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Can you say which PaaS they are using? It's hard to believe any modern PaaS doesn't have video delivery included as an option of some sort. FYI we use Vimeo to

Can you say which PaaS they are using? It's hard to believe any modern PaaS doesn't have video delivery included as an option of some sort. FYI we use Vimeo to serve about a million views a month, for $20/mo. It doesn't get much cheaper than that.

iainctduncan 5y ago
I can't recall, I just got the financials, and what they figured they had to charge per seat seemed very high to me. But it wasn't a video PaaS, it was a whole learning management system PaaS, so the video (the part they really need) is coming with an overall expensive package. LMS's are a good racket! lol. I implemented one years ago for a company doing corporate training (had to replace their flash system, ouch!) and it just wasn't that much work to build something in house that competed with the overpriced LMS PaaS's out there for their particular needs. My perception is people are paying a ton for all the feature bloat, and often using like 20% of it.
- technobabbler 5y ago
  Hah! As soon as you posted this, my first thought was, "I bet they're getting overcharged by some shitty LMS". A lot of those companies resell video hosting for an insane markup. Glad you're trying to find them a better deal. If you need to be able to charge PPV or per month or whatever, Vimeo also offers a billable solution: https://vimeo.com/ott/pricing https://vimeo.com/ott/pricing (OTT is apparently "over-the-top", as in PPV that bypasses cable/satellite/etc... according to wikipedia. Must be a cable-era term.) There are a bunch of other providers in this space... here is one list by a company: https://www.dacast.com/blog/how-does-white-label-video-streaming-work/#anchor_4 https://www.dacast.com/blog/how-does-white-label-video-strea... Or you might be able to API-integrate Cloudflare Stream (or a similarly low-level CDN offering) with the LMS system directly, if they offer such interconnects. My guess is that ease of use would probably get you a better ROI than strong piracy protections in this case and it's probably not worth it to go for DRM or rental models? IMHO only.

iainctduncan 5y ago

I can't recall, I just got the financials, and what they figured they had to charge per seat seemed very high to me. But it wasn't a video PaaS, it was a whole learning management system PaaS, so the video (the part they really need) is coming with an overall expensive package. LMS's are a good racket! lol. I implemented one years ago for a company doing corporate training (had to replace their flash system, ouch!) and it just wasn't that much work to build something in house that competed with the overpriced LMS PaaS's out there for their particular needs. My perception is people are paying a ton for all the feature bloat, and often using like 20% of it.

technobabbler 5y ago
Hah! As soon as you posted this, my first thought was, "I bet they're getting overcharged by some shitty LMS". A lot of those companies resell video hosting for an insane markup. Glad you're trying to find them a better deal. If you need to be able to charge PPV or per month or whatever, Vimeo also offers a billable solution: https://vimeo.com/ott/pricing https://vimeo.com/ott/pricing (OTT is apparently "over-the-top", as in PPV that bypasses cable/satellite/etc... according to wikipedia. Must be a cable-era term.) There are a bunch of other providers in this space... here is one list by a company: https://www.dacast.com/blog/how-does-white-label-video-streaming-work/#anchor_4 https://www.dacast.com/blog/how-does-white-label-video-strea... Or you might be able to API-integrate Cloudflare Stream (or a similarly low-level CDN offering) with the LMS system directly, if they offer such interconnects. My guess is that ease of use would probably get you a better ROI than strong piracy protections in this case and it's probably not worth it to go for DRM or rental models? IMHO only.