Table of Contents: What is UltraViolet? Why a Digital Locker? Where to buy UltraViolet Compatible Film? How to Play? Why do the big majors not support Ultraviolet DRM? What is UltraViolet? When you purchase a film you are actually purchasing a license to watch that film. By default if you purchase a film using Google Play Movies & TV, your license is valid only for viewing on the Google App. The purpose of a Digital Locker system is to bring together rights owners (Movie studios) and streaming platforms (for example Google, Apple, Amazon) to create a centralized information locker where…
DRM
VdoCipher protects user videos with Hollywood-grade DRM. Our DRM systems ensure complete protection for premium videos while delivering the best streaming experience. Learn more about how VdoCipher protects your videos.
Set IP Geo restriction on videos via API/Dashboard: VdoCipher DRM
VdoCipher provides a complete DRM with encryption, backend licensing and viewer specific watermarking to safeguard video content. Sometimes owing to the rights and permissions to distribute a video, businesses look to white-list or blacklist content for certain geographies & IPs. Here is an API guide to do IP & Geo restriction for your VdoCipher account. This should allow you to configure any complicated setting of IP and country restrictions. Rules are defined by a JSON string called rule-set. This JSON contains an array of rule objects: Every rule is an object containing action, ipSet and countrySet Each matching rule overrides the previous matching rule.…
Where does VdoCipher DRM video fit in your tech stack.
Traditional Video integration In case of most media integration, a static media URL is sent to the client. The client can use this to begin playing media. A client in this case can be either a web app or a mobile/tv application. The data to provided to the client is a long-lived url which can be used multiple times. DRM video integration When you are working with premium content, a requirement for secure video hosting is that you give only a one-time usable resource. This URL to DRM video should be generated only when the client is authenticated and has the permission to get access…
VdoCipher shifted to HTML5 Widevine DRM in 2018
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Secure video streaming and hosting: Advances in technology
VdoCipher provides highest secure video streaming in the world market. It is a full packaged video streaming, hosting, Encoding+DRM service offered in easy to use manner. This post presents an overview on various practices adopted by VdoCipher to deliver secure video streaming for its clients. For e-learning and media companies hosting streaming videos on their sites, having a secure video player on the site is the primary requirement. For better user experience, forcing the viewer to install some plugin is also not preferable. VdoCipher ensures that its customers can use secure video streaming without deteriorating the viewer experience. The encryption…
Looking to sell videos online: Protection from piracy
"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. That tension will not go away " -Stewart Brand. This is the nature of information and content being posted on internet these days. Media publishers trying to sell videos online have often heard “ Once you have put your videos online, it is free . There can be no DRM on the internet”. How practical is this argument and are there ways to prevent video download on web? I would like to have a take on the notion considering current legislation and technologies. It is true that a content…