• Monetize your original content like a course
• Distribute your movie or television serial
• Or looking to explain your product to customers
• Or trying to promote and market your business,

Videos are an essential part of businesses. Online video hosting for businesses thus requires a variety of feature sets customized to particular business needs.

VdoCipher’s business video hosting has a full package offering for all types of businesses. The following post mentions the solutions for each of the industries and relevant features in detail

The first part of the blog has explanations on basis of features while in the second part we discuss our video solutions for businesses in Corporate Training, E-Learning, Publishers, Marketing, and Movies & Online Television.

Business Video Hosting Features

At VdoCipher we have optimized every stage of our video hosting for business , and here I go through the feature set that makes VdoCipher the ideal secure video streaming package for your business requirements. 

1. Video Upload and Transcoding

Upload using IBM’s Aspera and Amazon’s S3 Acceleration

Video is uploaded from the device using IBM’s Aspera high-speed transfer and stored privately on Amazon S3 Bucket. Minimizing the time of video upload is an absolute priority for us, and for this, we use services from IBM and Amazon to ensure that your video upload takes minimal time. We have fast-tracked the process so that you can start your video customization right away, and get back at your business.

You can also use Dropbox for transferring your business videos directly to our servers. We also enable video transfer from Public URL, and also from user accounts on Vimeo Pro and Wistia.

Encoding

We have set up our custom encoding protocol as an Amazon EC2 instance, to speed up video encoding.

As encoding takes considerably more time in the process of video upload, we recommend that for videos of size greater than 1GB you use offline encoders or any of the free online options available. You can then choose to cancel the video encoding option at the time of upload.

2. Video Management for Business Video Hosting

Dashboard

Your Video Dashboard serves as the one-stop destination for you to manage your videos effectively. We have enabled a grid view for the dashboard for the ease-of-use. Video upload and video settings can be directly changed at the Dashboard – for each video you may change the thumbnail, bitrate, and online video player size directly from the dashboard. Encoding can occur in different bitrates for desktop and for mobile.

The easy-to-use GUI means that once you start using VdoCipher you can directly start using secure video hosting for business without further customization.

Video Search Using Video ID and name

Every video uploaded is assigned a video ID, and is identified by its name. You may search for your videos using your video ID and name.

Video Search Using Tagging

You can directly tag your videos for easy categorizing and searching for videos within the dashboard.

 3. Secure Video Streaming

Security of video content from piracy is a key concern associated with video hosting for business. VdoCipher ensures that the content streamed through us is protected from any downloader, plugin, software, or hack. To cater to secure business video hosting requirements and ensure video protection, VdoCipher uses a set of proprietary encryption and watermarking technologies. Features of the online DRM that the video player uses are described below.

Akamai and Amazon CloudFront CDN network

We employ CDNs provided by Amazon CloudFront and Akamai to ensure that your videos reach your viewers quickly and with minimal latency. CDNs work on the principle of caching of videos on local servers so that when viewed in the vicinity of the Point of Presence the video can be smoothly seen.

Server-side Encryption

We have developed our own custom server-side encryption for storing and streaming videos on Amazon servers.

Multi-Bitrate Streaming

VdoCipher encodes video files as multiple copies, of different resolutions and bitrates. This gives your users choose to watch low bitrate videos when they would like to optimize their data usage.

One-time URL accessed through embed code

We create our own one-time user playback URL, at the time of video player initialization. This URL is only accessed through the custom embed code in the player and is therefore not public.

Backend Authentication Using OTP

The encrypted stream content is encrypted inside the player with a dynamic key. Our proprietary key transfer protocol is entirely private, unlike the public or semi-public key transfer involved in HLS, HTTPS, and RTMPE.

Dynamic Watermarking

Using dynamic watermarking you can deter piracy through stream recording software. A watermark is laid on the video player, which identifies the user session like IP address, user id, email id, timestamp, etc. Read on to learn more about our dynamic watermarking technology.

URL Whitelisting for Video Embed codes

Along with video encryption and a watermark to prevent the download of content, VdoCipher provides an added layer of security from link-based sharing. This is done through URL whitelisting. While other providers allow you to only restrict the main domain site, allowing loopholes in security; VdoCipher allows you to whitelist exact page URL e,g whitelist can be set on www.example.com/blog/paid_course and www.example.com as well. Restriction on the first URL will ensure that your videos don’t play outside the login access of users.

4. Custom Video Player

Buffer Retention

VdoCipher custom video player is a progressive media player – the stream is buffered from the start of playback. The player buffer is conserved throughout the period of playback so that your viewers can move ahead and back within the video playback without the need for additional buffering. This means that your viewers will need less bandwidth for your videos.

Customizable Player: Color, Controls, Call to Actions, Mail Capture

We provide customization so that the smart video player embedded is in sync with your website design. Our custom features include additional controls such as player seek, changing sound, toggle fullscreen, and adding custom skin. Additional custom offerings include adding buttons over players to capture email ids or to take the viewer to your website pages. All of these customizations are possible with the VdoCipher custom player.

Thumbnail Customization

You can set the image for your video thumbnail to make your video more appealing. This would be the image shown on your video player before playback starts. Designing a good thumbnail image makes it much more likely that the viewer will watch your video.

5. Usability through APIs

Developer-friendly API

We have a well-documented set of APIs for your developers to integrate the VdoCipher media player on your website.

WordPress Plugin

You can use our WordPress plugin to embed your videos on your WP site. This feature is very easy-to-use – it can be done through WordPress shortcodes.

6. Device Compatibility

Desktop

Videos can directly work in all browsers (chrome, firefox, IE, Opera) on all desktop(Windows, Linux, Mac) devices.

Android – SDK integration to App

Our streaming + custom player can be integrated with Android SDK for your mobile app for secure playback on Android Devices. We have developed ZenPlayer – our mobile app video player for customers who wish to provide their course on browsers. We also support mobile browser playback through HTML5

iOS – SDK integration to App

Browser HTML5 playback is available. We also provide iOS SDK, for seamless video playback on your iOS app.

7. Analytics

Using VdoCipher you can access detailed video analytics per video for viewer data, using our APIs and dashboard features.

8. Pricing

Pay-per-use model

Our Pay-per-use model ensures that you are charged proportionately to the bandwidth and storage usage you require. Please visit the pricing page or send us a mail for additional info.

Business Video Hosting Sectors

1. Corporate Training

For businesses, training of existing and new workforce is key to their constant evolution. Adapting to the changes in the market environment swiftly is key to the well-being of any business. For this reason, increasingly a performance-based paradigm is being adopted to enhance learning at the speed of work. VdoCipher appreciates this need of modern-day business video hosting need, and we have designed our online video hosting solution to enable you to impart time-efficient and targeted training through videos.

