Cloudflare Stream Promises Easy, Cheap Video Hosting
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Cloudflare on Wednesday released the beta version of Cloudflare Stream, a new, inexpensive streaming video service.
Designed for app developers who want to build businesses hosting and streaming videos, Cloudflare Stream bundles encoding, global delivery and video player software into one package. These functionalities can be separated upon request.
Cloudflare wants to remove the need for users to grapple with the nuts and bolts of the technology, and to offer its service at a low price.
Users just shoot a video and upload it to an application programming interface standpoint to make the video available globally. It streams adaptively through an embeddable link that Cloudflare provides.
Cloudflare Stream pricing is based on the amount of time consumers actually spend viewing the video. That charge includes encoding, global delivery and the player.
Compression is enabled by default, and Cloudflare will support new, better codecs upon their release.
Too Much Protection
“Firms regularly use YouTube to distribute content because it’s really easy,” noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.
However, they might prefer Cloudflare Stream if they want better control over the quality and content, he told the E-Commerce Times.
“I know of one instance where Google killed the corporate stream for a live event because their filters identified the background music being used before the event started as protected content,” Enderle said. “With consumer services, because the protections have to be aggressive, you can have lots of unanticipated problems.”
Problems With Video Streaming
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