Content delivery platform & security company Cloudflare has launched a video streaming service designed specifically for Websites & apps. Called ‘Stream’ (what else), it’s designed to remove the barriers for those planning to introduce video in an app or as a service.
The announcement was made on the Cloudflare blog. Said the post:
…..the video streaming market is screwed up. While there’s a lot of money spent on video, there are only really about 1,000 customers that do any meaningful level of streaming.
This is in large part because it’s technically far too complicated. If you want to move beyond just uploading your videos to a consumer service like YouTube, then you have to use at least three different services. You need someone to encode your video into a streamable format, you need someone else to act as the content delivery network delivering the bytes, and you need someone else still to provide the player code that runs on the client device. Further, since video encoding standards keep evolving and vary across generations of devices, it becomes challenging to ensure a consistently high quality experience for all visitors.
Yes, the video streaming market today is really that messed up. And so we thought it was time to help fix it. Today, we’re introducing Cloudflare Stream. With it, we’re trying to fix both the technical and business issues that have plagued the video streaming market to date.
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