In the year 1997, my friend's father bought their first television set with a wider screen. When I watched an old Charlie Chaplin movie on the new television, I noticed a black band on each side of the screened video. Now, we called the technician assuming it to be a technical glitch. When the technician saw that, he was the first who brought the term "Video Aspect Ratio" to my knowledge. That television set was intelligent enough to place the black bands on each side of the video so as to avoid any distortion of the video. Table Of Content:…
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Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: How It Works and Why It Matters
We've all been in situations where a video would end up taking forever to buffer. You'd rather leave the video platform than be patient enough to sit through a poor-quality stream. As a user, you always have the option to go to another platform. But as a video platform, this can be really bad news, as you end up losing your important users. Poor quality streams usually happen when your internet speed fluctuates and your video starts buffering. Buffering happens due to the fact that your internet can't download the video files fast enough to keep with the video playback.…
YouTube vs Wistia vs Vimeo: Pricing, Player, Copyright & APIs Compared
Video has been one of the revolutionary trends for marketing strategy across the globe. The preference for video content is not just limited to entertainment purposes, and they extend to brands. For brands and video marketing experts, major differentiable features of their video hosting requirements include pricing, player customization, analytics, copyright/security and others. To cater the same, we have analyzed Vimeo, Wistia & YouTube to find out the best one for your Online Video Business requirements and to even draw a better comparison. Table Of Content: Video Player customization options Dashboard and Video Analytics YouTube vs Wistia vs Vimeo Copyright…
Online Video Watermarking: Encoding & Overlay
Online Video Watermarking has been an essential part of controlling video piracy to a considerable extent. Video piracy is the act of acquiring or copying someone else's content. And then selling or distributing a copyrighted video without the consent of the copyright owner. Over the past few years, it has become a major concern for e-learning content producers, broadcasters and movie producers. However, with the availability of high-speed internet and a pool of Internet streaming sites, a pirated copy is readily accessible to a global audience for viewing online and downloading within just days of its release to theatres. Here…
Video Embedding using WordPress LMS Plugins
VdoCipher offers seamless integration with the online course platforms and LMS platforms like Teachable vs Thinkific vs Kajabi. However, if you've got a WordPress site, in that case, we provide a Wordpress plugin that works with the most popular WordPress LMSes and can be used to secure course videos in the WordPress LMS platforms. Here we take examples of 5 WordPress LMS platforms - LifterLMS, WpCourseLMS LearnPress, TutorLMS, Learndash and explain steps to embed. LifterLMS WpCourseLMS LearnPress TutorLMS LearnDash First Step -By now you must have installed and activated the VdoCipher's wordpress video hosting plugin in your wordpress account and…
Top 31 Online IAS Coaching Platforms with Lecture & Test factors explained
India is a country of over 1.2 billion people, with a literacy rate of about 80%. Becoming a civil servant means being in the top 500 people for that year, and it is a one in a million possibility. With each passing year, UPSC can be considered the most challenging entrance exam, first owing to the diverse subjective nature of the paper and second to the tough selection ratios. So, though "Hard work is key to success" is a common term, just hard work for such a competitive (probably the most in the world) does not guarantee selection. Here is…