Finding a video player with subtitles and closed captions support is easy enough, but the player needs to be fully equipped. It must contain other advanced security features and support for customizations. It must be easy enough to add captions not only through a single supported file format like SRT, STL, SCC, RTF, etc, but also through multi-lingual caption support should be there. Multiple language subtitles support is important to cater to your global audience. So let us start with clarifying basic definitions of subtitles and captions, which will make it easy to understand the further interchanging references. Table of…
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AWS S3 Video Streaming & Video Hosting with Amazon CDN and Multi-DRM
Videos significantly increase user engagement, with users spending more time on websites with videos and video content receiving substantially more shares compared to images or text. AWS offers a suite of tools for video hosting, chief among them being Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon S3 is known for its durability, boasting a 99.999999999% durability rate and 99.99% availability, ensuring that videos stored are not only safe but virtually imperishable. Amazon S3 has been providing cloud services since 2006 and reports storing more than 100 trillion objects in S3 servers as of March 2021. It became popular as an easy…
DRM Server Solutions with Widevine License and Apple FairPlay
A server comes from the client-server architecture of online connectivity. It is usually hardware or software that provides functionalities to a client through some devices or software. They can not only store data but also provide computational resources to clients. This relationship is established through a request and response model followed through various available ports. This model is also used to set up a DRM server to provide security solutions to clients like OTT and Online course platforms. Table of Contents: DRM server meaning and Working Who needs a DRM server solution? How to set up a DRM server Challenges…
Best WordPress Video Hosting Plugin & Issues with Self Hosting
When we start setting up a WordPress CMS website as an eLearning or media platform, we often encounter video hosting issues. A lot of WordPress self-hosting users can be seen complaining about the lag on the website, their disk space running out, and even high costs. This issue is easily solvable by using a WordPress video hosting provider with features and costs as per requirements. This helps you scale up your platform with cost-efficient and scalable solutions with more uptime benefits. Not only it is about making the right move against the cost but also about your video’s security as…
Dynamic Watermark Demo: Add User Identifier Text to Videos- User ID, Email ID, Phone No.
Dynamic watermarking means showing user-identifiable data over a video in a moving and non-intrusive manner to ensure the highest protection from screen capture and optimize the viewing experience. Videos hosted through VdoCipher cannot be illegally downloaded through any tools/extensions/downloaders. Screen capture block with 100% surety is possible only in mobile apps and Safari browsers. For Chrome, Firefox, and other browsers, there does however remain the risk of piracy from screen capture. User-based information shown as moving dynamic watermark effectively discourages users from pirating video content using screen capture and goes a long way towards helping users protect their premium content.…
Safeguarding Your Content in 2023: Best Ways to Share Videos Privately
According to stats, just in 2023, an average person has consumed 17 hours of video online per week. That’s huge, right? Video content and sharing are more popular than ever across the world. However, not all videos are meant for sharing publicly. While there are public video platforms like YouTube where most of the content is meant for sharing, the need for private video hosting solutions has also increased to prevent unauthorized access. A perfect example would be a tutor who wants to host his lecture videos for only authorized users (in this case students). Businesses often suffer a heavy…