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 video 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…
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WordPress video hosting plugin : Add Secure Videos to your WP site
Detailed Wordpress Tutorial Video Explaining configuration, watermark, player customization. More details and text explanation after the video. WordPress is one of the fastest ways to build a working website. WordPress and its themes and plugins are used by developers to create truly awesome websites with minimal effort. Many users combine our secure video streaming service with their video membership sites built on WordPress. Here we explain how to add the VdoCipher video player to your site using the VdoCipher WordPress plugin. With the VdoCipher WordPress video hosting plugin, you can stream videos on your WordPress site with the best content protection…
57 Video Hosting Features for Video Platform
We list 57 video hosting features that VdoCipher provides for securing videos from piracy, ensuring smooth playback of videos, and managing videos in bulk via dashboard and API. The features are categorized into various segments for better clarity. Respective tutorial or documentation is linked with each feature. Jump to a particular category for video hosting features by selecting from below. Security Video Player AWS hosting & CDN Dashboard ,Integrations,API/SDKs. (more…)
Video Management details on VdoCipher Dashboard
At VdoCipher we are committed to building the best platform for hosting premium content. While our security features ensure that our secure video hosting beats all competition, we have also made our platform intuitive and easy to use. Here you can find our tutorial videos on upload/import and various other features in detail. Detailed tutorial videos are included below - Upload/Import + Embed overview Dashboard features & video setting details Multi-User addition to account & permission levels Adding more accounts/projects to same dashboard Get all videos data in csv (title, id, status, time added) Generating video page url to share…
PHP sample video upload from browser to VdoCipher
[This article is based on API v2 as documented here.] The Upload API workflow and overview can be found here. Please find below a sample code for enabling video upload from your PHP website's users. Note that this is sample code and you will need to configure it according to the controller-view structure in your application. It is not a recommended to put Controller logic and HTML output in a single file. (more…)
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…