VZLive Sneak Preview

We do an awful lot of live events here at VidZapper. The last couple of weeks alone has seen the usual simulcast of TV stations, live world championship boxing, political party rallies, government announcements and religious services. Now we're gearing up to a six week major live event with 24 x 7 streaming from multiple feeds in the US sponsored by the biggest names in US business.

It's resulted in work on developing something we think is quite unique - the VZLive Mixer.

The Mixer allows you to select any file from your archive, along with any live feed and place it in your playlist queue and then select the order in which it is seen. We've set this up so that it can take feeds from multiple live publishing points and output to rtmp and m3u8 - i.e. web and mobile. We're also building in a feed delay in case anything 'untoward' happens.

On top of our unique scheduling application, VZLive is another step onwards from the run of the mill video management systems out there...

Creating an iPad Player With VidZapper

One of the exciting new features we've added to VidZapper is the ability to build iPad and iPhone players without writing a line of code.

We somewhat disingenuously call this the HTML5 version of VZPlayer. Here's how:

1) Go to your Channel and click on Player, then click on Add Player:

2) This will open up the Player Builder:

3) Now you can select and add components such as the Video, Controls and Playlist from the drop down list.

4) Select a playlist from the dropdown on the left and you're done!

5) You can preview your Player by clicking Code and selecting the HMTL5 option, opening it in a HTML5 compatible browser such as Google Chrome or Apple Safari. You can also view it on an iPad or iPhone of course.