We are happy to inform you about major updates to our Android Native and React Native SDK to provide new cool features. Android Native SDK: Exoplayer version upgrade - Upgraded Exoplayer dependency to the latest version 2.18.0. Android Native SDK Doc, latest version 1.12.1. Android Video SDK Picture in Picture - You can also implement Picture in Picture mode in your app with our player by following the documentation presented here. Auto-Resume - While generating the embed info for a video, the user can also pass the flag enableAutoResume (default: false), to enable the auto-resume of the video playback from the last watched…
How To Host A Video Online? – Complete Guide
Video has been at the forefront for any business in recent years. Whether it is for explaining your product, creating advertisements, corporate training, entertainment, or even learning, video is at the heart of all these activities. They play a major role in driving consumer action, developing new skills, and education. According to an eLearning study conducted by VdoCipher, about 80% of online learning content is videos. Also, there has been about on average 53% increase in revenue as learning platforms moved to online learning As per the Hubspot report, Almost 86% of businesses use video in their marketing strategy, and…
How to Build your own SVOD Video Subscription Platform
Video subscription platform such as Netflix, Disney plus, Hulu has become an innate part of our life. As the existing platforms have played a firm role in our life, new video platforms keep on rising. Recent advancements in tech have made it easier to build your own video subscription platform. If you are someone who just knows how to produce content, you can build your own OTT platform using various tools and services available, without doing any development of your own. In this blog, I'll explore how you can build your own video subscription platform with tools available online. Also,…
Tech Update: Netflix Updates Codecs Use for Efficient Encoding
Netflix have switched streaming to encoding in H.264 High Profile and VP9 (profile 0), in response to increasing processor capabilities of decoding streams online. The fact that both these compression formats have found broad decoder support from Mobile Hardware and Android OS respectively has motivated this change. Netflix optimize their encoding to H.264 high AVCHi-Mobile (H.264 High Profile) and VP9 Codecs Essentially the difference between baseline, main and high profiles of H.264 encoding is increasing compression efficiency, with the requirement of greater decoding capability. This means that compression in high profile reduces video bitrate for a given stream quality more…
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How to Create Video Hosting Website like YouTube as Streaming Platform
According to Statista, there were 4.95 million worldwide internet users as of January 2022. This accounts for nearly two-thirds of the global population connected to the internet. With such a fast-growing online user base, more and more websites are coming up each day. The count today stands at more than 1.8 billion global websites. Amid such a competitive market, your site must stand out in the crowd and attract search engines to direct traffic to your website. It involves using the latest technologies on your website to have a creative path for the visitor to understand your product or service.…