The initial developments of video compression technologies in the 1980s and the growth and popularity of the Internet in the 1990s motivated the concept of streaming videos over the Internet to many potential clients. For much of the 1990s, research in academia and industry focused on designing and implementing new protocols to stream internet videos from dedicated streaming servers. VOD Streaming Services made their first appearance in the early 1990s. Video on demand is a technology that allows users to select and watch video content on their computers or mobile devices. It is a type of streaming media, meaning that…
What is DRM Protection Technology, its Working & Types for Media
The rise of digital media and modern technologies has vastly raised the copyright-owning concerns of organizations and individuals. In just a few clicks of a mouse, many copyrighted images, videos and audio files get downloaded or shared without prior permission. In addition, modern techniques and tools have made it easy to convert media (mostly copyrighted) into various digital forms for easy portability and sharing. This is known as ripping, and the best possible solution to it is using DRM technology. This combines with the internet and hundreds of file-sharing tools (like Torrents) to make unauthorized large-scale distribution of copyright media…
AWS DRM or Digital Rights Management Solution Providers & Benefits
DRM keeps the digital content secure and helps in minimising online piracy and unauthorised access to premium content. AWS DRM works in various ways, such as limiting the number of devices consuming the media, restricting how the media is loaded/downloaded and much more. DRM services are developing in response to the rise of online piracy owing to the extensive use of peer to peer exchange models. DRM restricts the file playback to users who have authenticated with a third-party DRM license server. AWS DRM does so by packaging a DRM header in the segment of the file. The DRM package…
What is Video Bandwidth ? 720p, 1080p, GB Transfer Explained
Internet capacity is robust, but now that we’re all working from home, there has been a massive increase in global internet consumption beyond its usual spike. In 2020, The European Union called on streaming services like YouTube and Netflix to scale back their offering to prevent broadband networks from crashing. This means offering videos in SD rather than HD to reduce global bandwidth consumption. Videos are by far the biggest consumer of bandwidth and as per the CISCO report, streaming three hours of video content generates more Internet traffic than whole household consumption. This is how important video bandwidth is.…
Firefox DRM Basics and How to Enable Disable Content Protection
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a set of access control licensing used by online video and audio services to enforce their content usage policies. For enforcement, DRM is also used to impose limitations on browser capabilities. With the evolution of web technologies, many services have transitioned towards HTML5 videos with DRM piracy protection. This necessitated an adoption by browsers for implementing DRM mechanisms like the Content Decryption Module (CDM). Firefox, recognizing the need to support modern web standards and user experience, incorporates the Google Widevine CDM to facilitate the playback of DRM-controlled content which may require enabling Firefox DRM through…
Widevine Content Decryption Module or CDM DRM & its browser components
Digitalization of media assets such as video, audio, software, images, and PDFs has challenged traditional copyright laws. Sensitive documents, video footage, premium content have a very high value than the cost incurred to create. These multimedia contents are often illegally reused, remixed, and later republished. Hence comes the need for a proper protection mechanism of digital assets. With digital storage, there is always a risk of unwanted access to your library. No one wants their files to be illegally downloaded, shared or uploaded on unauthorized networks. Distributors and asset owners now have access to a range of content protection technologies…