A user agent is a computer program representing a person, for example, a browser in a Web context. Besides a browser, a user agent could be a bot scraping webpages, a download manager, or another app accessing the Web. Along with each request they make to the server, browsers include a self-identifying user-agent HTTP header called a user agent (UA) string. This string often identifies the browser, its version number, and its host operating system. A typical user agent string looks like this: “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0” How to allow to block requests based on User Agent in Live streaming? Please…
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You can enable IP Access security to allow or block requests based on IP addresses. Please follow the step to enable this security. Login to the 5centsCDN control panel. Go to Zones. Select HTTP Push/Pull or VoD Push/Pull. Click the Manage button of your zone. On the redirected page, you can scroll down and find IP Access under the Security section. Enable: You can enable this security Policy: Select anyone from the option Block: To block the request from the listed IP addresses. Allow: To give access only to the listed IP addresses. IP addresses: Specify the list of IP addresses here. You can specify both…
You can enable the IP access security feature to allow or block requests based on IP address or list of IP addresses. Please follow the steps to enable this security for your live streaming. Login to the 5centsCDN control panel. Go to Live Streams and select Pull/Push/Multi bitrate Push/Scheduled playlist/Delayed stream. Click the Manage button of your stream name. On the redirected page, you can scroll down and find IP access under the Security section. Enable: You can enable this security Policy: Select anyone from the option Block: To block the request from the listed IP addresses. Allow: To give…
Yes, you can hide the playback rate in the 5centsCDN video player by adding the query parameter hideplaybackrate=true at the end of the playback URL. A sample iframe code is attached below. <!– Add following section in the page’s <body> tag, where you need the player to be shown –> <div style=”width:100%;height:100%”> <iframe src=”base64_encoded_url?showcv=true&title=sample/test&hideplaybackrate=true” frameBorder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; encrypted-media” allowfullscreen style=”overflow:hidden;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;height:100%;width:100%;position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px”></iframe> </div>
Yes, you can hide the share button from the 5centsCDN player by adding the query parameter “hideshare=true”. A sample iframe code is attached below. You can check this codec and apply the parameter to your iframe code. <!– Add following section in the page’s <body> tag, where you need the player to be shown –> <div style=”width:100%;height:100%”> <iframe src=”base64_encoded_url?showcv=true&title=sample/test&hideshare=true” frameBorder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; encrypted-media” allowfullscreen style=”overflow:hidden;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;height:100%;width:100%;position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px”></iframe> </div>
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Yes, You can add VAST URL in the 5centsCDN video player to serve ads. You need to use the query parameter “adTagUrl “in the 5centsCDN Iframe code. Follow the steps, Step 1: Copy the 5centsCDN Iframe code from the console. Click here for more information Step 2: To add your VAST URL in the Iframe code, The URL should be urlencoded. You can encode the URL here. Step 3: You need to add the urlencoded VAST URL to the iframe code using the query parameter “adTagUrl”. Sample Iframe code is attached below. -> Iframe code available in 5centsCDN control panel.…
You need to edit your origin’s firewall settings to allow access to these addresses. IPV4 IPV6 23.32.0.0/11 23.192.0.0/11 2.16.0.0/13 104.64.0.0/10 184.24.0.0/13 23.0.0.0/12 95.100.0.0/15 92.122.0.0/15 184.50.0.0/15 88.221.0.0/16 23.64.0.0/14 72.246.0.0/15 96.16.0.0/15 96.6.0.0/15 69.192.0.0/16 23.72.0.0/13 173.222.0.0/15 118.214.0.0/16 184.84.0.0/14 2a02:26f0::/32 2600:1400::/24 2405:9600::/32 If you are using a 5centsCDN origin shield instead of Akamai, then you can whitelist the following IPs
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The single file transcoding is used to transcode your source file to a single quality. Suppose your source file is 1080p, you need to transcode it to 720p then you can use this transcoding method. Click here for more information The combined file transcoding is used to transcode your source to different qualities. This method is mainly used for ABR streaming. Suppose your source file is 1080p and you need to switch the quality to 1080p,720p, and 480p based on viewers’ internet speed then you can use this method. You can use SMIL based transcoded URL for the delivery. Click…