Update 30 May 2018: This blog refers to API version 2, which has been succeeded by API version v3. We recommend that you use API version v3 as part of your video workflow. You can currently access account bandwidth usage in the VdoCipher Dashboard. Please let us know at support@vdocipher.com if you would like to check bandwidth usage using API v3. We provide data on your video usage streaming in terms of the bandwidth used and the total storage billed for the day. These data are deducted from the plan you have purchased. Account usage is updated daily at 5 am UTC everyday.…
Video upload from website or server to VdoCipher API
[Update 24/05/2018] This blog has been updated for API Version v3. A previous version of this blog used API v2. If you are using API v2 you can contact us at support@vdocipher.com. You can use VdoCipher API v3 to build a workflow around your video website as suggested in this blog. The complete API v3 reference, with sample codes for different backend languages, can be accessed from the API Sample Docs. We use Amazon AWS storage to store original user videos securely in AWS S3. With an intent to automate their online business, many of our customers wish to allow their users…
Redirected: Add videos in rails app with VdoCipher ruby gem
VdoCipher videos can be added into any Ruby on Rails application without worrying about API code and setup. VdoCipher ruby gem does all the API related work for you. https://rubygems.org/gems/vdocipher Getting started Add this line to your Gemfile in your rails application gem 'vdocipher' And in your required controller add these lines require 'vdocipher' ... vdo_api = VdoCipher.new(clientSecretKey: "CLIENT_SECRET_KEY"); @embedcode = vdo_api.play_code("VIDEO_ID", "style=\"height:400px;width:640px;max-width:100%%;\""); Now in your view file, output the embed code where you like to embed videos. <%= @embedcode.html_safe %> You can add any attributes other than id in the play_code function for video container. The div id is assigned internally…
Asynchronous video embed
We have released a new embed script to be used for VdoCipher videos which is faster than the earlier embed code. The earlier embed code used to wait for the player script to load before rendering the page after video player. This was a serious delay in page load time and affected the user experience. We have changed to asynchronous code which does not affect the page load time while making player loading even faster. Asynchronous scripts are much faster in situations where the rest of the web page does not depend on a single widget. This is the situation in most cases of video players. Hence, we have created…
Redirected: Adding videos from URL
You can easily add videos saved in your server to your vdocipher account. All you need is a publicly accessible link to the media file. This videos will be ready to use in your vdocipher dashboard. Import URL API call: POST https://api.vdocipher.com/v2/importURL?url=<url_encoded_link> PostData: clientSecretKey=CLIENT_SECRET_KEY Replace the CLIENT_SECRET_KEY with the API key provided on sign-up. Returns: { id: "---------------", status: "Queued" } The returned data can be either XML or JSON. This will tell you the id of the newly created video. Note that after adding, it can take up to five to fifteen minutes for the video to…
Joomla embed to secure videos with VdoCipher
Kindly use iframe embed in Joomla site. Our Joomla plugin is outdated and can not work now. Iframe Embed tutorial