VdoCipher serves education businesses and individuals who are looking to sell their premium courses on website/app in most secure and smooth manner. A considerable portion of users are on Wordpress. They tend to use a bundle of Vdocipher plugin , some wordpress LMS plugin, LMS theme, Membership & payment plugins to complete their course video website. We thought of providing a step by step guide to do this with wordpress. Please note that this is not endorsement for any particular plugin/theme, we used them because they were decently popular and solved the purpose. Alternative option to them are also listed.…
Video APIs to Automate your Video Workflow – API Version v3
This blog suggests a workflow for automating the video workflow for your website using VdoCipher API v3. Complete details and Sample Codes for the API can be found in the Server API Docs. Our APIs are designed to give you programmatic access to VdoCipher's service, so that you can scale your service by automating the video streaming workflow on your site. Our APIs make it possible for you to create programmed pipelines to automate your business operations. In this blog, you will find APIs covering most important video actions. While the video upload and video management operations can be performed…
3 Ingredients for building a killer Movie Recommendation Engine
The need to develop a video recommendation engine 80% of all content consumed on Netflix is discovered on the platform. This means that 80% of the time that someone spends on the Netflix platform is because of Netflix’s recommendation algorithm. Recommendation engines have become a very common aspect of all Video on Demand Platforms. Each new user might sign up on your platform in search of some specific title but to ensure that they become returning users you do need a personalisation engine in place. For instance, I joined Netflix just because i wanted to watch the TV show called…
Your Guide to Creating an eLearning Business – VOD Platform Playbook
Video on Demand platforms have opened up a plethora of choices for learners. Gone are the days where students would only learn from schools, colleges and other institutions. With the advent of high internet speeds, learning is mostly just a google search away. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) such as EdX, Coursera and MIT OCW have made quality higher learning accessible to anyone across the world. Amongst all these platforms, video has become the most preferred mode of learning. This ebook is designed for entrepreneurs and educators who either want to create or are already running their own e-learning platform. You…
Integrate VdoCipher Secure Videos in LMS, CMS & eLearning Platforms
At Vdocipher, our endeavor has always been to make it easy for content creators to make money from their online videos. We get regular requests from individual teachers and small e-learning companies to guide them on making e-learning portals to sell online courses. Websites to sell online courses can be built either using coding from scratch using PHP/JS/Java etc or using CMS like WordPress/Moodle or using ready-to-use and integrate e-learning portals like Teachable, Thinkific, Learnworlds, etc. The first allows maximum customization and requires maximum hard work while the other two subsequently reduce your efforts to build the site. We generally…
SVOD (Subscriber Video on Demand) vs AVOD (Advertising Video on Demand)
Major Video on Demand (VOD) sites, whether be in Movies and Education rely on SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand ) or AVOD (Advertisement Video on Demand ) models to make revenues. We will discuss today the key aspects of each of theses and the subsequent pros and cons. What is AVOD (Advertisement Video on Demand) ? As in name AVOD, user is not asked for any payments and revenue comes from in video advertising in form of pre roll, mid roll, post roll , text ads etc. Some famous examples of VOD platform with AVOD as major model are Youtube, Hotstar, Dailymotion.…