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I discovered Cloudinary's video capabilities extend beyond simple image handling. I recently investigated whether Cloudinary offered a video player embed similar to YouTube or Vimeo—an <iframe></iframe> with a dedicated player.

While I appreciate the ease of using a <video></video> tag, I consistently forget the crucial poster attribute needed to avoid a blank rectangle on mobile browsers. Creating a custom poster for each video is a tedious task I often skip.

Cloudinary's Video Player Studio provides a solution, offering a customizable player that automatically handles the poster image. This eliminates the poster creation step and leverages Cloudinary's advantages, such as optimized video formats and sizing.

A significant benefit, especially for longer videos, is "adaptive bitrate streaming." While a library likely needs to be downloaded, the bandwidth savings quickly offset this. This player supports HLS and MPEG-DASH, key technologies for adaptive streaming.

This post is not sponsored by Cloudinary. My interest stemmed from our frequent video embedding on CSS-Tricks, where I already utilize Cloudinary for various tasks.

Here's an example:

Following a discussion with the Cloudinary team, I learned two important points:

1. The player is built using VideoJS.
2. Cloudinary has a blog post detailing advanced player customization.

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