The performance paradigm of 70-20-10 corporate training signifies that an employee’s learning comprises of:

• 70% of Experiential training
• 20% of Social Learning (Learning from peers)
• 10% of Formal Training

This paradigm signifies learning at the rate of performance, and here the 10% time devoted to formal training is designed to provide an impetus for the 70% experiential learning and the 20% Social Learning.

With VdoCipher you can build a video CMS in combination with popular CMS such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and Moodle.

Using VdoCipher you can securely host your corporate training videos. For this, you can directly upload videos from your device, or from other Cloud Storage (Dropbox) or Video Hosting platform (Vimeo Pro) that you use. Our double layer of security ensures secure storage, encrypted stream delivery, and OTP authentication, thereby making sure that your business videos are not made available outside your organization. Send a mail to info@vdocipher.com for consultation on your custom business requirements.

2. E-Learning

Video in E-Learning is increasingly being used in the space of K-12 education, as well as in preparation for university and professional exams. Video design is a very crucial element engaging learner attention. Schools and colleges may use flipped E-learning methods – using videos to engage students in a topic before class, for more meaningful classroom interaction. Videos, therefore, have a strong ability to augment classroom teaching. VdoCipher appreciates the enormous growth potential in this space, and we work to ensure complete video security for e-Learning businesses. Check out our feature set to learn more about how we provide video hosting for business.

With the increasing emergence of mobile phone devices, we also have support for your Android SDK player. And also we have our own app that your subscribers may use to view our videos. We have also optimized the transcoding process, offering 1080p resolution at bitrates of 300kbps, and 720p resolution at bitrates of 200kbps. This comes from our learnings with working closely with many E-Learning customers, assisting them in providing high-quality videos for all kinds of users at different user bandwidths.

Feel free to send us a mail at info@vdocipher.com for a consultation on adapting a business video hosting solution for your E-Learning business.

3. Publishers

Online video publishers are increasingly adopting a two-pronged multimedia strategy. YouTube offers publishers the opportunity to leverage a broader audience, a potential for a vast number of pageviews, and an opportunity for viral marketing. Using YouTube publishers can build an online audience. A custom video hosting solution is recommended for a more specific target audience – for example, users who have already expressed interest, or paying subscribers, or both. VdoCipher offers publishers a secure video hosting platform for the requirements of your targetted audience.

You can also integrate call-to-action at the end of the video player, for reaching out to your audience in a more targeted manner. Strategically locating the call-to-action at the end of the video ensures that the viewer sees the option to become a paying customer at the most appropriate time. Call-to-action can be incorporated at any time while playing the video.

Our video platform enables you to optimize the user experience for your audience. Custom player skins. We have optimized transcoding, offering 1080p videos at a minimal bitrate for delivery at 300kbps, for low-motion videos, such as talking head videos, ensuring the best viewer. We also deliver video encoding at 512 kbps for audio solutions, a 16 time better quality than the max 128 kbps video that YouTube and Vimeo offer.

Besides we offer Server-side ad stitching, ensuring that ads are integrated into the video at the server level rather than the browser level, preventing blocking from ad blockers.

We also have support for your Android SDK, and also provide for multi-bitrate streaming using HLS protocol for iOS SDK. With the increasing popularity of mobile, our innovations in the mobile space enable you to reach the maximum audience.

We have leveraged Amazon’s CDN network to ensure localized caching, ensuring that your multimedia stream reaches your audience at the earliest, wherever they are on the globe. Feel free to send us a mail at info@vdocipher.com for a consultation on adapting our video hosting for business solution for your publishing requirements.

4. Marketing

Videos are of increasing relevance to the design of a targeted marketing strategy. An Aberdeen research report found that average website conversion rates for sites that use videos are 4.8%, whereas conversion rates for websites that do not use video stand at 2.9%. Video ensures both information retention, and enhances the quality of the message. In charting out a marketing strategy, the following questions are of relevance:

• What is your target audience?
• What are your priorities when you design your videos?
• Which are the critical stages in your sales cycle when a video will help?

B2B brands require a different marketing strategy than B2C brands. Identifying your niche is critical, and designing videos specifically for that niche is most important. This is because the quality of your audience is the most important factor – you need your ads to appeal to your defined narrow audience, rather than to a general audience. For this, you need to identify what appeals most to your target audience.

For this reason, we strongly suggest that you develop a video marketing funnel – a video marketing strategy from brand awareness to post-sale. This sales funnel approach should be centered on guiding your users throughout the purchase process. At VdoCipher, we offer a secure video hosting for business, for you to design your videos for your marketing strategy. Feel free to send us a mail at info@vdocipher.com for a consultation on adapting our video hosting solution for your marketing requirements.

5. Movies and Online Television

Entertainment videos, including mainstream movies, serials, or independent video content are responsible for most of the internet bandwidth consumption on the internet. Streaming movies online involves a large workflow process, starting from upload, transcoding, streaming, ad-insertion, and subscription management, besides securing content from piracy. VdoCipher video hosting solution provides the complete solution for the requirements for entertainment content hosting, helping you monetize your content most effectively, without fear of losses due to illegal sharing.

For a full free version business video hosting trial, Register now at VdoCipher.

Important FAQs

What are the main features of VdoCipher’s video hosting for business?

VdoCipher offers comprehensive features like video upload and transcoding, secure streaming, custom video player, device compatibility, and analytics.

How does VdoCipher ensure the security of hosted videos?

VdoCipher uses proprietary encryption, watermarking technologies, and secure CDN networks to protect videos from piracy and unauthorized access.

Can VdoCipher’s video hosting be integrated into my existing website or app?

Yes, VdoCipher provides APIs and plugins for easy integration into websites and apps, including a WordPress plugin for embedding videos.

What kind of businesses can benefit from VdoCipher’s video hosting solutions?

VdoCipher caters to various sectors including e-learning, corporate training, online publishing, marketing, and entertainment, offering tailored solutions for each.

Siddhant Jain

CEO, VdoCipher. Writes about video tech, ed tech and media tech.

www.vdocipher.com/

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Los vídeos en línea se están integrando cada vez más en nuestra vida diaria y también se han superpuesto con otros modos de entretenimiento y aprendizaje. Como consecuencia, los sitios web de alojamiento de vídeos son un lugar dedicado para cargar, almacenar y servir este contenido con todas las funciones que requiera el usuario.

¿Qué son los sitios web de alojamiento de vídeos?

