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:…
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Online Video Watermarking: Encoding & Overlay
Online Video Watermarking has been an essential part of controlling video piracy to a considerable extent. Video piracy is the act of acquiring or copying someone else's content. And then selling or distributing a copyrighted video without the consent of the copyright owner. Over the past few years, it has become a major concern for e-learning content producers, broadcasters and movie producers. However, with the availability of high-speed internet and a pool of Internet streaming sites, a pirated copy is readily accessible to a global audience for viewing online and downloading within just days of its release to theatres. Here…
Calculator for Revenue Loss from Video Piracy by VdoCipher
Video APIs to Automate your Video Workflow – API Version v3
This blog suggests a workflow for automating the video workflow for your website using VdoCipher API v3. Complete details and Sample Codes for the API can be found in the Server API Docs. Our APIs are designed to give you programmatic access to VdoCipher's service, so that you can scale your service by automating the video streaming workflow on your site. Our APIs make it possible for you to create programmed pipelines to automate your business operations. In this blog, you will find APIs covering most important video actions. While the video upload and video management operations can be performed…
Nodejs sample code to generate OTP for secure video streaming
https://gist.github.com/milangupta4/feb388a08ead1450f6b77d6db58f90dd
A Business & Entertainment History of Streaming Media
With video increasingly becoming the medium of communication over the internet, it is a sobering thought that many of the technologies now being used seamlessly were tried out, at enormous usage costs, in the early-to-mid 90s. Some of the first uses of internet streaming media in this period were: The first major live sports webcast on the internet on September 5, 1995 - a Major League Baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees. A Rolling Stone Live Concert was broadcast live from Cotton Bowl in Dallas on 18 November 1994. Knowing the broadcast channel to be live…