At VdoCipher, we have worked with thousands of online businesses for their secure video hosting. In this period we have developed a broad understanding of the video hosting requirements that businesses have. A number of our customers had previously tried to self-host video content. Here we share our learnings from working with our customers. We see that in many cases, the first idea that comes to the video creator is to self-host videos. This means having an in-house team to handle video streaming & hosting technology. However, handling the video hosting on their own end is often not technically and…
Top 12 WordPress Plugins For E-Learning
Starting out with creating your WordPress online course, but confused about which plugins for E-Learning to choose from? Not sure which functionalities are necessary and which functionalities are optional? In this blog post, I walk you through the most essential WordPress plugins for E-Learning course developers to choose from which will further help you develop a custom WordPress website at its best. Table Of Content: What are WordPress Plugins? How to Install a WordPress Plugin Features of Learning Management System (LMS) Plugins for E-Learning Top 10 WordPress Plugins for eLearning VdoCipher - Best WordPress Plugin for Elearning videos FAQs What…
M3U8 Player, HLS Live Streaming: Trial, Demo & Solution
Start Free HLS Live Streaming Trial M3U8 player with HLS Streaming protocol is a key requirement for setting up a broadcast-level live streaming solution for broadcasters, course creators, and event managers. Live streaming has always been technically challenging; ensuring a smooth playback experience at a high scale requires significant work. This article explains all technical concepts about M3U8 and HLS in simple language, as well as how they can be set up on your own, or with the help of a ready-to-use live streaming solution/M3U8 URL provider. Table of Contents: What Is an M3U8 File? What is M3U8 Playlist? M3U8…
History of Netflix- Founding, Model, Timeline, Milestones (2024 Updated)
Here at VdoCipher, we are in awe of how the history of Netflix has consistently innovated in video streaming. Over the history of Netflix, the company has maintained a content catalog that was earlier delivered via mail. When the technology infrastructure became available Netflix pioneered video technology, which revolutionized home-based video entertainment. The technical decisions that Netflix takes often serve as guides for VdoCipher's course of action, while the long-term vision that the company has executed in its two decades has helped it stand out from the competition. Netflix offers a fantastic glimpse into how long-term strategy and decision-making ensured…
Why is DRM not enough to protect video piracy? What additional measures are required?
For quite a long, it was considered that Hollywood approved DRMs (Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay DRM) is good enough to protect videos from piracy. The technologies which hackers pursue to illegally download content or share illegal access have advanced over the years, and currently DRM is not enough to prevent video piracy. We are listing various reasons why DRM is not enough, and what additional protections are done by VdoCipher to fix each vulnerability. DRM vulnerabilities in past 1 year Extracting video URLs to play outside website/app or app clones Illegal password sharing leading over-usage Screen Capture in some platforms…
Video Metadata – Optimize to Increase Your Viewers
Video Metadata is the textual description of relevant information associated to a video file, such as title, creation date, description, author and more. This information helps in better search, sorting and discovery of video as well as make the video SEO optimised for search engines. Table Of Content: What is Video Metadata? Type of Video Metadata How is Video Search different from Web Page Search? How To Optimize Video Metadata? Is search really all that important? Is Search the only way my users can get new content? Is there other video metadata? Role of Video Metadata in Video SEO FAQs…