What video encoding and streaming services are there out there?

Question

I looking for something that I can either embed their uploader directly or send the video files to that will then encode the video and allow me to stream the video through a player on "my" website.

The services, I have found so far are:

• Bits on the Run
• Bright Cove
• Video Streaming Services

The service cannot be like YouTube ewhere the video would also be posted on their website.

Are there any other out there? Has any one had experience with any of the above ones?

It would be also cool if the service could also encode audio and stream them through Flash video.

Edit: From the number of responses, it looks like this isn't a very common task, although most websites you go to these days have video some where. A lot of that is YouTube, but there are quite a few sites that don't use YouTube either. What are these other sites use?

Answer 1

www.blip.tv allows you to embed videos on your page. You can also make them "private," meaning nobody can watch them on blip, and therefore must go to your site to view them. Blip also allows you to brand your own player, which is better than having YOUTUBE or some other name watermarked on the video.

Answer 2

Have a look at Panda.

Answer 3

Another possible service that looks much simplier to setup than Panda: http://heywatch.com

Answer 4

www.ooyala.com is worth considering as another option (I work on the Ooyala video player team, so I'm biased). We have good apis for uploading and managing your content, as well our own flash-based content management system, if you prefer to use our UI. We also can do really high quality adaptive bitrate playback using pure flash (no plugins), and give you strong control over who can see/embed a video.

Answer 5

If you want to go with webcam recording, then take a look at Nimbb. You can embed their player in your Web site and let your visitors record directly using a webcam. Recorded videos are hosted on their service, but you can also download them locally in FLV file format by calling a Web Service.

See documentation of the API here: http://nimbb.com/Help/Api.aspx

Answer 6

Have a look at Ankoder. It is a pay as you go encoding API platform hosted on Amazon EC2 servers. You can find full documentations and code samples there.

Answer 7

I worked on a project for a Lucozade campaign a few years ago "Lost your Edge", we used VideoEgg to achive the media hosting and transcoding.

Answer 8

We've also recently released a hosted version of Panda which makes setting things up much easier: http://pandastream.com/

Answer 9

This is a rather common procedure for digital asset management where it handles the encoding and distribution of the content. There are a number of managed services out there that charge for this service. I haven't worked with these companies directly (we did evaluate some before writing our own system), but they seem to meet what you need:

• Omnibus (I think ITX is their off-the-shelf component that does this but I recall that they provided a cloud-based system as well)
• thePlatform

Search terms to use include: asset management, digital asset management, and content management systems; however there is a lot of noise because you'll find everything from money investment to web content management systems.