StreamAPI – The Easy And Cost Effective Way To Incorporate Live Streaming Video Onto Your Website
- Monday, June 29, 2009, 17:29
- Internet, Social Networking, Web Tools, Websites & Blogs
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When it comes to streaming high-quality live video on your website, a barrage of problems pop up. Such problems are resolvable but what about the inexperienced users or people who just don’t have the time?
This is when StreamAPI comes in. Said to be “the easiest and most cost effective way to incorporate live streaming video into your website or application”, the service provides a white label solution which is fully customisable and scalable to help webmasters take their website live without all the hassle.
StreamAPI is capable of doing this because of their world-class data centres.
Another beauty of StreamAPI is their full high-definition support. They do this using VP6 and H.264 with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio and superior flash technology.
Their rates are very low which allows small businesses or single users to use their service. Users have to only pay $0.45 per GB they use and to make things easier, it even comes with an online calculator to estimate the cost depending on the duration, quality and number of simultaneous viewers. The average cost of a medium-quality event or a social networking website $74.16 an hour and $5,339.36 per month respectively. The services also doesn’t require the user to have knowledge of ActionScript programming.
StreamAPI also offers an analytics feature to users which will allow them to view demographics and where users are geographically, personally I think this is a vital part of the service and is very good. StreamAPI has been used to power billions of live streams on millions of websites based all around the world. They have done literally thousands of streams on Stickam which is basically the largest live streaming video website with thousands of members in their community. StreamAPI claim that their servers are very reliable and they won’t let you down. They aim to provide the best experience to the end-user. According to them they “use only the best networking and server hardware from our partners Cisco, Foundry Networks, and Dell”. Tell me what you think in the comments below. 
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Nice post, really like reading about live streaming, thanks
It’s always been so expensive to find a reliable host for streaming purposes – it’s good to see this new offering making things a bit more reasonable!