Bandwidth Utilisation
What is Bandwidth Bandwidth is the traffic utilized by your viewers watching the web video player (or HLS link). It is the traffic flow between our CDN and your viewers. How is Bandwidth Calculated Bandwidth is calculated based on the bitrate, duration, broadcasts per month, and viewers. The more viewers and the higher bitrate you stream […]
Activating VOD on Customer Plan
Video on Demand is activated on the Default Plan that exists in your Cloud Video Platform, however if you have plans created prior to our launch of the feature then it may be disabled for your customers. Here’s how you can enable Video on Demand features for your Customers Plans. Hint: Click on the image/video […]
Restreaming IP Cameras
A Relay Channel is capable of ingesting a remote broadcast into the platform which can be: Viewed from the HTML Player (CDN) Accessed directly via HLS Link (CDN) Recorded to cloud storage Published to an external destination such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitch or Custom RTMP The typical usage of a Relay Channel is to rebroadcast […]
Advertising
Monetization is getting paid for the broadcasts you publish online. The more people that watch, the greater your earnings. Broadcasters can generate revenue from their broadcasts by inserting ads at the beginning of the broadcast (pre-roll) and during the broadcast (mid-roll). You can integrate a wide variety of ad servers and ad networks directly with […]
Publish Zoom Meetings
Broadcasting your Zoom meeting is possible with a Zoom Pro account which allows for livestreaming of meetings.
Fallback Video
Live & TV Channels are capable of using the Fallback Video feature to turn your Channel into a 24×7 broadcast by uploading a Fallback Video which will play when there is no other broadcast available. This is a great way to improve viewer engagement and reduce the loss of audience between multiple broadcasts. Without Fallback […]
TV Channels – 24×7 UGC
TV Channels are designed to operate like real-world digital tv channels that you would find on your actual television, providing features to upload and schedule media to playout at designated times as well as be interrupted by live streaming content sent by an encoder. By default, the TV Channel will only broadcast when content is […]
Publishing
Now that your stream is broadcasting, you can configure automatic publishing to social media and other platforms. There are 5 supported publishers for YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Icecast Server, and Custom RTMP. Our Facebook and YouTube publishers allow for direct integration by logging into your account allowing them to be set up quickly and easily. https://www.mediacp.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Publisher.mp4 […]
Viewing Analytics
Analytics provide near real-time information about your channels viewers, location, devices, and bandwidth consumption. The analytics page updates automatically and it is not necessary to manually refresh the page. The information on the page as well as the Viewers count on your Channel dashboard, is delayed by approximately 1-2 minutes since it is populated and […]
VOD Playlists
Video Ondemand Playlists allow publishing of multiple videos to a single location and is commonly used for building a playlist of resources that relate to each other. It is possible to embed a video player containing the entire playlist, or embed a youtube-like grid view of videos to a website. Creating a VOD Playlist 1.Navigate […]
