[consulting] Video Streaming Provider recommendations

[Jamie]

My suggestion is to host your own. You can use a 3rd party service like 
Zencoder to handle the encoding of the videos and then use a service 
like VoxCAST or SoftLayer to deliver the actual streams. I do that for 
one client, except we handle our own encoding through a custom server I 
wrote. We push out about 12tb a month of video through VoxCAST and store 
them all on a single dedicated server through Voxel.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 1/13/2011 9:33 AM, Aaron Winborn wrote:
> Two years ago there were a slew of these, but most of them vanished 
> over the past year. The big players remain, such as Brightcove and 
> Blip.TV. I'd be concerned about using a newer or smaller provider, 
> considering that the lesson learned from the past is your content is 
> as safe as the provider's longevity. (Even the majority of Brightcove 
> users lost their videos when they dropped support of their free service.)
>
> If you can license the content using cc-bysa, I would strongly suggest 
> using Archive, which seems to have longevity on its side, as well as 
> no branding on the videos.
>
> Aaron
>
> On 01/13/2011 08:32 AM, Christian Pearce wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are currently working on a project that is going to be heavy on 
>> embedded video content.  From what I understand most of our customers 
>> are not going to be happy with youtube or vimeo, since the player is 
>> branded with youtube or vimeo.  We certainly don't want to host the 
>> video ourselves.  A recommendation from Aaron Winborn that is well 
>> heeded.
>>
>> I just spoke with the guys at Fliqz, and apparently with some crafty 
>> programming they can supply a mechanism to allow multiple customers 
>> use the same account. So the costs are spread out over our customer 
>> base.  Versus telling each customer to go and get their own account.  
>> We want to make it more seamless for them.  My questions are as follows:
>>
>> 1. Does anyone have experience with fliqz that they would care to 
>> share good or bad.
>> 2. Are there other service providers that would offer the same 
>> functionality that I should be looking at.
>>
>> From what I can see fliqz isn't supported by the embedded video 
>> field, and would need to be written.  Something I would do and 
>> contribute back.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
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