If you are a business owner that deals in video content, Chances are that your videos are being pirated and you might be facing a substantial loss of revenue. The movie industry alone incurs a loss of around 40 and $97.1 billion due to digital video piracy. That’s a substantial amount, isn’t it? Video piracy remains a serious threat in 2025, siphoning off revenue and undermining the hard work of content creators. Industry reports estimate that digital video piracy drains over $50-70 billion from the global economy each year and it consumes nearly 24% of worldwide internet bandwidth. For video…
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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…
OTT Platforms: 9 Important Things You Should Know in 2025
OTT Platform in recent years has empowered customers by providing them with a variety of choices for their entertainment needs. Users are no longer tied down to traditional mediums such as satellite cable. Surfing through channels are now a thing of the past, and one can now make informed decisions about what to watch. An extremely high level of personalisation allows these platforms to predict what a user will most likely watch. Worldwide revenue for Over-the-top tv and videos is expected to cross $80 billion by 2022. It is safe to say that this phenomenon is here to stay and…
Guide to Media Streaming Service
Long gone are the days when people have to follow fixed broadcasting schedules and cinema timings to view some limited content. Today people across the globe watch the latest video content, movies, favorite shows, and much more from the comfort of their homes and timings. Streaming media platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ have seen a surge in popularity, with viewers subscribing to these platforms at a very high rate. Subscriptions and usage across all streaming media services have increased and creators are investing their resources in creating ‘Originals’. Specifically, the global video cloud streaming platform and service…
Encrypted Video Streaming: Standard Technologies & VdoCipher Compared
This blog explains VdoCipher security technology using video encryption in detail and compares it with most other providers. Below is a video with all security features explained and compared. After the video is text explanation - The main encrypted video streaming protocols in use by most other streaming providers are: HTTP Live Streaming - HLS Encryption with AES-128 AES 128 Encryption & Sample AES 128 Encryption. Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) and RTMP Encrypted (RTMPE) HLS encryption, with AES-128 bit encrypted streaming, is widely marketed as a secure video encryption streaming protocol used for video protection. Indeed, certain security features…
3 Offline Encoder to Compress Video: MAC & Windows
There are a lot of instances where the raw video file after camera recording is quite large in size. If it is not on a server or URL, it becomes quite difficult to upload it to online sites like VdoCipher. To solve this problem, there are offline encoders or converters, or transcoders which convert huge video files into decent sizes without any visible loss in video quality. This video compression is key to the video processing system. Some of these tools can also be used to convert files into different formats for video and audio. Here are the details of…