In this blog we will be looking to illustrate the distinction between AES-128, secure key exchange protocols and DRM systems. Popular Streaming protocols that use secure key exchange are HLS Encryption and RTMP Encryption. Widevine and FairPlay are the major Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems that are necessary for the best content protection. At VdoCipher we are committed to streaming DRM-protected premium content for our customers across all devices. Our video hosting for business enables our customers to stream premium videos on Android Phones, iPhones, iPad, Macs, PCs and Smart TVs. In this blog we seek to explain how AES-128…
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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…
Video Metadata – Optimize to Increase Your Viewers
What is Metadata? Metadata is text inside the video file that references the video. Search engines use video metadata to show video results. YouTube combines video metadata with other video viewership data to determine when to show videos among its top results. Likewise, Content recommendation systems, such as Netflix's famous machine learning algorithms, also use video metadata to accurately personalize videos. How is Video Search different from Web Page Search? The beasts of burden of the internet are the web bots that crawl every single page there is. Web crawlers determine the suitability of a page for search results on two…
A Business & Entertainment History of Streaming Media
With video increasingly becoming the medium of communication over the internet, it is a sobering thought that many of the technologies now being used seamlessly were tried out, at enormous usage costs, in the early-to-mid 90s. Some of the first uses of internet streaming media in this period were: The first major live sports webcast on the internet on September 5, 1995 - a Major League Baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees. A Rolling Stone Live Concert was broadcast live from Cotton Bowl in Dallas on 18 November 1994. Knowing the broadcast channel to be live…
What is Transcoding?
Digital storage of any media requires conversion from analog to a digital format. The initial digital format after media production is still a raw file, and for it to be stored and accessed across different devices it needs to be compressed in the particular digital format compatible across the device. This form of video compression for files to make them compatible with a target device is called encoding. The terms encoding and transcoding are sometimes used interchangeably, inspite of the use-case difference between the two. Generally speaking, encoding refers to the process of converting uncompressed data to a desired format.…
Watermarking to enforce DRM for Protected Streaming
Watermarking is the process of integrating a message within streaming media such as online video, mainly for copyright enforcement. The watermarking message may be made either visible or invisible. The message used in visual watermarking may be the name of the viewer, their IP address, or any details regarding the distribution channel through which the video may have reached the user. When the watermark is clearly visible, the viewer is aware of this copyright protection mechanism, and the watermark acts as a deterrent to online video piracy. On the other hand an invisible watermark is much more difficult to embed, and…
