One of the greatest advantages of Empora is the ability to display member only videos on your website with your choice of player and branding. You may be selling an educational video series to paying members or maybe you have created an awesome “Game of Thrones”-esque fantasy series that you only want paying subscribers to …
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Video preview thumbnail on timeline
This feature was months in the making, and now we are finally in Beta release of this highly sought after feature. To activate click on the new option on the skin configuration page. The option is named “Show Timeline Thumbnail Preview”. Note that by checking the box, it will not automatically show in the preview …
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How to remove copyright content from your YouTube videos.
Firstly log into your studio at https://studio.youtube.com You’ll see “Content” appearing on the navigation bar on the left. Click on Content. Then click on the down arrow and then Copyright claims. This will filter all your videos that contain copyright content. Mouse over the Copyright claim text and you’ll see the below popup. Click on …
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Videos containing copyright content
Last week, there was an update made at YouTube which somehow prevented videos identified to contain copyright content (such as images, music, sounds, etc…) from being used by the Empora player. As it filtered through the site, videos that were available for the last 12 months started appearing offline on Empora. The fix is simple …
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1080p, 2k, 4k, 8k. Embed high resolution videos.
I thought I wrote a blog post about this before, but it doesn’t look like I did. We have only been able to offer embedded videos up to 720p resolution and there have been queries asking for higher resolution videos. Well, good news… you can now choose to embed videos up to 8k at 60 …
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Change Video Title
So we noticed that if a video is uploaded to YouTube in a low resolution (360p), that the title does not seem to come across when skinning through Empora. As a result, the video is “Untitled” even if there is a title for the video in YouTube. If you have 10 different videos that you …
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Searchable videos in your list
We currently have users who have hundreds of videos in their account. Scrolling through the hundreds of videos in the account to find a specific one is therefore not practical. As such, we have developed the ability to quickly search for a video based on the title of the video. This should make it a …
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Playback Speed Adjustment
Finally, after long last, we have released a new feature that will allow your users to control the playback speed of the video. There is a new checkbox to show/hide this option to your users: To modify the style of the playback speed button, you will need to have some basic knowledge of CSS. If …
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Adding self-hosted videos (not on YouTube)
We have just released the ability for you to skin your own self-hosted videos. So let’s say you have a video that is not permitted on YouTube for whatever reason, you can set up your own server on your own CDN or web host to serve the mp4 video through your custom Empora video player …
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Updating video player in bulk
To cater for users who have hundreds of videos, editing each of them one at a time gets a little tedious (understatement). There is now a checkbox that allows you to update all videos with the same skin in bulk. This way all the videos that you have deployed all over your website will have …
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