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The Ultimate Guide to HTML5 Video Players [2024]

Developers know that a lot goes into video streaming. The content must be produced, encoded, transcoded, and distributed globally. For this reason, delivering seamless over-the-top (OTT) video experiences often requires piecing together a handful of technology components. In this Ultimate Guide to HTML5 Video Players, we cover what to look for when choosing a player, when to go with a free or open-source option vs. a premium paid solution, and the best HTML5 video players to build on.

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DRM (Digital Rights Management): The Definitive Guide [2023]

Welcome to our complete guide to digital rights management in 2023. This page provides digital content creators with everything they need to understand how DRM works today to protect video content from unauthorized users. As the digital media landscape evolves, challenging copyright laws and threatening intellectual property like never before, DRM solutions play an increasingly…

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VidTech

Analysis of DRM Ciphers for Samsung Tizen

Digital rights management (DRM) is a complex world with many different rabbit holes to venture into. The good news is we’ve done a lot of heavy lifting by navigating in, out, and around many of these complex situations to provide you with an overview and the knowledge you need to make the best decisions for…

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VidTech

ICYMI – DRM Security and Protection Week Displays Best Industry-Wide Anti-Piracy Practices

As anyone involved in the video workflow development process might tell you, getting high-quality content to prospective consumers is not an easy build and requires many input factors. Some of the oft-overlooked and possibly more complex factors are the content protection measures that ensure the video isn’t being pirated. According to our 2020 Video Developer…

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VidTech

How to Trust Your Player: Protecting Content from Origination to Playback

How to Trust Your Player: Building an OTT Service for Today’s World Article 5 – From one end to the other: Protecting content from origination to playback, once and for all Joshua Shulman, Digital Marketing Specialist, Bitmovin Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust Technologies Any player in the…

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How to Trust Your Player #4: Beyond DRM – Video Watermarking

How to Trust Your Player: Beyond Digital Rights Management – Video Watermarking Weighs In Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS Andy Wilson, Senior Product Architect, Friend MTS Chris O’Brien, Engineering Manager, Friend MTS In the continually evolving OTT world, we’ve established that savvy pirates are implementing new and advanced methods to steal valuable content…

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How to Trust Your Player #3: How to Secure Your Content in Challenging Streaming Environments

Tips and Tricks: Building an OTT Service for Today’s World Piracy occurs at all levels of video streaming, from illegal downloads to screen captures. How can an OTT provider overcome these issues? Fortunately, there’s a good answer: with a mixed balance of back-end solutions including digital rights management (DRM), watermarking, and/or client-hardening. As a part…

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Developers

How to Trust Your Player #2: Securing Content Access with DRM Best Practices by Intertrust

This is the second article from the collaborative content series by Bitmovin, Intertrust, and FriendMTS. This post was originally written and hosted by Intertrust.  Authors: Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust Nicolas Bredy, Senior Solutions Architect, Intertrust Overview of Online Piracy and Digital Rights As discussed in the first article of our series on “How…

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Product Updates

Player Version V7 & V8 is Chromecast HLS Compatible with Enhanced DRM Support

Since the  release of player version v5.2, Bitmovin has improved support for HLS streams, including playback on Chromecast and enhanced DRM handling. This support carries across to the latest implementation –  Web SDK v8 Chromecast HLS Playback After introducing HLS streaming to our HTML5 based player, we took the next step and ported it to…

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Google Widevine (L3) Cracked – What to expect?

The New Year started with yet another reminder that security should not be taken for granted, even for the most established products and services. At Bitmovin, security is top of mind for us even in cases where we’re not directly involved or responsible for the vulnerabilities. We consider it our responsibility to do whatever we…

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