Encoding and encryption are two techniques that play a crucial role in the transmission, exchange, storage, and creation of digital content be it plain text or rich media. Encryption employs an algorithm that takes in either plain text or metadata of rich media and converts it into a pseudo-random string of hexadecimal called a hash. Hash is incomprehensible unless decrypted with a private key. Your passwords, credit card numbers, WhatsApp messages, and Facetime calls all are converted to a hash before being transmitted to the network. Encoding is required because the format you capture content in and the format…
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Flutter Android SDK for secure playback
The first (alpha) version of VdoCipher plugin is published and available for use in your flutter apps. Note: the plugin currently supports android only, iOS is not supported. To see installation instructions and the API Reference please visit the official publication on pub dev. https://pub.dev/packages/vdocipher_flutter To see more detailed code samples demonstrating fullscreen handling etc., please explore the sample flutter application project on GitHub. https://github.com/VdoCipher/sample_flutter_app API integration at backend along with above plugin at frontend - If you click on "Embed" button below any video in dashboard, then there is a "custom backend" section explaining API integration steps. Overall API…
Video Aspect Ratio Explained with Best YouTube, Instagram dimensions
In the year 1997, my friend's father bought their first television set with a wider screen. When I watched an old Charlie Chaplin movie on the new television, I noticed a black band on each side of the screened video. Now, we called the technician assuming it to be a technical glitch. When the technician saw that, he was the first who brought the term "Video Aspect Ratio" to my knowledge. That television set was intelligent enough to place the black bands on each side of the video so as to avoid any distortion of the video. Table Of Content:…
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: How It Works and Why It Matters
We've all been in situations where a video would end up taking forever to buffer. You'd rather leave the video platform than be patient enough to sit through a poor-quality stream. As a user, you always have the option to go to another platform. But as a video platform, this can be really bad news, as you end up losing your important users. Poor quality streams usually happen when your internet speed fluctuates and your video starts buffering. Buffering happens due to the fact that your internet can't download the video files fast enough to keep with the video playback.…
eLearning Video Production: How To Create A Course Effectively
Nowadays, it’s easy to create content from your smartphone. Just hit the record button and you’re all set to upload it to any video streaming platform. Sounds easy, doesn’t it! But have you ever considered what differentiates quality content from others? There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes for eLearning video production, ranging from pre-production to final editing of the video. (more…)