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…
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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.…
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.
Faster video upload to VdoCipher: AWS acceleration + Aspera
Now you can enjoy speedy video upload even of large size from your dashboard & APIs to VdoCipher dashboard. The speedy functionality works with all kinds of video upload- from desktop, ftp, url, server, dropbox. The speeds of video upload to VdoCipher servers now show improvements typically in the range of 50% to 500% for cross-country transfer of larger objects, but can go ever higher under certain conditions. Technology behind faster uploads: AWS S3 accelerations - Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket. Transfer Acceleration takes advantage of…
ASP.net C# web forms embed vdocipher video
The following code is the complete set up for embedding video in ASP.NET Web forms using vdocipher secure streaming. This code has been generated using Visual Studio Community 2015. For the MVC implementation, please check: https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/2016/02/example-code-for-streaming-protected-video-in-asp-net/ For vbscript implementation of aspx, check this: https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/2015/01/asp-net-implementation-vdocipher-api/ Vdocipher video in asp.net: aspx and aspx.cs files: https://gist.github.com/vibhavsinha/cd81f160c6d23093aa38 Do not save API Secret in the code API secret is a key which gives your website authority to generate access tokens (OTPs) for video playback. This secret key can also be used to upload, delete videos in your vdocipher account. Hence, it should not be hard-coded in the application. It should be…
Video upload from website or server to VdoCipher API
[Update 24/05/2018] This blog has been updated for API Version v3. A previous version of this blog used API v2. If you are using API v2 you can contact us at support@vdocipher.com. You can use VdoCipher API v3 to build a workflow around your video website as suggested in this blog. The complete API v3 reference, with sample codes for different backend languages, can be accessed from the API Sample Docs. We use Amazon AWS storage to store original user videos securely in AWS S3. With an intent to automate their online business, many of our customers wish to allow their users…