Category: Glossary

Bandwidth usually refers to the total possible flow between two nodes, such as between two computers over all their unified connections. We use the term bandwidth to describe the maximum bit rate of a system. If a network connection has a bandwidth of 100 Mbps, that means it can’t transfer more than 100 megabits per second. Bitrate usually […]

In video streaming, bitrate refers to the number of bits that are conveyed or processed in a given unit of time. Bitrate is commonly measured in bits per second (bit/s).  Bitrate for HD video, for example, is usually in the range of 5-20 Mbps. Standard-definition is typically 1-6 Mbps and high-quality web video runs at […]

FlowPlayer is an open-source video player for the web. It is a way for you to stream videos on your pages, from your own server. Thus, eliminating the need for external video serving services such as YouTube. FlowPlayer is highly extensible and customizable. 5centsCDN has two versions of this code HTML or IFRAME without branding.

An iFrame is an inline frame, An iframe is an HTML element that allows an external webpage to be embedded in an HTML document. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when the iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser.

Video. js is a web video player built from the ground up for an HTML5 world. It supports HTML5 video and modern streaming formats, as well as YouTube, Vimeo, and even Flash (through plugins, more on that later). It supports video playback on desktop and mobile devices. You can embed JS Player code to your […]

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is the standard markup language for Web pages. HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages. HTML elements are represented by tags.

Playback URLs simply mean links where your content will reside in form of DASH or HLS format

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), also known as MPEG-DASH, is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high-quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers. Similar to Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) solution, MPEG-DASH works by breaking the content into a sequence of small segments, which are served […]

A code used to identify a source of audio/video streaming, in order to show the stream on a website or software over the Web.

Adobe Flash Media Server is a real-time media server It can deliver live audio/video, stream audio/video, record audio/video, etc.