward to any part of the video that hasn’t been downloaded yet. For small files (under a minute long or so) this is not that noticeable. But if you [...]

How to create video for mobile phones

January 23rd, 2008

GravityLab Multimedia offers several mobile video hosting plans, and many of our customers ask how they can create .3gp video files in order to stream the video to 3rd generation cell phones. For this tutorial you will need a short clip of uncompressed video, including audio. You will also need Apple QuickTime Pro. You can [...]