Using VdoCipher
Secure Video Streaming API: VdoCipher for Developers
This blog has been updated for API version v3. You may use VdoCipher API v3 to build a workflow around your video website as suggested in this blog. Complete details and Sample Codes for the API can be found in the Server API Docs. In this blog article, I'll mention the common business use cases that generally developers use with our video streaming API. Our video APIs have been built with the express mission to automate the entire video streaming pipeline for our users, from video upload right upto video playback. The links to the new set of APIs and…
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 Management details on VdoCipher dashboard
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 directly to user (not embedding) Video settings overview (Thumbnail, title, tags, subtitles, replace video) Thumbnail & title change: Tutorial Subtitle addition (Multiple Language supported) Replace/Swap/Update Videos Video Files & Thumbnails Generated data & total storage for a video Api key generation (Client Secret key for your account) Webhooks to fetch video status via…
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…