Platform Update: Stronger Passwords & Smarter Tickets

Platform Update Stronger Password & Smarter Tickets

Some videos are just meant for a limited number of eyeballs. If you operate with sensitive content — whether it’s an executive board meeting or a high-value training video — this StreamingVideoProvider update is for you.

Stronger Video Passwords

In many cases, you will want to make sure that a video password can’t be shared with a third party and can’t be used if it leaks. That’s why we’ve added the Prevent Password Sharing feature in ⚙️ Settings > Access Control > Password Protection.

Select a Password Package and a Password Group within it. You’ll see Prevent Password Sharing on the right with three options:

Disabled: Password can be shared between users.
IP Fingerprint: Password can only be shared between devices on the same home or office computer network.
Device Fingerprint: Password can’t be shared. The password can only be used on one device at a time which has to be authorized first.

Watch the video below to learn more.

Smarter PPV Tickets

PPV tickets have had the Prevent Ticket Sharing sharing setting for a while which was set to Device Fingerprint by default. Some viewers found this difficult because they had to enter a code every time they switched to a new device. Now, we’ve added the IP Fingerprint option and made it default. This helps your viewers switch seamlessly between devices on the same network.

Go to ⚙️ Settings > Pay-Per-View > Paywalls & Tickets and select a paywall to test this new feature.

Other Improvements

Custom sender email now has to be tested before it can be used. This helps prevent human error when specifying custom SMTP settings.
Added Flexform support for CCBill
Added ability to set custom video passwords that are duplicates of sold PPV ticket passwords
Added fallback to default purchase confirmation email if the custom template was deleted
Improved PPV ticket appearance in playlist player

Bug Fixes

Affiliate commission was sometimes not updated in the admin dashboard
Chat embed code issues in Live Studio
PPV order confirmation email could not be resent when the related clip/live stream was deleted
False error message about playlist limitation was shown when playlist folder was selected
Video thumbnail was sometimes not generated when sharing video to social media
2FA email template was sometimes reset to default
2FA emails were not sent in some cases
The password field didn’t work properly in some cases in the popup player

Behind The Scenes: What’s Next?

Multistreaming — sending your live streams to multiple destinations such as social media platforms or sites you own directly from the StreamingVideoProvider admin.
Separate team sub-accounts that will consume shared resources from the main account.
Even more advanced media scheduling options and a countdown timer.