Table of Contents: What is UltraViolet? Why a Digital Locker? Where to buy UltraViolet Compatible Film? How to Play? Why do the big majors not support Ultraviolet DRM? What is UltraViolet? When you purchase a film you are actually purchasing a license to watch that film. By default if you purchase a film using Google Play Movies & TV, your license is valid only for viewing on the Google App. The purpose of a Digital Locker system is to bring together rights owners (Movie studios) and streaming platforms (for example Google, Apple, Amazon) to create a centralized information locker where…
Virtual Classroom: Learning beyond four walls
While education is the backbone of a nation, educators are its builders. Teaching has always been regarded as a noble profession. From history to present times, teachers are regarded as quite an important part of any society. The quality of education that children all over the receive is a matter of global concern. In the 21st century, teaching through "virtual classroom" has become a blessing for both the student and the teacher. With this, there has been a rise of what one would call "modern" educators. They are teachers who connect with students across the world through online platforms and…
Shemaroo to launch VOD platform via streaming app
The space of VOD platform is heating up in India. Almost every big production house has launched its video streaming app. Be it hotstar, Sonyliv, Alt Balaji or Zee Studios. Foreign players like Netflix and Amazon Prime are also staking their claims launching their respective video streaming app and website. Shemaroo Entertainment Limited has had various agreements with OTT platforms like YouTube, Hotstar, Reliance Jio, Apple iTunes, Google Play, YuppTV. etc regarding the distribution of its content. Prior to 2016, Shemaroo was in the distribution agreement with Magna Publishing Company to publish its content digitally for video streaming. In April 2016, Shemaroo Entertainment Limited coupled…
WordPress LMS Plugin Sensei & LMS theme for Course Website Creation: Guide
VdoCipher serves education businesses and individuals who are looking to sell their premium courses on website/app in most secure and smooth manner. A considerable portion of users are on Wordpress. They tend to use a bundle of Vdocipher plugin , some wordpress LMS plugin, LMS theme, Membership & payment plugins to complete their course video website. We thought of providing a step by step guide to do this with wordpress. Please note that this is not endorsement for any particular plugin/theme, we used them because they were decently popular and solved the purpose. Alternative option to them are also listed.…
Video APIs to Automate your Video Workflow – API Version v3
This blog suggests a workflow for automating the video workflow for your website using VdoCipher API v3. Complete details and Sample Codes for the API can be found in the Server API Docs. Our APIs are designed to give you programmatic access to VdoCipher's service, so that you can scale your service by automating the video streaming workflow on your site. Our APIs make it possible for you to create programmed pipelines to automate your business operations. In this blog, you will find APIs covering most important video actions. While the video upload and video management operations can be performed…
3 Ingredients for building a killer Movie Recommendation Engine
The need to develop a video recommendation engine 80% of all content consumed on Netflix is discovered on the platform. This means that 80% of the time that someone spends on the Netflix platform is because of Netflix’s recommendation algorithm. Recommendation engines have become a very common aspect of all Video on Demand Platforms. Each new user might sign up on your platform in search of some specific title but to ensure that they become returning users you do need a personalisation engine in place. For instance, I joined Netflix just because i wanted to watch the TV show called…