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…
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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…
Redirected: 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…