Estos sitios le permite cargar, almacenar y distribuir contenido de vídeo para su reproducción a audiencias relevantes en Internet. Sin lugar a dudas, con la popularidad de estos contenidos a lo largo de los años, la demanda de sitios web para el alojamiento de vídeos ha aumentado drásticamente. Esto se debe a que los archivos requieren más espacio de almacenamiento y ancho de banda que el contenido de texto o imagen.

YouTube, una plataforma de alojamiento de vídeos gratuita, es un ejemplo de ello. Los vídeos en estas plataformas se cargan a través de su sitio web, app de escritorio o móvil, o API.  Los vídeos están alojados en sus servidores con la funcionalidad de incrustar códigos para agregarlos en su página de blog o en cualquier sitio web de terceros.

Los vídeos pueden ser alojados por uno mismo o utilizando sitios web de alojamiento. En el autoalojamiento, los vídeos se alojan en el servidor de su sitio web al igual que otros archivos multimedia, a diferencia de un sitio web de alojamiento de vídeos. Aunque usted tiene un control completo sobre el contenido, muchas implementaciones técnicas deben realizarse desde su lado. Del mismo modo, el alojamiento de vídeos puede ser costoso debido al ancho de banda y el almacenamiento. Además, existen riesgos de seguridad asociados con el autoalojamiento, ya que los vídeos no están encriptados correctamente.

Sitios web para el alojamiento de vídeos pagados y gratuitos

Un sitio web de alojamiento de vídeos gratuito tiene limitaciones de ancho de banda, funciones y acceso. En su mayoría, estos sitios web restringen la cantidad de cargas y tienen una disponibilidad de ancho de banda limitada. Plataformas como YouTube ofrecen alojamiento gratuito, pero con limitaciones.

Como estos sitios web no cobran por el alojamiento de vídeos, la publicidad es su principal fuente de ingresos. Los algoritmos están diseñados para obtener más clics en los vídeos para que los usuarios no abandonen el sitio web.  Además, el alojamiento gratuito es una buena opción para quienes no tengan muchos en su cartera o quieran compartir algunos vídeos promocionales.

Los vídeos alojados en sitios web gratuitos no son seguros y se pueden descargar y distribuir fácilmente. En conclusión, estos sitios web de alojamiento de vídeos benefician a aquellos que buscan alojar contenido de forma gratuita y para que cualquier usuario los descargue o comparta.

En comparación con el alojamiento gratuito, los sitios web de alojamiento de vídeos pagados o profesionales, por otro lado, son más confiables y vienen con muchas características y beneficios. Tienen diferentes planes en función de su uso de almacenamiento y ancho de banda y siempre son escalables según los requisitos comerciales. En general, con el alojamiento gratuito, usted no puede esperar funciones de seguridad avanzadas.

Si sus vídeos son confidenciales o está buscando opciones de monetización, su mejor opción es un sitio web o plataforma profesional de alojamiento de vídeos como Vdocipher.  De hecho, si tiene un negocio en el que sus vídeos son confidenciales y necesitan soporte, seguridad, análisis y marca, como una plataforma de eLearning o medios, un servicio gratuito no es el más adecuado. Para esto, VdoCipher es una opción perfecta para empresas, creadores y educadores. Además, VdoCipher es más que un sitio web seguro de alojamiento; desde su cifrado DRM hasta sus descargas seguras sin conexión dentro de las apps, lo tiene todo.

Características imprescindibles de los sitios web de alojamiento de vídeos

API de vídeo

Las API de vídeo facilitan y automatizan la integración y otras funcionalidades sin problemas. Según Forbes, más del 71 % de los desarrolladores planean usar más API el próximo año. Las API de servidores y reproductores pueden automatizar la carga de vídeos, inyectar HTML personalizado en el reproductor o personalizar su diseño.

Entrega de contenido con CDN

CDN es una red distribuida geográficamente de servidores proxy para hacer que la entrega de contenido multimedia sea más rápida y optimizada. Se crea una copia y se almacena en los servidores proxy cada vez que un usuario realiza una solicitud de reproducción. La próxima vez que se realice la misma solicitud, el servidor proxy más cercano al usuario sirve el contenido. Además, esto minimiza la latencia y el almacenamiento en búfer, lo que da como resultado una reproducción ininterrumpida.

Análisis de vídeo

En general, todos los sitios web de alojamiento de vídeos brindan análisis básicos para monitorear su contenido. Los parámetros de análisis de un buen sitio web de alojamiento incluyen el n.º de visitantes, las tasas de conversión, la fuente de tráfico, la tasa de rebote, el tiempo de visualización promedio y las otras métricas de participación. Esta información le ayuda a comprender mejor el rendimiento del vídeo y a adaptar el contenido en función de los datos demográficos.

Acceso de usuario multinivel

La función de agregar varios usuarios a su panel de control es importante para las organizaciones que buscan controles de nivel de acceso para el equipo. Por ejemplo, algunos pueden tener acceso completo, mientras que otros tienen acceso restringido, como solo ver los vídeos. Los diferentes niveles de permisos pueden ser ver, editar o cargar.

Soporte técnico

Hay momentos en los que usted necesita apoyo y orientación de su sitio web de alojamiento. Por eso, ellos deben contar con un sólido servicio de atención al cliente para abordar los problemas que enfrenta el usuario en cualquier momento.  Los diversos modos de contacto pueden ser correo electrónico, llamada o formulario de queja. Por lo general, los niveles de soporte varían según el plan que haya elegido.

Seguridad

Con respecto al alojamiento de vídeos, especialmente vídeos premium, la seguridad es la principal preocupación a abordar. Su contenido no solo está protegido contra el acceso no autorizado y las descargas ilegales, sino que también debe estar bien encriptado. En resumen, ningún hacker o herramienta debe ser capaz de eludir la seguridad. Usted debe alojar sus vídeos en proveedores protegidos por DRM como VdoCipher que utilizan cifrado DRM de grado Hollywood.

Opciones de inserción sencillas

Un sitio web de alojamiento de vídeos debe tener una opción fácil para generar código de inserción. Algunos proporcionan API para automatizar el proceso de incrustación en su sitio web o en cualquier sitio de terceros. Un vídeo incrustado está alojado en otro sitio, pero los espectadores pueden verlo en su página web. Esto reduce sus costos de ancho de banda y almacenamiento.

Operatividad

Un sitio web de alojamiento de vídeos siempre disponible es un requisito obligatorio actualmente. Si el sitio web es lento o temporal, puede representar muchos problemas. El tiempo de actividad se refiere al tiempo durante el cual un sitio está disponible para sus usuarios. En teoría, el tiempo de actividad debe ser del 100 %, pero en el escenario real, debido a diversos factores, es difícil lograr una disponibilidad tan alta. Los proveedores seguros como VdoCipher brindan una disponibilidad de actividad del 99,99 %.

