Do you remember the time when online video was limited to 480p on computers and the content centered primarily around short clips of funny children, skateboarding action, or dancing dogs? Successful videos, at the time, garnered thousands of views, had a shelf life measured in weeks, and were monetized only with ads. Today, streaming premium…
As developers, we usually care about the performance, design and usability of the applications we develop. What we sometimes forget is also the most important feature that decides whether users installs the application and then retain it when their device memory is getting low. It is the ‘size’ of the app APK. Nip it in…
I had earlier discussed the importance of keeping the android apk size smaller. In this post, I want to elaborate on the use of font icons in the interest of size and presentation. Every asset we include in the apk will increase its size and apps do need a number of icons and design elements…
To get a video ready for consumption on web and mobile devices, you will have to first upload the master video file on to the server. And then encode the file before delivery. This is a time-consuming process. In an industry where ‘Who gets the eyeball first?’ plays an important role in video becoming a…
You have an audio file and want to generate a video file for the same. You can do so by transcoding the audio file with an image. We can do this by creating a video stream from the image and attaching the audio stream to it. We use ffmpeg for this process. Conversion process Step…
Adding Watermark to videos is an ideal way to protect against content theft and enhance your brand presence. It enables the users to know the content belongs to you and can’t be used without proper authorization. There are many free tools available that can add watermarks. You can achieve this programmatically as well. FFMPEG is one…