Creating a website on WordPress is easy but online video hosting for WordPress is a little difficult. There are so many parameters you need to take into consideration while hosting. There are multiple platforms and unlimited plugins available in the market and it is difficult to choose from one of them. Especially for those content creators and distributors who don’t know how to implement the things technically. In this post, we are going to tell you the features of the Vdocipher player and how to add a Vdocipher player in your WordPress website by using our WordPress plugin. Vdocipher provides…
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An Introduction to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) For DRM Systems
Encrypted Media Extensions is a JavaScript API that enables content protection for premium videos in the browser. EME is important in how a DRM system works. EME API is a W3C-recommended standard, meaning that streaming media applications are interoperable across different browsers irrespective of the underlying DRM system. The cryptographically trusted agent of DRM systems inside browsers is the Content Decryption Module (CDM). The CDM works by receiving the content keys from the remote DRM License Server. The Content Decryption Module then uses the content keys to decode encrypted videos for playback. Streaming media applications use the EME API to…
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…
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 & Why It is Important For Video Streaming?
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. 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. What is Transcoding & How Does it Differ From Encoding? Generally speaking, encoding refers to the…