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"Google is announcing today that it's working together with Microsoft on a new YouTube application for Windows Phone. Following a fight with Microsoft over its unauthorized YouTube app, the pair appear to have resolved some of their differences. Google demanded that Microsoft should remove its app by May 22nd, but Microsoft issued an update to address some of Google's concerns earlier this week."

"BOSTON - Brightcove, the big video services company, announced today a full-blown, live streaming platform. The company allows the live file to be uploaded to the cloud and and then encoded into as many as 20 live renditions, says founder and executive chairman Jeremy Allaire in this interview with Beet.TV"

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that orchestrates the development of Web standards, has today published a Working Draft for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), a framework that will allow the delivery of DRM-protected media through the browser without the use of plugins such as Flash or Silverlight."

"Starting today, we’re launching a pilot program for a small group of partners that will offer paid channels on YouTube with subscription fees starting at $0.99 per month. Every channel has a 14-day free trial, and many offer discounted yearly rates. For example, Sesame Street will be offering full episodes on their paid channel when it launches. And UFC fans can see classic fights, like a full version of their first event from UFC’s new channel. You might run into more of these channels across YouTube, or look here for a list of pilot channels."

"With sales of mobile devices now outpacing those of desktop PCs, web designers face a challenge: how to best present content across all these devices. Smartphone screens average around 4” diagonally, tablets are 7" to 10", laptops average around 14" and desktop monitors go up to 30" these days. All these different devices result in screens of varying shapes and sizes. This presents a challenge when laying out a page - how to provide a viewing experience that looks good on every screen. One solution is responsive design."

"With our new type-forward search features, all your media, projects and presentations are just a few keystrokes away. Check out the video above to learn more about the better, faster way to search Wiredrive."

Read The State of HTML5 Video Report by LongTail Video; creators of the JW Player. Updated Quarterly.

"To take advantage of the skyrocketing growth in Android devices, online video technology provider Ooyala recently launched a new video tool tailored for Android, says Sean Knapp, Chief Technology Officer at Ooyala during an interview with Beet.TV at NAB. Hook is a new video app that  brings premium video to Android devices."

"Now you have the flexibility to choose between either captions or interactive transcripts for any of your videos. And even better, you can order the captions from us (just like transcripts) or you can upload (and edit!) your own .SRT files.What's a .SRT file? It's a human-editable, human-readable text file that you can create from scratch."

"Netflix users on Windows and OS X currently depend on Microsoft's Silverlight plugin to watch videos. With Silverlight no longer under active development, the company is looking at alternative delivery systems for its app-free, browser-based video delivery.

The answer it's picked is, unsurprisingly, HTML5, but as the company details in a blog post, it's not up to the challenge just yet. The sticking point, again unsurprisingly, is DRM. Netflix's Silverlight player protects the content that it plays, and the company needs to maintain a similar level of protection in its HTML5 successor."

"More than 75% of MPEG-DASH deployments are due to take place either the second half of 2013 and the first half of 2014, according to a new study by the DASH Industry Forum."

One out of six bytes sent to households in the US and Canada is part of a YouTube video: The service’s share of residential downstream traffic has been growing.

"Throughout all the turmoil of the last year, video has remained an important anchor for Yahoo! The site has remained 4th or 5th most popular video site for at least the last year according to Comscore’s online video rankings. In terms of time spent, the company does even better holding the 2nd or 3rd spot with monthly time spent per viewer in the 50-60 minute range. However, there is plenty of room for improvement. Google sites, of course, continue to dominate online rankings. More disturbing is the fact that Facebook has consistently attracted more video viewers than Yahoo! over the last few months."

"A new codec war is looming! The peaceful reign of H.264 is over, the end is nigh, and HEVC is ready to battle to prove its worth, steal the crown and prove itself the one true king (guess who just got caught up on Game of Thrones?). Except of course, none of this is true. The sky is not falling, the end is not near, and the Dothraki aren’t getting ready to storm anything."

"Now with the YouTube Trends Map (YouTube.com/TrendsMap), you can see today’s most popular videos in major markets across the U.S. You can also see what’s popular with women or men, as well as by different age groups."

"YouTube users are now watching more than 6 billion hours of video each month on the Google-owned video site, according to company stats. "

"Before introducing this new version, we’d like to thank all our supporters and customers for their overall involvement in PHP Melody’s progress. Today marks an important milestone in PHP Melody’s development. PHP Melody is growing faster than ever, even 5 and a half years since its first version."

Launched last June, Beachfront Media‘s Beachfront Builder platform was designed to allow video producers to quickly roll out apps across a number of devices.

"MPEG-DASH, an adaptive bitrate streaming technology that enables high-quality streaming via the Internet, received support from industry leaders such as Adobe, Microsoft and Qualcomm  at the DASH Industry Forum at NAB 2013. There, Beet.TV spoke with seven industry leaders for their take on what MPEG-DASH is doing for the industry and why they support it."

"HEVC is the next-gen compression technology lauded as the enabler for a host of new services and capabilities. I discuss the historical development of HEVC and its technical underpinnings in my article “What Is HEVC (H.265)?” In this article, I’ll briefly review those findings and focus on how quickly HEVC will make a mark in streaming media and OTT markets."

"This doesn’t mean HDS is going away, but HDS is a protocol only targeting Flash / AIR, while HLS works across the majority of devices. If you are aiming for a single workflow, HLS is the only logical choice. That said, besides philosophical reasons, there are technical disadvantages of using HLS, which will eventually lead to MPEG-Dash as a unified standard in the future. If you are interested in learning more about MPEG-Dash, join my MPEG-Dash group."