Escalable

Los requisitos de alojamiento varían con el tiempo y el crecimiento. En algún momento, es posible cargar más vídeos y necesitar un mayor uso del ancho de banda. El sitio web de alojamiento debe proporcionar flexibilidad para actualizar el servicio sin problemas y ser capaz de manejar un gran volumen de cargas y transmisión de una manera interrumpida y optimizada.

Calidad de vídeo adaptable

La transmisión adaptativa es una de las características más requeridas en un sitio web de alojamiento de vídeos. Su reproductor debe poder ofrecer múltiples opciones de calidad según la conectividad a Internet. Los espectadores con poca conectividad aún podrían ver los vídeos con una latencia mínima y el dispositivo seleccionaría automáticamente la velocidad de bits de transmisión óptima.

Sitio web de alojamiento de vídeos seguro con DRM – VdoCipher

La gestión de derechos digitales (DRM) es una tecnología para acceder y controlar el uso, la modificación y la distribución de obras protegidas por derechos de autor, como contenido multimedia y software. Además, las técnicas de DRM emplean acuerdos de licencia y cifrado para proteger el contenido digital de la piratería y el uso no autorizado. De hecho, existe una serie de tecnologías DRM para dar a los creadores el control sobre cómo se usa y comparte su contenido.

En lo que respecta a los vídeos, la tecnología DRM los protege de descargas y accesos ilegales, minimizando la piratería y la pérdida de ingresos mediante el cifrado. El vídeo se convierte a un formato cifrado y se descifra al final del reproductor mediante una clave privada. Después de eso, no se puede obtener el vídeo sin procesar para descargarlo y piratearlo.

Las tecnologías de cifrado de vídeo estándar como AES128 y RTMPe tienen un mecanismo de intercambio de claves parcial, lo que las hace vulnerables a la piratería con software o complementos. Por otro lado, el cifrado DRM no solo encripta el vídeo, sino que implica el intercambio de claves de cifrado privado.

VdoCipher utiliza Google Widevine DRM y Apple FairPlay DRM para garantizar el más alto nivel de seguridad contra la piratería y cubrir todos los dispositivos y navegadores clave (computadora portátil/de escritorio, Android, iOS).

Sirviendo a más de 2.500 clientes en más de 120 países, VdoCipher ofrece un alojamiento seguro con cifrado DRM de grado Hollywood para proteger sus vídeos premium y aumentar la generación de ingresos. El contenido transmitido a través de VdoCipher no se puede descargar ilegalmente utilizando ningún complemento o truco de Internet. Además del alojamiento seguro, cuenta con marcas de agua dinámicas, descargas seguras sin conexión en apps, complementos para WordPress y Moodle, API y análisis de vídeo, reproductor HTML5 inteligente y SafetyNet.

Características

Cifrado DRM de Google y Apple FairPlay

Protege los vídeos del acceso y las descargas no autorizados con la más alta seguridad de cifrado a través de DRM Widevine y FairPlay

Marcas de agua dinámicas

Para desalentar la captura de pantalla y fortalecer la marca, los detalles como la identificación de usuario, el correo electrónico y otros detalles de identificación se pueden obtener a través de una marca de agua dinámica sobre el vídeo. También se puede personalizar el color, transparencia y tamaño.

Descargas seguras sin conexión en apps

El SDK nativo de iOS de VdoCipher permite la descarga de vídeo en el dispositivo de forma segura. Además, usted tiene la opción de limitar la duración del tiempo durante el cual un vídeo sin conexión estará disponible para descargar. Puede descargarlo dentro de su app con validez de tiempo para el video descargado.

Bloqueo de captura de pantalla en las apps nativas de Android e iOS

Nuestra integración nativa de SDK bloquea y desaconseja la captura de pantalla a nivel de hardware. Esta es una característica muy útil para proteger sus vídeos contra la piratería.

Google SafetyNet para la seguridad basada en aplicaciones

Safetynet de Google proporciona seguridad de vídeo adicional contra la manipulación de apps y los ataques de reproducción. El SDK de Android de VdoCipher integra Safetynet fácilmente para bloquear la reproducción en apps duplicadas.

Complementos

El complemento de vídeo de WordPress de VdoCipher es compatible sin problemas con todos los complementos populares de membresía de WP, incluidos Members, Restrict Content Pro, MemberPress y WP eMember. El complemento también es compatible con LMS como WP CourseWare, LifterLMS, Sensei y LearnDash.

Restricciones geográficas

Es posible incluir en la lista negra o lista blanca países específicos con restricciones geográficas. Usted puede bloquear una variedad de direcciones IP, como una empresa o una universidad. Agregue restricciones basadas en el tiempo y establezca la caducidad de las URL.  Sin embargo, puede haber muchas razones para optar por el bloqueo geográfico, incluidas las leyes de privacidad, los derechos de autor, el mercado objetivo, la audiencia o el uso de contenido interno.

Reproductor de vídeo HTML5 inteligente

Nuestro reproductor de vídeo HTML5 inteligente viene con controles dinámicos y soporte de subtítulos en varios idiomas. Puede cambiar la velocidad de reproducción, elegir opciones de tema y API de Javascript para agregar botones de superposición y rastrear las interacciones del espectador con el vídeo.

Calidad de vídeo adaptable

A veces, la calidad del vídeo se deteriora o deja de reproducirse debido a la baja conectividad a Internet. Nosotros ofrecemos transmisión de múltiples velocidades de bits, lo que significa que la calidad del vídeo cambia automáticamente según la conectividad a Internet del espectador.

CDN y servidor AWS

VdoCipher utiliza una infraestructura de nube AWS global (almacenamiento en AWS S3, transcodificación a través de algoritmos de VdoCipher en EC2, tTransmisión de contenido a través de CDN de CloudFront). La entrega de contenido a través de servidores CDN distribuidos geográficamente garantiza una latencia mínima e ininterrumpida.

El mejor sitio web de alojamiento de vídeos

Esto depende de varios factores. Especialmente si está buscando alojar vídeos para su público de forma gratuita y no le preocupa que nadie los descargue o comparta. Aún así, muchos creadores utilizan plataformas como YouTube para subir vídeos con fines de entretenimiento y monetización sin preocupaciones de confidencialidad. Los vídeos no son seguros y se pueden descargar y grabar fácilmente.

