Any good LMS would be incomplete without any video content. Although you can directly upload videos in your LMS, it is not the best way to do it though. It can slow down your website, and the video delivery might not be the best. Your videos won’t be that secure, quality might not scale with the network, the player might not be as per your requirement and much more. This is where Video LMS comes in.<\/p>\n
These are video hosting platforms that are easily integrable into any LMS platform<\/a>. All you’d have to do is upload your videos to those platforms and embed them on your website. Find out more in the article below.<\/p>\n \u00a0TABLE OF CONTENT<\/strong><\/p>\n Video LMS is basically a video hosting solution<\/a> that helps LMS to stream videos online. Recent years have seen a vast number of e-learning platforms ranging from several teachers to individual teachers coming online in order to stream their content.\u00a0<\/p>\n With the help of LMS any teacher without prior knowledge can easily stream content online. All you have to do is create your content and the website. The video hosting part can be easily done with the help of an LMS and video hosting. LMS allows you to set up your own website, structure your courses, and set up payment gateway and user login.\u00a0<\/p>\n With a video hosting solution, you’ll ensure that your content is hosted securely with added benefits of analytics, a custom video player<\/a>, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n Explore More \u2705<\/p>\n Host Your LMS Videos With VdoCipher<\/a><\/p>\n VdoCipher helps 3000+ customers in over 180+ countries to host their videos securely, helping them to boost their video revenues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As a content creator with an LMS, the first thought that might come to your mind might be to host your video content on the LMS itself. This might sound like a good idea at first but it is quite the opposite.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hosting your videos on the LMS might result in a slower website, as every time the page loads, your video will load as well. This can be bad for the user experience as anyone with a slow internet connection might face problems accessing your content which ultimately results in them dropping away from your website. So, the best option in such a scenario would be to go for a good video hosting service.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here are a few more reasons why it’s not the best idea for you to host your videos on your LMS system<\/a><\/p>\n Video hosting players come with a wide range of features that gives you a great user experience. Ensuring that your videos are being streamed seamlessly. It is vital to make sure that your video hosting service has all the right features you might need to give you and your users an optimal experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here are some of the features you should definitely consider while picking the right video hosting solution for your LMS.<\/p>\n DRM Encrypted Streaming<\/b><\/p>\n Multi-DRM<\/a> Encrypted Streaming is the gold standard of encrypted video streaming<\/a> right now.\u00a0 DRM-encrypted streaming means that your content is encrypted and the encrypted keys are hidden by the DRM. Anytime an authorized user wants to access the content a license request is created and validated before they stream the video content.\u00a0<\/p>\n Any content streamed through DRM can\u2019t be downloaded, on top of it, screen recording is prevented on most devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n This way DRM protects your content from piracy, helping you to boost the revenue you were losing due to piracy. Allowing you to retain ownership of your content and prevent any unauthorized access.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dynamic Watermarking<\/b><\/p>\n Dynamic Watermarking is another layer of security over DRM. In this case, a text overlay consisting of user\u2019s information is shown on the video, consisting of user id, name, email address or IP. This helps in identifying any source of the leakage of content. Ultimately deterring any screen recording that a user might do.\u00a0<\/p>\n Custom Video Player<\/b><\/p>\n An easy-to-use player along with custom controls and branding is a must. Your users interact with your content through the custom video player<\/a>. Thus it is imperative that your users experience is tailored according to the content you provided. These can be chapters to segment your video content more effectively. Caption search in order for users to find specific content. Also, how you can easily change the controls.\u00a0<\/p>\n Video APIs, SDKs, and Plugin\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Video APIs<\/a> help you to automate a lot of tasks, which can be managing your videos with the help of APIs, automating video upload, and generating OTP for video playback.\u00a0<\/p>\n SDKs helps you to integrate video playback in android, react native<\/a>, flutter and more. Make sure that if you want to stream your content in them, your video platform provider does give you an option to integrate with the help of SDK.\u00a0<\/p>\n A lot of video hosting solutions provide easy to use plugins for CMS like WordPress, Moodle, and more. These plugins make it very easy for you to stream the content. All you need to do is install the plugin, and upload and embed your videos, without going through much hassle.<\/p>\n Adaptive Bitrate Streaming<\/b><\/p>\n Your users might be from the remote corners and some might not have access to good internet. This is where Adaptive bitrate streaming<\/a> comes in, what it essentially does is change the quality of video automatically according to the user’s network. If the network is great it\u2019ll show better quality and as it scales down, the quality does as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n Acess controls based on URL, Geolocation, and Time Expiration<\/b><\/p>\n While setting up authorization of a particular video, you can put various access controls over it. You can restrict particular IPs, stream content in a particular geolocation and even set a time expiry date for the videos.\n
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What Is a Video LMS?<\/b><\/h2>\n
Why do you need to Host your Videos Separately for your LMS?<\/b><\/h2>\n
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What to Look for in Video Solution for LMS?<\/b><\/h2>\n
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