Some of the most common questions I get asked on video quality are- What is the size of a video for a certain pixel quality? (Say 1 hour 1080p video) What does kbps mean? How much bandwidth will 1 hour 1000 kbps video consume? I want my videos in 1080/720/480/360 p like Youtube. How does VdoCipher enable that? How many video quality options I need to have to ensure smooth playback across the world? Why does VdoCipher provide video bitrate (kbps) as quality options and not pixels (p)? Here are some key definitions and concepts to help everybody better understand video quality…
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5 Video Encryption Technologies Compared for Video Protection: VdoCipher
TABLE OF CONTENT What is Video Encryption? 5 Types of Video Encryption Technologies: Pros & Flaws What is video DRM encryption & how does it compare to AES 128, HLS E, and others? What encryption is used by VdoCipher? What is Video Encryption & how it relates to Video Protection? When you upload a premium course video, music video, or confidential corporate video, you surely wouldn’t want unauthorized people to access confidential company information. This is where “Video Encryption” technology comes into action for video protection. Downloading videos via free tools & downloaders, unauthorized sharing on torrent/youtube/telegram and other…
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 encoder or converters or transcoders which convert the huge video files into decent size without any visible lose in quality. This video compression is key to 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 top…
Why Not to 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 economically…
Setting desired bitrate for video playback for multiple devices
This method is applicable for videos playing on Flash player. Our HTML5 video player by default selects the best video stream based on user's network conditions (adaptive streaming). This blog references our API version v2. For details on using this feature with our API v3 please visit the Server API Docs Different devices and internet speeds require different video bitrate to be served. Based on device type and your viewer connection, some of you may opt to initiate video streaming at a particular bitrate. You may want to provide playback at a certain quality or constrain network data for users. Video…
AWS + CDN Infrastructure: Hosting, playback details explained in video
Video Hosting & Streaming for premium use cases require a robust, scalable and secure infrastructure. I will give a brief overview of the tech stack deployed by VdoCipher in terms of Amazon AWS Server (S3), CDN (AWS Cloudfront), Encoding infrastructure (based on EC2) to effectively ensure the smoothest delivery of video content. Here are the details explained in a video.