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How To Change the Player Dimensions on Your Embed Code

Step 1: Choose the Content to Embed To get started, log in to your Dacast account. Find the video you want to embed and click the “Edit” button: Step 2: Find and Copy the Embed Code Navigate to the “Sharing” section under the “General” tab and copy the “Embed Code” with the copy icon:  There […]

How to Locally Encode Your Video Contents Using Handbrake?

  HandBrake is a local encoder that can correct some issues with your video, anything from the file being too large to audio/video sync issues. Handbrake will also transcode your videos into a format that is accepted by our platform if need be. What are the benefits of using HandBrake? HandBrake can help you fix […]

Video Transcoding Services: New Transcoding Limits on VODs

Video Encoding and Transcoding

  1. What is Transcoding? Transcoding is the process that allows you to create several renditions of the same video allowing you to offer your viewers different video qualities. Transcoding is also used when the original uploaded format of the video cannot be played. 2. What are Transcoding Credits? Transcoding credits represent the amount of […]

How to Stream to Dacast Using LiveU

  This guide only applies to customers who are using the Dacast version HERE. (Users using the version of Dacast as shown in the image above) How to Stream to Dacast Using LiveU If you are using a LiveU Encoder with Dacast, please see this page on how to connect: https://solohelp.liveu.tv/hc/en-us/articles/13979019557275  If you still have […]