A fundamental concept of modern security, encryption, serves as the cornerstone to safeguard data storage, digital communications, streaming, online transactions and much more. Derived from the roots of cryptography, encryption transforms a plain, readable information into an unreadable or unintelligible form using mathematical algorithms and secret keys. The same data is decrypted using a decryption key at the client/user’s end. The overall purpose of encryption is to make sensitive data confidential and secure, restricting unauthorized access, sharing or copying. To simplify the content protection process for video creators and distributors, CENC, or Common Encryption Scheme ensures interoperability between various DRM…
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CMAF Streaming Guide to Enhance Video Delivery and User Experience
The Common Media Application Format (CMAF) is a versatile media format designed to simplify streaming delivery, reduce storage costs, and enable adaptive streaming across various devices and platforms. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the benefits, applications, and best practices for implementing CMAF in your video streaming workflow. Table Of Contents: What is CMAF (Common Media Application Format)? CMAF Purpose and Benefits Need of CMAF for video streaming History and Developments of CMAF CMAF Encoding and Extensions Comparing Between Elements Of CMAF, HLS And DASH CMAF supported Video Formats and Encoding CMAF Streaming Tools and Implementation Combining DRM with…
React & React Native Video Playback: Simple Guide
Are you an entrepreneur or an enterprise IT leader with plans to launch client-facing web and mobile apps? You will likely use videos heavily since these are increasingly popular. You might be considering the use of React for your proposed web app. Furthermore, you probably want to use React Native for the proposed mobile apps. These frameworks enjoy plenty of popularity. How to incorporate the React video and React Native Video playback functionality? Read on, as we explain that. TABLE OF CONTENT The Importance Of Video Content What Are React and React Native? Setting The Context: Key Challenges In Implementing…
Custom variables as watermark on WordPress videos
Please visit Add Text to Videos with Watermark for a detailed introduction to adding a watermark to your videos. This particular blog explains what is going on under the hood of the WP plugin, and is useful only if you are adding your own custom-built variables as part of the watermark. Currently, name, IP, and email can be shown as part of the watermark. Table Of Contents: Default WordPress fields that can be added Custom filter addition to the WordPress hook JSON Code addition to the VdoCipher WordPress Plugin Example Steps to configure custom field “Phone number” as a watermark…
WordPress video hosting plugin : Add Secure Videos to your WP site
Detailed Wordpress Tutorial Video Explaining configuration, watermark, player customization. More details and text explanation after the video. WordPress is one of the fastest ways to build a working website. WordPress and its themes and plugins are used by developers to create truly awesome websites with minimal effort. Many users combine our secure video streaming service with their video membership sites built on WordPress. Here we explain how to add the VdoCipher video player to your site using the VdoCipher WordPress plugin. With the VdoCipher WordPress video hosting plugin, you can stream videos on your WordPress site with the best content…
Why Not to Host Your Own Videos? Challenges in Self-hosting videos
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…