Por ejemplo, las plataformas de medios y eLearning que usan sus vídeos como fuente de ingresos optan por sitios web de alojamiento con protección de vídeos. Cada año, la economía pierde miles de millones de dólares debido a la piratería, y los vídeos contribuyen principalmente en estas estadísticas. Crear videos es una ardua tarea, especialmente con contenido premium, en la que usted no puede arriesgarse a que se filtren o tengan acceso público. Además, los sitios de alojamiento de pago como VdoCipher brindan un panel central para administrar todos sus vídeos, monitorear el rendimiento, las funciones personalizadas y, lo que es más importante, tiene un lenguaje sencillo para cualquier usuario.

Preguntas frecuentes

¿El alojamiento de ancho de banda ilimitado es real?

Es posible que haya visto docenas de proveedores que afirman ofrecer alojamiento de vídeos de ancho de banda ilimitado. Sin embargo, no existe tal afirmación, siempre hay limitaciones. En términos generales, ilimitado significa sin límites, pero en términos de alojamiento, significa ilimitado siempre que se alcance un cierto umbral.

¿Puedo incrustar vídeos en WordPress?

Sí. Los videos se pueden incrustar en cualquier sitio web de WordPress utilizando el complemento de WordPress de VdoCipher.  Además, el complemento es fácil de usar y la integración es bastante simple.

¿Cuáles son los formatos de archivo más utilizados para la transmisión de vídeos?

MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, AVCHD, FLV y SWF son los formatos más populares.

Subodh

Product Marketing Specialist, VdoCipher.

www.vdocipher.com

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Online videos are increasingly integrating into our daily lives and have also overlapped with other modes of entertainment and learning. Finally, such a growing demand for videos requires a dedicated place to upload, store and serve the videos with all additional features, known as a Video Hosting Website.

What is Hosting for Video Websites?

Hosting for Video Websites enables you to upload, store as well as distribute video content for playback to relevant audiences on the internet using them as a medium. Undoubtedly, with the popularity of video content over the years, the demand for video hosting websites has drastically increased. This is so because video files require large storage space and bandwidth utilization, unlike text or image content.

YouTube, a free video hosting platform, is one such example. The videos on these websites are uploaded via their website, desktop or mobile application, or API.  Videos are hosted on their servers with the functionality of embed codes to add videos on their own blog page or any third-party website.

The videos can be either hosted by self or using video hosting websites. In self-hosting, videos are hosted on your website’s server just like other media files, unlike a video-hosting website. Although you have complete control over the content, many technical implementations must be done from your end. Similarly, Hosting videos can be expensive owing to the bandwidth and storage costs. Also, there are security risks associated with self-hosting, as the videos are not properly encrypted.

Paid vs Free Video Hosting for Video Websites

A free video hosting website has bandwidth, features, and access limitations. These websites mostly restrict the number of video uploads and have limited bandwidth availability. Platforms like YouTube offer free hosting, but there are limitations too.

As these websites do not charge for video hosting, advertising is their major earning source. The algorithms are so designed as to have more clicks on videos so that users do not leave the website.  Moreover, free hosting is a good choice if you do not have a bunch of videos to upload or are looking to share some promotional videos.

The videos hosted on free video hosting websites are not secure and easily downloaded and distributed. In conclusion, these free video hosting websites benefit those looking to host videos for free and for anyone to download or share.

Compared to free hosting, paid or professional video hosting websites, on the other hand, are more reliable and come with many features and benefits. They have different plans based on your storage and bandwidth usage and are always scalable as per business requirements. Generally, with free video hosting, you cannot expect advanced security features.

If your videos are confidential or you are looking for monetization options, it may be in your best interest to look for a business video hosting website or platform like Vdocipher.  Most importantly, if you run a business where your videos are sensitive and need support, security, analytics, and branding, including eLearning or media platforms, a free service is not at all adequate. For this, VdoCipher is a perfect choice for businesses, enterprises, individual creators, and educators. Moreover, VdoCipher is more than a secure video hosting website; from DRM encryption to secure offline downloads in apps, they have got them all.

Must-Have Features of a Hosting for Video Websites

Video API

Video APIs provide ease and automate the integration and other video functionalities without hassle. According to Forbes, more than 71% of developers plan to use more APIs in the coming year. Server and Player APIs can automate video upload, inject custom HTML in the video player or customize player design.

CDN Delivery

CDN is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers to make multimedia content delivery faster and streamlined. A copy is created and stored in the proxy servers whenever a user makes a playback request. Next time whenever the same request is made, the proxy server nearest to the user serves the content. Further, this minimizes latency and buffering, resulting in uninterrupted video playback.

Video Analytics

Generally, all video hosting websites give basic video analytics to monitor your content. A good hosting website’s video analytics parameters including no. of visitors, conversion rates, traffic source, bounce rate, average view time, and other engagement metrics. This information helps you better understand the video performance and tailor the content based on demographics.

Multi-level User Access

The feature of adding multiple users to your dashboard is of importance for organizations looking for access level controls for the team. For instance, some may have full access, while some have restricted access, such as just viewing. The different permission levels can be viewed, edited, or uploaded.

Support

There are times when you need support as well as guidance from your video hosting website. They must have robust customer support in place to address the problems faced by the user at any time.  Additionally, the various contact modes can be email, call or complaint form. Usually, the support levels vary depending on your opted plan.

Security

Regarding hosting videos, especially premium videos, security is the main concern to address. Not only are your videos protected from unauthorized access and illegal downloads, but they must also be well-encrypted. In summary, no hacker or tools must be able to bypass the security. You should host your videos on DRM Protected video hosting providers like VdoCipher that use Hollywood Grade DRM Encryption to secure videos.

Easy Embed Options

A video hosting website must have an easy option to generate embed code. Some provide APIs to automate the embedding process on your website or any 3rd party site. An embedded video is hosted on another site but viewers can watch it on your webpage. Moreover, they can watch the video without leaving your webpage. Finally it reduces your bandwidth and storage costs.

Uptime

An always-available video hosting website is a mandatory requirement these days. If the website is slow or unavailable for some duration, there may be many problems. Uptime refers to the time for which a website is available to its users. Theoretically, the uptime must be 100% but in the real scenario due to various factors, such a high availability is difficult to achieve. Secure video hosting providers like VdoCipher give 99.99% uptime availability.

Scalable

Your video hosting requirements vary with time and growth. At some time, you may upload more videos and require higher bandwidth utilization. The hosting website must provide flexibility in upgrading the service with no hassle. The video hosting website must be capable of handling high volume of video uploads and streaming in an interrupted and streamlined way.

Adaptive Video Quality

Adaptive streaming is one of the most required features in a video hosting website. Their player must be able to offer multiple video quality options on the player so as to switch video quality as per internet connectivity. Viewers having poor internet connectivity can still watch the videos with minimum latency with the device automatically selecting the optimum streaming bitrate.

