Amazon S3 has been providing cloud services since 2006 and reports storing more than 100 trillion objects in S3 servers as of March 2021. It became popular as an easy and affordable mode to avail of cloud storage services. But, the ease of integration and scalability keeps the users attached. Even large-scale solution providers like VdoCipher use AWS infrastructure to provide a complete AWS S3 Video Streaming package with integrated security and other features. Table Of Content: What is Amazon S3? AWS S3 History and Infrastructure Design Can Amazon S3 handle HTML5 Video Streaming Planning an AWS based Video Infrastructure…
Best Video Player with Subtitles & How to add Captions [multi Language]
Finding a video player with subtitles and closed captions support is easy enough, but the player needs to be fully equipped. It must contain other advanced security features and support for customizations. It must be easy enough to add captions not only through a single supported file format like SRT, STL, SCC, RTF, etc, but also through multi-lingual caption support should be there. Multiple language subtitles support is important to cater to your global audience. So let us start with clarifying basic definitions of subtitles and captions, which will make it easy to understand the further interchanging references. Table Of…
DRM Server Solutions with Widevine License and Apple Fairplay
A server comes from the client-server architecture of online connectivity. It is usually hardware or software that provides functionalities to a client through some devices or software. They can not only store data but also provide computational resources to clients. This relationship is established through a request and response model followed through various available ports. This model is also used to set up a DRM server to provide security solutions to clients like OTT and Online course platforms. Table Of Content: DRM server meaning and Working Who needs a DRM server solution? How to set up a DRM server Challenges…
Best Video Delivery Platforms with CDN & Content Encryption Support
As we move towards a more digital world, many technologies emerge every day. Some emerge as single solutions providers, and others provide a combination of more than one technology. Though Video Hosting used to be a simple technology for upload and download, it has become advanced and emerged as the video delivery platform. These platforms provide multiple technologies for faster and more secure delivery of your videos. However, you must be very careful when choosing the video delivery platform. Always remember that the video delivery platform and content are two different things. Even if you create a high-quality video, it…
Best Video CDN With Technology, Hosting, Streaming & Caching Explained!
Let’s say John is in New Delhi, India, and wants to stream video content hosted on a website. The website is on a hosted server in California. When another viewer, Anne, who stays 500 km away from California, visits the website, the content loads pretty faster. But for John, who stays 12500 km away, the site takes comparatively more time to load as the website content has to travel more. This is where Video CDN comes to the rescue. The CDN finds an optimal server in physical locations closer to the physical location of the user. CDN distributes the content…
How to Embed Video in HTML using iframe or video tag element
Embedding a video file in an HTML document allows the video playback directly in the web browser without needing a separate video player application. HTML video embedding is also important because it will enable videos to be played on mobile devices that do not have a dedicated video player application. For example, many smartphones and tablets do not have a javascript video player application installed, but they can still play video files embedded in an HTML document. Additionally, HTML video embedding can be used to create a video gallery, where multiple videos can be displayed on a single page. An…