What is HLS Streaming ? HLS Streaming ( HTTP Live Streaming) is a streaming protocol used for video content across desktop and mobile devices. HLS is developed by Apple, which forms the biggest use case for the streaming protocol. Beyond Apple there is wide support for HLS streaming across Android devices and browsers. Indeed, HLS can be used as a streaming protocol for all major browsers, including Chrome and Firefox. In HLS Encryption the video files are encrypted using a secure AES-128 algorithm. The AES-128 is the only publicly available security algorithm that is used by the NSA for encrypting its…
Video on Demand Platform for Media & E-learning Businesses
Video on Demand platforms have opened up a plethora of choices for viewers. Viewers no longer find themselves dependent upon what their cable network is broadcasting at a particular time. Channel surfing is replaced by informed decision making on VOD platform. Strong recommendation systems help show relevant content to users, thereby optimizing user experience. Because of this ability to offer a personalized user experience, Video on Demand Platforms retain a phenomenal ability to engage viewers and keep viewers on their platform. Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have both been aggressively building a vast content catalogue. It is imperative for these Over-the-top…
How to Build an E-Learning Website – 5-Point evaluation
In this blogpost I discuss how you can build an E-learning website. I make the recommendations on the basis of the following five parameters: Technical Skills required to create the website Features and Customization available Cost of solution for building website Time to build solution Expected Number of students and scaling with increasing numbers The four methods that you can use to create your E-learning website are: Coding using PHP/ ASP/Jave/ Node.JS Content Management Systems - WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Moodle Website Builders - Weebly, Wix, SquareSpace E-Learning Website builders - Teachable, WebAnywhere Here is a video explaining in full detail…
Gold Standard in Video DRM: Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award
[caption id="attachment_1304" align="aligncenter" width="461"] VdoCipher Video Hosting Service win at Streaming Media Global Awards 2016[/caption] VdoCipher has once again proved its essence in being world leader in providing highest security video streaming solutions to eliminate online video piracy. Prestigious Streaming Media Global Magazine, European Edition, conducted an online survey and VdoCipher emerged out to be winners for Video DRM and Access Control Category for the year 2016. We are thankful to our customers across 30+ countries, voters and Streaming Media Magazine to honour us with such a privilege.
VdoCipher package Workflow and demo – Secure video streaming
Here is a brief video detailing the features that we offer at VdoCipher, supplemented by screen demos. Here is our statistical research on the prevalence of piracy - we studied usage of piracy tools worldwide in terms of number of unique downloads from video hosting sites. Every 4th computer seems to be using video download tool to pirate content from video streaming sites. Register for a free full version secure video streaming trial at VdoCipher.
Secure Video Streaming API: VdoCipher for Developers
This blog has been updated for API version v3. You may use VdoCipher API v3 to build a workflow around your video website as suggested in this blog. Complete details and Sample Codes for the API can be found in the Server API Docs. In this blog article, I'll mention the common business use cases that generally developers use with our video streaming API. Our video APIs have been built with the express mission to automate the entire video streaming pipeline for our users, from video upload right upto video playback. The links to the new set of APIs and…