DRM Secure Video Hosting Website – VdoCipher

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology to access and control the use, modification, and distribution of copyrighted work, such as multimedia content and software. Additionally, Video DRM techniques employ licensing agreements and encryption to secure digital content from piracy and unauthorized usage. Moreover, there are a number of DRM technologies to give creators various amounts of control over how their content is used and shared.

In regards to videos, DRM technology secures the videos from illegal downloads and access, minimizing video piracy and revenue loss using DRM encryption. The video is converted into an encrypted format and decrypted at the player’s end using a private decryption key. After that, the online viewer does not get the raw video for downloading and hacking.

Standard video encryption technologies like AES128 and RTMPe have a partial key exchange mechanism, making them vulnerable to hackers and piracy with software or plugins. On the other hand, DRM encryption not online encrypts the video but involves private video encryption key exchange.

VdoCipher uses Google Widevine DRM and Apple FairPlay DRM to ensure the highest level of security against piracy and cover all key devices and browsers (laptop/desktop, android, IOS).

Serving over 2500 customers in more than 120 countries, VdoCipher offers secure video hosting with Hollywood Grade DRM Encryption to secure your premium videos and boost revenue generation. Video streamed via VdoCipher cannot be illegally downloaded using any internet plugin or hack. Apart from secure hosting, the other features are dynamic watermarking, secure offline downloads in apps, plugins for WordPress and Moodle, video API and analytics, smart HTML5 video player and SafetyNet for added security.

Features

Google and Apple FairPlay DRM Encryption

Protects videos from unauthorized access and downloads with the highest encryption security via Widevine and FairPlay DRM

Dynamic Watermarking

To discourage screen capture and establish branding, details like user ID, email as well as other identification details can be dynamically watermarked over the video. It can be customized for color, transparency and size.

Secure Offline Downloads in Apps

VdoCipher iOS native SDK enables video download on the device in a secure manner. There is even an option to limit the time duration for which an offline video will be available for download. You can also download inside your Android app with time validity for the downloaded video.

Screen Capture block in Android and iOS Native app

Our native SDK integration blocks screen capture at the hardware level and discourages screen capture. This is a very useful feature for securing your videos against piracy.

Google SafetyNet for App-Based Security

Google’s Safetynet provides additional video security against application tampering and replay attacks. VdoCipher’s Android SDK easily integrates SafetyNet to block playback on duplicate apps.

Plugins

VdoCipher WordPress video plugin seamlessly supports all popular WP membership plugins, including Members, Restrict Content Pro, MemberPress, and WP eMember. The video plugin also supports LMS such as WP CourseWare, LifterLMS, Sensei, and LearnDash.

Geo-Restrictions

Blacklisting or whitelisting specific countries is possible with geo-blocking. You can block a range of IPs, such as a company or college. Add time-based restrictions and set the expiry of URLs.  However, there might be many reasons to opt for geoblocking, including privacy laws, copyright, target market & audience, or internal content usage.

Smart HTML5 Video Player

Our smart HTML5 video player comes with dynamic controls with multi-lingual subtitle support. There are dynamic controls to change playback speed, choose theme options and Javascript API to add overlay buttons and track viewer interactions with video.

Adaptive Video Quality

Sometimes, the video quality deteriorates or stops playing due to low internet connectivity. We offer multiple bitrate streaming, which means the video quality auto switches as per the viewer’s internet connectivity.

AWS CDN and Server

VdoCipher uses Global AWS Cloud Infrastructure (Storage on AWS S3, Transcoding via VdoCipher algorithms on EC2, Streaming of content via Cloudfront CDN). Content delivery via geographically distributed CDN servers ensures minimized latency and uninterrupted delivery of videos.

Best Video Hosting Website to Choose

It depends. Especially if you are looking to host videos for the public for free and have no concern in video download or sharing by anyone, a free hosting website can be a choice. Still many creators use platforms like YouTube to upload videos for entertainment and monetization purposes without confidentiality concerns. The videos are not secure and easily downloaded and screen captured.

For example, businesses such as Media and eLearning platforms having videos as their source of revenue opt for professional video hosting websites with secure video protection. Each year, the economy loses billions of dollars due to piracy, with videos contributing majorly in the statistics. Creating videos is a task, and especially with premium videos, you cannot risk videos leaking or public access. In addition, paid video hosting websites like VdoCipher to give a single dashboard to manage all your videos, monitor performance, customized features, and, most importantly, very few technical implementations.

FAQs

Is Unlimited bandwidth video hosting real?

You may have seen dozens of video hosting providers claiming to offer unlimited bandwidth video hosting. However, there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth, and there are always limitations. In general terms, unlimited means without limits but in terms of hosting, it means unlimited as long as a certain threshold is reached.

Can I embed videos on WordPress?

Yes. Videos can be embedded on any WordPress website using the VdoCipher WordPress plugin.  Also the plugin is easy to use, and integration is quite simple.

What are the commonly used file formats for video streaming?

MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, AVCHD, FLV, and SWF are the popular video file formats.

Jyoti

Jyoti began her career as a software engineer in HCL with UNHCR as a client. She started evolving her technical and documentation writing skills to become a full-time Content Marketer at VdoCipher.

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For most of us, gaining knowledge is about collecting little chunks, snippets in day-to-day life. This knowledge is in the form of watching videos, accessing YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Everything comes to our mind quickly and in small chunks. People now learn in a way that is most natural and comfortable to them. For many people, learning from texts can be pretty challenging. Video and audio dimensions to eLearning content development make the learning more easy and engaging. This is the demand now, so let’s start with different terminologies & checklists to help you set up your own platform.

1. Choosing your Backend, Frontend & other Server-side setups

Even as a beginner you would have known that Web Development is a combination of two dependencies namely, Frontend Development and Backend Development. Both facets have their respective set of mechanisms, tools and technologies.

1.1- No Code or Little Code Methods

Also, there is not a necessity that you need to go through the coding part. You can even do all the course and website creation by choosing a content management system. Different CMS or content management systems are available, having a different set of approaches and scopes.

For example, you can use an application-based LMS like Moodle or CMS like WordPress and Joomla where you require little to no coding. We can also achieve customizations via themes and available plugins. You can even use ready-to-launch teaching sites like Teachable, Thinkific, and Kajabi which we have also discussed here.

On the contrary, if you are looking for specific customizations you can develop your own backend and frontend with a language of your choice. Frameworks like Django gives you access to unlimited customization and even the scope of integrating technologies like machine learning.

Note: As per data of the top 10,000 websites, nearly 10% are built using WordPress CMS and 75% of websites use their custom CMS.

