Some of the most common questions I get asked on video quality are-I want my videos in 1080/720/480/360 p like Youtube. How does VdoCipher enable that?What does kbps mean? How much bandwidth will 1 hour 1000 kbps video consume?How many video quality options I need to have to ensure smooth playback across the world?Why does VdoCipher provide bitrate (kbps) as quality options and not pixels (p)?What is the size of a video for a certain pixel quality? (Say 1 hour 1080p video)Here are some key definitions and concepts to help everybody better understand video quality parameters.Pixels (p) - 1080 / 720 /…
Using VdoCipher
Video Player Themes – Add Custom Skins and Change Player Controls
With WordPress version 1.23 onwards we provide our users with an additional range of colorful video player themes, with customizable player skins. While interface for player customization at thePlayer.io is currently in alpha stage, our design team have made put out a large number of themes. Because our broadest use case is WordPress, we have added an interface so that you can select the theme of your choice from the WordPress settings page for VdoCipher. If you are using other means to embed the video to your website you can edit the video embed code directly to include the player…
Customize Video Player – Change Player Color in WordPress
Many users ask us about changing the video player color to match their website theme. Since all design elements come down to a few CSS elements, we provide the CSS file below so you can edit the player color. We will be looking to make this a much simpler process in the future. This blog will provide steps to change player color for WordPress sites. This CSS file can be used for all other front-end website frameworks. You will be needing to edit the desired color at the 5 positions where the default color (#0294f9) is mentioned. Change Video Player…
Advanced Video Analytics – Understand Your Viewers
There's such a buzz around data these days. Data is everywhere. It is the new oil. But how do you use it to actually meet your business objectives? For video creators, the question becomes: How to use data to improve viewer experience and to reach out to new customers? Our aim for our video analytics solution is to enable our users to get actionable insights about their viewers. The video analytics interface would provide insights into how viewers are experiencing videos. We hope that this would help you understand your viewers better, and power you to make smarter data-driven decisions…
Video CMS – Host, Organize and Share Videos
What is a Video CMS? A video CMS provides simplified workflows for enterprises to store, organize and share their videos. Top online CMS today are WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Moodle. These CMS are designed largely to publish dynamic web pages. Because of its ease-of-use, WordPress powers over 25% of websites on the internet today. These CMS are however unable to host videos by themselves. This is because videos add complex workflows that these minimalist CMS frameworks do not handle on their own. VdoCipher augments these CMS with its video plugin. VdoCipher provides the video storage and organization features that complement the publishing…
Import videos from Box.com
We have just added support for Box.com imports. If you can upload your videos to Box.com, you can import videos directly from Box.com. Steps to Import Videos from Box.Com In your dashboard, go to Import from and choose "Add from Box". This will open a new pop-up window on Box.com. You should be able to choose your video file by selecting the check box. You can select multiple files at the same time. On clicking choose, we shall take up the list of videos and add it to your dashboard. The video will come with Queued status at the beginning.…