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:…
Viewers and unable to see the video in the screen-sharing session.
Cause- The videos embedded through our services are DRM encrypted. This ensures that no hack/downloader can download or share the video. The Chrome browsers on certain computers can prevent screen recording/sharing owing to same DRM security. Many don't prevent it, but many can prevent it. What to do – You can try playing the video in the Firefox browser on the computer and then try to share your screen, it might work as Firefox usually doesn't prevent screen sharing. In case both chrome and firefox sharing are not working on the user's computer, then it means it can not work…
Error “To play this video, update from settings> General> Software update”.
Error message- Receiving error “To play this video, update from settings > General > Software update”. Causes- 1- This issue can be observed if you are using a non-recommended web browser. 2- Operating system for the device is not updated. Fix- 1- Ensure that you are using an updated recommended web browser. 2- Ensure the Operating system for the device is updated.
The Zenplayer gives an error 403 error getting video parameters
Error message- The Zenplayer gives an error 403 error getting video parameters This error occurs only in Android Zenplayer Cause- The above issue can happen if you are using some cache plugin on the pages where the video is embedded and that cache prevents our dynamic URLs from loading. The above issue can occur if you are using some cache plugin on the pages where the video is embedded and that cache prevents our dynamic URLs from loading. Fix- Please remove any cache plugins from the video page and then try. (E.g Wp super cache plugin can cause this) …
Email id not showing as watermark in non-wordpress LMS like teachable, kajabi, thinkific etc.
Iframe embed on 3rd party platforms like teachable can not have the email id as a watermark as email details of a user are stored at teachable backend and unless teachable integrates our APIs by partnering with us, it is not possible to do so. So, it is not possible currently. However, timestamp, fixed text, IP address are possible as the watermark via iframe integration on such platforms. Below is a link to the detailed tutorial explaining the video embedding process for these platforms. Tutorial for iframe embed- https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/embedding-on-other-site-teachable/ The first half of the above tutorial has a video tutorial,…
YouTube vs Wistia vs Vimeo: Pricing, Player, Copyright & APIs Compared
Video has been one of the revolutionary trends for marketing strategy across the globe. The preference for video content is not just limited to entertainment purposes, and they extend to brands. For brands and video marketing experts, major differentiable features of their video hosting requirements include pricing, player customization, analytics, copyright/security and others. To cater the same, we have analyzed Vimeo, Wistia & YouTube to find out the best one for your Online Video Business requirements and to even draw a better comparison. Table Of Content: Video Player customization options Dashboard and Video Analytics YouTube vs Wistia vs Vimeo Copyright…