How to Hide Your Subscribers on YouTube

A channel’s YouTube subscriber count is an indication of how popular a channel is. It is one of the routes to attracting more YouTube visitors to subscribe to your channel. But then you may have noticed that some channels do not reveal their subscriber count. If you’re thinking of hiding your subscribers on YouTube, too, […]

How to Share a Private YouTube Playlist with this Simple Hack

YouTube doesn’t allow you to share a private Youtube playlist. There’s a workaround though. People usually create private YouTube playlists for their own viewing pleasure. A private YouTube playlist may contain public, unlisted, or private videos. Usually, they contain private videos. Videos that they don’t want anyone else to watch except some selected people. If […]

What is Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Video?

You may have come across the term signal-to-noise ratio in product brochures or descriptions. Sometimes it is written in the short form SNR or S/N. So, what does signal-to-noise ratio mean? What should you know about it? To put it simply in the context of video it is the ratio of good video (signal) against […]

What is the AMR Audio Format? Why is it Better than MP3?

AMR is an audio format that hardly anyone hears about. If you’ve come across it recently and wondering what it’s all about, here’s a quick explanation. AMR stands for Adaptive Multi-Rate. It is identified by the .amr extension. Is it a new audio format? No. It has been around since 1999. AMR File Background Ericsson […]

What is HTML 5 Video? Why Has it Replaced Flash Video?

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a web coding language. It sends instructions to a web browser like Chrome, Firefox or Opera how to display a web page. The latest HTML version is HTML5. How is HTML5 different from previous HTML versions? Apart from support for SVG graphics, HTML5 is unique because of […]

How to Play MP4 Video on a Set-Top Box

Why would you want to play an MP4 video on a set-top box when you can do it directly on your HDTV. HDTVs come with USB ports. You can play MP4 videos through your pen drive or an external hard disk. Your TV’s built-in media player should be able to detect a universal video format […]