Google Maps Asynchronous Loading

While working on a project that uses Google Maps API, I noticed the following problems:

1. The content below Google maps appeared after a slight delay
2. Google PageSpeed Insights kept telling me to "eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content"
3. The maps did not load when the page was loaded via AJAX
4. The maps did not work in jQuery Mobile

All of these problems were caused because I was loading the Google Maps API synchronously. Let me explain. Almost all Google Maps API examples tell you to do this:

Fast-Start Enabled Videos with FFMpeg

MPEG 4 is the most dominant video format for the web, which is supported on a variety of platforms and devices. And FFmpeg is the most popular software for encoding videos. While there are tons of articles about encoding MPEG 4 videos with FFmpeg, most of them fail to warn you about something: most video players will not start the playback until the whole video is downloaded. This could be annoying, especially for large videos.