The MediaCore blog

We’ve just introduced secure progressive streaming links to all uploaded content, making your files safer than ever before.

What’s new with these links, you say? We’ve added some new tools that automatically generate unique URLs  for every visitor who comes to watch video on your site. This prevents users scraping your video and hot-linking directly to your file(s). The addition of this feature will reduce bandwidth costs while increasing the overall security of your video content. We take security seriously, and over the course of the next month we’re going to be adding even more controls to provide administrators with more tools to restrict who can access video or audio content.

If you have any questions about secure links or any other features please let us know.

If don’t already have a MediaCore account, sign up now to see it in action.

You can now upload your media once and let MediaCore do all the work for you with our new encoding system. Our new tabbed media uploader makes it easier then ever to quickly and effortlessly add media to your MediaCore site. We output the file in a variety of file formats and qualities using H.264 & WebM formats assuring your video works everywhere without any hassles.

We accept all popular video and audio codecs including AAC, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WAV, WEBM, WMA, WMV along with many, many more.

Along with encoding, we’ve fixed an assortments of bugs as well as increased over all speed and stability. Most of these bug fixes are thanks to our vigilant beta testers, so please keep providing us with great feedback through the links at the bottom of  the admin panel. We’ve got plenty in store, so you can expect lots of great things in the future!

If don’t already have a MediaCore Cloud Beta account, sign up now to see it in action.

We’ve just added a new feature to MediaCore that allows anyone to add their own custom domain so that your site will display on yourdomain.com instead of yourdomain.mediacore.tv.

To enable your own domain, navigate to the settings page, and then click general. At the bottom of the page you will be able to enter your domain where it says “URL.” Make sure that you point your domain’s A record to 174.129.28.62. If you are unsure how to do this please contact your domain registrar as this is something that they can do for you. Once your domain’s A record is point to our server (this can take up to 24 hours) you can hit check URL, and then save to make the changes permanent. If at any time you don’t want to use your custom domain anymore, you can simply remove it from the URL field and hit save again.

We’re happy to announce the public availability of MediaCore Mobile, available to all Cloud Platform users starting today. To access your MediaCore mobile video site goto: yoursitename.mediacore.tv and it will automatically display the site in the new mobile format.

MediaCore Mobile is the best way to showcase your video on mobile devices. Though it looks and feels like a native app, it’s accessible from the browser and available on all popular platforms, letting you experience mobile video in a completely new way.

Completely re-imagined from the ground up, you can effortlessly swipe, pinch and tap through video and podcasts all from the palm of your hand.

If don’t already have a MediaCore Cloud Beta account, sign up now to see it in action.