1.2- Backend Development of your eLearning video platform

Backend is your website’s server-side and is the portion that users don’t see. It stores and organizes data and ensures everything on the client-side or front end works fine. The backend connects with the front end and sends/receives information for displaying on the web page. Users access the back-end indirectly through a front end application. The backend includes writing APIs, scientific programming, creating libraries and much more. The prevalent languages which we can use to build backend are PHP, Python, Ruby, Golang (Go), Java, C++, Node.js and Javascript. The common backend frameworks are Django, Spring, Laravel and more. There are a lot of JavaScript development companies, the most popular ones you can find here.

1.3- eLearning video platform Front End Development

The front end or Client-side is the section of your website for eLearning where the user directly interacts with the browser. It includes everything users experience directly such as images, tables, graphs, buttons, navigation menu to text colours. All these features about Frontend Development of a website for eLearning come mainly through 3 key components – HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

In today’s world, the main objectives of front end development are responsiveness and performance. The website for eLearning should appear correctly on all screen sizes and resolutions. Also, it must use all performance improving compatibilities like lazy loading and page speed.

Some popular frameworks and libraries like bootstrap, AngularJS, React JS, jQuery, Flutter, SASS, Semantic-UI support front end development.

1.4- Other Server-side setup while building an eLearning video platform

To manage the users and other course or content information, a website for eLearning needs a database. The database stores the content of a website in a structured format to retrieve, organize, edit and save data. This setup runs on a remote computer known as Server. The most widely used databases are MySQL and PostgreSQL. Other databases like Oracle and Sybase are not preferred unless you have a very big infrastructure and also they are costly.

Other server-side setup includes setting up a server software like Apache or Nginx (preferred). Setting up CDN distribution and even a continuous deployment pipeline.

1.5- Important points to consider when setting up your own eLearning website

• LMS or CMS like Moodle, WordPress and Joomla are built as an application and are not object-oriented.
• Absolute beginners can start with options like Teachable, Thinkific and Kajabi.
• LMS and CMS mostly provide you with a level of customization using basic HTML, CSS and Javascript.

2. Video Hosting & Security

eLearning videos require a considerable investment of time, effort and money. You cannot just limit it to the creation of videos. One must store videos online on a video hosting server that has very high uptime, is secure, encrypted and budget-friendly. It must also enable adaptive bitrate streaming and even stores your content in various locations. This is helpful when trying to reduce time to first byte and latency.

The biggest problem with putting your original or premium eLearning content on the web comes with potential video piracy. Also, we know that websites like YouTube and Torrent have an abundance of pirated videos from premium resources. There are video downloader tools that can easily download videos from a video hosting platform. In general, video content is pirated in multiple ways like password theft, password sharing, unauthorized download, copyright violation, screen recording, and much more.

2.1- Video Protection Methods

The best ways to secure your eLearning video content is through secure login, membership, protecting videos from plugins and downloaders, Domain (URL) whitelisting, Real-Time Messaging Protocol Encrypted (RTMPE), HLS Encryption, IP/GEO Restriction, Video DRM, Dynamic watermarking and Screen capture block.

We can easily address all of these security concerns by choosing secure video hosting providers like Vdocipher. Such providers not only address your security and piracy concerns but also provide you with flawless uptime, adaptive bitrate streaming and even distribute your encrypted content globally via CDN.

3. eLearning Content Development & choosing type of platform

Though we discuss creating your own eLearning video platform, we hope you are also informed about the MOOCs. After the analysis of your target customers, one needs to focus on choosing the type of eLearning video platform, be it LMS/CMS or MOOC.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are open to all which means people from across the globe can access or create courses on your eLearning video platform, making it an eLearning marketplace. In the majority of the cases, these courses are free and available all over the internet. Udemy is one such example. They even provide you with free branding and paid marketing opportunities.

Learning Management System or LMS comes with restricted access, meaning it is available only within an organization. LMS is designed for a specific customer and does not necessarily have a robust architecture like a MOOC eLearning video platform. The basic LMS architecture enables admins to upload learning content, assist and deliver lessons, enable notifications and share content with authorized users. LMS can be free, commercial, cloud-based, pre-written CMS, individual or enterprise.

3.1- Content Development for eLearning Website

Once done with choosing the right type, we should move forward with eLearning content development. For an eLearning video platform content development is crafting relevant course content based on your niche, audience knowledge, business goals, idea and mode of content delivery. Each video content and its accompanying text comes with its own piece of knowledge and information. These contents cumulatively form a course. A course may have video, audio, PDF and more.

The learning path is another term that is gaining popularity. It comprises of digital content formats or virtual classrooms aimed at delivering flexible structured learning. One example is self-paced digital content comprising documents, videos, webinars, and online assessments. This help users meet their learning goals and master the subject. Slide-based courses, training videos, quizzes, webinars, embedded or standalone videos, study material, ebooks, blogs, augmented reality (AR), case studies, interviews are some of the content development formats eLearning video platforms use.

4. eLearning Website or App or Both

Often learning apps provide a better user experience compared to a mobile website. Presentations, courses, videos become more responsive, menus and filters are smooth enough, better UI, there are other customizable options and more. But this does not mean all eLearning video platforms are doing that great with a mobile app. Apps are platform-dependent and nowadays, we need to access our data from any device and any browser, which is not the case with most mobile apps.

Most online learning platforms are designed for the web as it is platform-agnostic, open and ubiquitous. With the website for eLearning, you don’t have to install anything. Visitors will appreciate your app if nothing stands in their way to get the knowledge. The user flow must be smooth and attractive. Also, with every update to the chosen CMS and generic backend/frontend technology, web applications are getting more and more like apps.

Even platforms like Twitter are using PWA or progressive web apps and are experiencing more user influx and engagement. Thus, the choice of study apps or website or both depends on your expectations, requirements and developmental needs. A self-starter, after learning about the video market through YouTube, Moocs and similar giants might want to progress with the website first approach. Make the website responsive, implement basic SEO and video SEO, move forward with application development for enhanced experience to existing users and compliment the high influx with PWA.

5. Search Logic, Categorization & Filters

The easier users find video content and courses on the portal, the faster their user journey will be. This is where search, categorization and filtering can provide a huge boost to an online eLearning video platform.

5.1- Categorization

Start with categorization as it will tell you what might be searched and filtered. Also, categorization requires you to make required headers like ‘tags’ in your database, which will require a migration. Planning for it and implementing it in the initial model setup stage will even help in data collection as well as better filter and search setup.

Website categorization defines the type of content on a specific web page. The use cases of website categorization are content filtering, brand safety, network security and firewall, ad-tech, parental control and more. The SEO of your pages becomes imbalanced without categories and pages start competing for the same search keywords. Category pages are an important area of opportunity for boosting organic traffic.

