We often admire cinematographers and directors for creating masterpiece movies and videos. But the question is, who made this possible and How the Video Frame Rate come into the picture? Before videos and films, we were only able to see the real motion of the world at a standard speed, but thanks to Eadweard Muybridge, who accidentally invented motion pictures. Muybridge wanted to examine the running pattern of horses and thus, created a system of photo cameras that were triggered to capture the horse's motion sequentially. On inspecting, he realized that closely related images in chronological succession could mimic movements.…
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Encoding vs Encryption : What Is The Difference And What They Mean For Video Streaming?
Encoding and encryption are two techniques that play a crucial role in the transmission, exchange, storage, and creation of digital content be it plain text or rich media. Encryption employs an algorithm that takes in either plain text or metadata of rich media and converts it into a pseudo-random string of hexadecimal called a hash. Hash is incomprehensible unless decrypted with a private key. Your passwords, credit card numbers, WhatsApp messages, and Facetime calls all are converted to a hash before being transmitted to the network. Encoding is required because the format you capture content in and the format…
How To Implement Shaka Player For DRM playback
If you are looking to stream your content along with DRM, chances are that you're bound to come across Shaka player. As an open-source JS library, the Shaka player is widely used for adaptive video streaming. You can play content based on DASH and HLS, without browser plugins, with the help of an Encrypted media extension. So, in order to help others out and make it easier for others to learn about using Shaka player for DRM playback, I wrote this article. So, without further ado, let's get started. What is Encrypted Media Extension (EME) DRM playback is based on…
Video Aspect Ratio Explained with Best YouTube, Instagram dimensions
In the year 1997, my friend's father bought their first television set with a wider screen. When I watched an old Charlie Chaplin movie on the new television, I noticed a black band on each side of the screened video. Now, we called the technician assuming it to be a technical glitch. When the technician saw that, he was the first who brought the term "Video Aspect Ratio" to my knowledge. That television set was intelligent enough to place the black bands on each side of the video so as to avoid any distortion of the video. Table Of Content:…
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: How It Works and Why It Matters
We've all been in situations where a video would end up taking forever to buffer. You'd rather leave the video platform than be patient enough to sit through a poor-quality stream. As a user, you always have the option to go to another platform. But as a video platform, this can be really bad news, as you end up losing your important users. Poor quality streams usually happen when your internet speed fluctuates and your video starts buffering. Buffering happens due to the fact that your internet can't download the video files fast enough to keep with the video playback.…