"How to Prevent video download?" This has been a major concern for any video platform looking to generate revenue for them. Let’s take a scenario which we recently faced with a customer. Andrew, a product head in a major eLearning video platform based in the USA reached out to us. Their platform allows individual teachers to create courses on their platform. These are pre recorded videos and contain the complete syllabus for the year. Their courses were really popular among students. But they saw a steep decline in the number of sign ups and views of their popular courses. After…
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Best Online Video Player – MP4, H264, Nearly All
Best Online Video Player - MP4, H264, Nearly All When looking for an online video player for your website or app, you might hear the names of quick, easy, and free options readily available to you. However, if you want more control over your video assets with custom capabilities, you might need a fully featured online video player with support for .ogv, .mp4, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .wmv, .3gp, .flv, .webm, .mkv, .mp3, .m4v format. Try Player Now Explore Plans AWS Standard Technology Partner Web ✅ Mac/iOS ✅ Windows ✅ Android ✅ Online Video Player Basics Online Video Player is…
Elearning Video Protection: Protect Videos from Piracy in 2025
According to Dataprot, around 24% of internet bandwidth is used to illegally download or upload copyrighted content online. This also includes lot of e-learning and media video content. Piracy continues to grow, as pirates find creative ways to download and illegally share content. Park Associates stated that revenue loss due to video piracy can exceed $61 billion in 2020. For 2023, this revenue loss is projected to be around $63 billion. It's high time you think about video protection for e-learning and movies! We cover various methods, technologies & statistics on both video piracy and video protection in this blog.…
What is Video Resolution, Types, Advantages & Disadvantages
Whether you are a content creator, a video producer, or even just stream videos online. You'd have come across the term video resolution several times. The resolution of a video or an image basically tells you the quality of a video and determines how clear a particular video is. A higher-resolution video would have crisper and clearer images, as there are more pixels. Ultimately giving you better video quality. We will explain what a video resolution is, why it is important, and also discuss its various types to make you understand the difference between aspect ratios. Table Of Content: What…
Why Not to Self Host Your Own Videos? Challenges in Self-hosting videos
At VdoCipher, we have worked with thousands of online businesses for their secure video hosting. In this period we have developed a broad understanding of the video hosting requirements that businesses have. A number of our customers had previously tried to self-host video content. Here we share our learnings from working with our customers. We see that in many cases, the first idea that comes to the video creator is to self-host videos. This means having an in-house team to handle video streaming & hosting technology. However, handling the video hosting on their own end is often not technically and…
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: How It Works and Why It Matters?
You'd have noticed that 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 since your internet can't download the video files fast enough to keep up with the video playback. This is why in many…