5.2- Filters

After categorization logic, start with product filtering, use category-specific filters as users prefer them over generic parameters. With respect to a particular course, the placement of an array of tags in your database helps filter more dynamically. Such filter mechanism placement in the initial stage also helps you implement deep learning and machine learning opportunities as more data comes in. Using multiple filters allows users to shortlist down to the smallest details. For the smooth experience of a mobile website, the developer needs to customize the CSS code to fit standard desktop filter displays into mobile-ready formats. Filter placement requires A/B testing to find the perfect spot on the web page.

5.3- Search Logic

Now when you have captured most user-specific choices by categorization and filters, there comes search. Search can be of many types like single word search, linear search, and full-text search, accompanied by different search logic based on various search algorithms with variable output. Different math equations used to calculate the closest and best match for a search term are the main reason for having variable output

If you are using a pre-created platform-specific service or an app-based CMS like WordPress, you will most likely stick with the inbuilt search logic. If you are planning to go with frameworks like Django, you have plenty of options available as python libraries to enhance your search and their respective logic. For advanced usage, do maintain a database of your search terms as they will help you enhance your search in future.

6. Complementary and Supplementary Recommendations

With numerous resources on a portal, users need to decide which courses or content to opt for. Hence, the recommendation system applies in the eLearning video platform to help learners get personalized services by identifying their complementary and supplementary preferences. Basically, there are three recommendation techniques, content-based, collaborative filtering (CF)-based and knowledge-based.

Content-based recommendation profiles users with their past behaviour and recommends content similar to their profile. The CF-based recommendation assumes similar users preferring similar content and generates recommendations with users collaboration.

We can apply the knowledge-based recommendation scenarios where the content is not frequently visited and that is why it relies mostly on the pre-defined knowledge structures like ontology. Ontology is a systematic knowledge representation that contains entities, and their relationships in a particular domain. It is also encoded by language such as web ontology language (OWL). Also, user queries can be further modelled and trained as new concepts if previously unavailable in the pre-defined ontology through enrichment.

7. Integrating Payment Gateway

If a platform’s eLearning model is a subscription or paid courses, there should be a convenient method for students to pay and tutors to collect their earnings. And when dealing with money, the payment gateway transaction must be secure and give users a seamless checkout experience. The most popular payment mediums are Debit/credit cards, PayPal Master/Visa/Maestro/Amex, and UPI. Most payment gateways like Razorpay and Paytm allows all of these mediums after complete verification and even allows you to accept international payments. An LMS will usually have it integrated and we can do the custom integration easily using the payment gateway’s API.

8. Support & Live Chat Features

Online customer support helps in better communication, solving user problems, collecting customer feedback and suggestions to fine-tune the system and solve unexpected issues. Online customer service answers customer questions by digital tools like email, messaging apps, live chat and social media.

Live chat support is now the most dynamic and popular way of communicating with customers. It’s the best way to go beyond customer’s expectations and satisfaction to gain higher traffic and conversions. In an eLearning video platform, text chat helps in maintaining smooth communication between attendants and lecturers. For a platform based on pre-recorded videos, implementing a Q&A section is better.

9. Social Sharing

Social sharing has enormous potential for social media marketing to boost sales and increase the visibility of a business. It is a cost-effective tool for increased brand recognition and promotion and can be used to convert customers. From the perspective of content marketing, social media helps in building links organically. Google uses ranking signals for search results linking by determining how much time the content is shared, liked, tweets or posted to social media. The ideal placement of social media icons is on the top half of the webpage or ‘above the fold’.

10. Business Model

Before starting the development process of your eLearning video platform, you should take into consideration the different ways of monetizing your content. One of the popular monetization methods is that of Udemy which charges as per the specific course. Some courses on such platforms are free, while others are in paid form.

The subscription-based model is one more commonly used monetization way. It is based on monthly payments or a one-year subscription with lower monthly rates. Many eLearning providers even implement a Paid certification model wherein, courses are free but students need to pay to earn certification of the course. Some eLearning business models run on sponsorships and advertising.

11. Login/signup

The login page is the first place to deliver the best user experience to a visitor with a website. For the same, it requires authenticating the user before giving access to a platform’s secured pages. Designing a website login page requires working on tiny details. Be it making the page responsive and not a pain to use, else lose users. Developers need to work on the bounce rate of their login page and make the transition smooth, easy, and error-free.

The login form should be simple, short with a clean design. There should be a clear distinction between login and registration forms and have options of logging through external accounts. There should be clear ‘Forgot password’ and ‘Remember me’ options.

Note: Do include ‘Sign In with Google’ & ‘Sign In with Facebook’ as a medium in sign up and sign in as data shows that they are the most used modes. Also, if making your own CMS then do check for logic on merging mail ids signed up using ‘Register’ input forms and using ‘Google’ or ‘Facebook’.

How VdoCipher Helps In Building Your Own Elearning Video Platform

A major part of setting up your own video platform for education includes the video infrastructure. This includes video storage, encoding for different formats and video quality, embedding, encryption, and more. VdoCipher takes care of all this and more. All you have to do is upload your video to our platform, once the video has been transcoded, you can just copy the embed code and paste it on your website.

On top of the video hosting, you get access to DRM-based security, which ensures that your videos are not downloadable by anyone. This puts a stop to piracy online, ultimately giving you a substantial boost in revenue. As new users would have to sign up and pay for your premium courses in order to access them. Other security features which further safeguard your premium content are Dynamic watermarking to deter screen capture, Screen recoding protection on iOS and Android. You can even block geolocation, IP address and put time restrictions as well.

FAQs:

What are the benefits of using LMS?

Centralized content, up-to-date courses, easy tracking & reporting, cost-saving and more. Other benefits include employee satisfaction, retention, better ROI on training, economical remote learning.

How VdoCipher offers video protection and piracy control?

VdoCipher offers Hollywood grade DRM encryption which prevents illegal downloads using any hacks or plugins. The other video piracy features offered are dynamic watermarking, server to player package, screen capture restriction in mobile apps and customizable online video player.

How does a Progressive Web App (PWA) work?

A PWA is a web application installed on your system. It works offline in times of no internet connection. On Chrome, when you visit a website having PWA, you will be prompted to install the app. The advantages of PWA are mobile-like experience, offline availability, reduce loading time and give a better user experience.

Vishal Sharma

My expertise focuses on DRM encryption, CDN technologies, and streamlining marketing campaigns to drive engagement and growth. At VdoCipher, I’ve significantly enhanced digital experiences and contributed to in-depth technical discussions in the eLearning, Media, and Security sectors, showcasing a commitment to innovation and excellence in the digital landscape.

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