[Update 24/05/2018] This blog has been updated for API Version v3. A previous version of this blog used API v2. If you are using API v2 you can contact us at support@vdocipher.com. You can use VdoCipher API v3 to build a workflow around your video website as suggested in this blog. The complete API v3 reference, with sample codes for different backend languages, can be accessed from the API Sample Docs. We use Amazon AWS storage to store original user videos securely in AWS S3. With an intent to automate their online business, many of our customers wish to allow their users…
Affordable Video Streaming: Simplified Price Plans
VdoCipher introduces simpler and cheaper pricing plans for secure video streaming needs. VdoCipher is the one stop solution to e-learning & media companies looking to sell videos on their site in most secure, smooth and affordable way. The bandwidth pricing decreases with your usage. Recharge when your bandwidth credit gets consumed or after one year. Key thing here is that extra credits remaining will be rolled over to next year on recharging again with any plan. Lots of storage is included in each plan. Contact us for extra storage needs. Hours of streaming for a medium quality content are also included as…
Redirected: Add videos in rails app with VdoCipher ruby gem
VdoCipher videos can be added into any Ruby on Rails application without worrying about API code and setup. VdoCipher ruby gem does all the API related work for you. https://rubygems.org/gems/vdocipher Getting started Add this line to your Gemfile in your rails application gem 'vdocipher' And in your required controller add these lines require 'vdocipher' ... vdo_api = VdoCipher.new(clientSecretKey: "CLIENT_SECRET_KEY"); @embedcode = vdo_api.play_code("VIDEO_ID", "style=\"height:400px;width:640px;max-width:100%%;\""); Now in your view file, output the embed code where you like to embed videos. <%= @embedcode.html_safe %> You can add any attributes other than id in the play_code function for video container. The div id is assigned internally…
Multi bitrate streaming player – Stream video at any speed, any quality
VdoCipher has launched a custom multi bitrate streaming player for our customers. Now, you can give your viewers an option to stream at different qualities. Many people specially in developing countries do not have the internet speed to stream at highest quality. Giving them options to stream at medium and low quality is a wise decision. VdoCipher makes this feature special by allowing you to choose the qualities at which you want to stream the videos. You can contact VdoCipher to decide upon the number of different quality options you want to give your viewer and which qualities to play.…
Asynchronous video embed
We have released a new embed script to be used for VdoCipher videos which is faster than the earlier embed code. The earlier embed code used to wait for the player script to load before rendering the page after video player. This was a serious delay in page load time and affected the user experience. We have changed to asynchronous code which does not affect the page load time while making player loading even faster. Asynchronous scripts are much faster in situations where the rest of the web page does not depend on a single widget. This is the situation in most cases of video players. Hence, we have created…
Redirected: Adding videos from URL
You can easily add videos saved in your server to your vdocipher account. All you need is a publicly accessible link to the media file. This videos will be ready to use in your vdocipher dashboard. Import URL API call: POST https://api.vdocipher.com/v2/importURL?url=<url_encoded_link> PostData: clientSecretKey=CLIENT_SECRET_KEY Replace the CLIENT_SECRET_KEY with the API key provided on sign-up. Returns: { id: "---------------", status: "Queued" } The returned data can be either XML or JSON. This will tell you the id of the newly created video. Note that after adding, it can take up to five to fifteen minutes for the video to…