Lesson 9Optimizing audio & video for the web
- Notion 55 - What's the impact of storing media on GAFAM platform
- Notion 56 - Make UX experiences a priority
- Notion 57 - Is audio or video needed?
- Notion 58 - Common video file types
- Notion 59 - Optimizing audio files
- Notion 60 - Optimizing video files
- Notion 61 - Audio & Video hosting
- Notion 62 - Review
Notion 61
Audio & Video hosting
Target skills
Learn how to host audio and videos
What is the meaning of video hosting?
Video hosting is the concept of uploading your video content to be able to distribute it online.
Recommendation of audio hosting
- We recommend that you only host audio files on your website if they are less than 1 minute long and if you are only hosting 1 or 2 audio files. Uploading videos to your website will cost you bandwidth (a range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal.) Higher quality videos and longer videos cost more bandwidth. If you allow your site visitors to embed your videos on their own websites, then the bandwidth gets multiplied each time the video is viewed there.
- Also, we recommended hosting music files on a platform, like SoundCloud, and an easy way to embed sound clips or files is to use an “audio block.” These audio blocks are simple, sleek, and pretty user-friendly. The simple volume and play buttons lets the user choose whether or not they want to listen to the sound file.
Recommendation of video hosting
- We don’t recommend hosting videos on your website because video files are usually very large and this slows down the website’s performance and causes pages to stall. You should upload the video to the hosting platform of your choice, copy the URL and paste it into your site.
For the images
https://bhmbizsites.com/the-guide-to-hosting-audio-files-and-videos-for-website-owners/