Running a disputation on YouTube

Last week, Ulf Holbrook defended his dissertation at RITMO. I was in charge of streaming the disputation, and here are some reflections on the technical setup and streaming. Zoom Webinars vs YouTube Streaming I have previously written about running a hybrid disputation using a Zoom webinar. We have used variations of that setup also for other events. For example, last year, we ran RPPW as a hybrid conference. There are some benefits of using Zoom, particularly when having many presenters....

May 7, 2022 · 5 min · 958 words · ARJ

Embed YouTube video with subtitles in different languages

This is primarily a note to self post, but could hopefully also be useful for others. At least, I spent a little too long to figure out to embed a YouTube video with a specific language on the subtitles. The starting point is that I had this project video that I wanted to embed on a project website: However, then I found that you can add info about the specific language you want to use by adding this snippet after the URL:...

September 3, 2020 · 1 min · 166 words · ARJ

fourMs videos

Over the years we have uploaded various videos to YouTube of our fourMs lab activities. Some of these videos have been uploaded using a shared YouTube user, others by myself and others. I just realised that a good solution for gathering all the different videos is just to create a playlist, and then add all relevant videos there. Then it should also be possible to embed this playlist in web pages, like below:

August 16, 2012 · 1 min · 73 words · ARJ