How to Create a Great Video Streaming App
Many are wondering if video streaming apps will become our future, replacing television? More and more entertainment platforms appear every day. Live streaming apps have become very common, especially during these challenging times.
Therefore, if you decide to develop your own application, you can safely turn to Trembit for help.
What do you need to develop an application?
Video streaming platforms have replaced traditional TV and cable TV, making the use of these platforms more and more common in our daily life.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Claro video, and Disney are some of the platforms that hold our money in exchange for giving us the series and videos we want to see.
If you are not a content generator and want to have the same TV shows and movies on your platform as can be found on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc., you must create an alliance with companies like Sony or Paramount Entertainment where you must justify for which platform you are going to use the films, the countries where the platform will work, what type of security you are going to use to prevent films or series from piracy, the languages that you intend to use in the films, the types of subtitles that you need, the development of the platform and a payment of $ 100,000 or more (it depends on how many films and TV shows you want to use on your platform) for licensing, where you will be allowed the number of views per year and for each region (so you cannot watch all films, which Netflix has in your country).
How will you receive content
After signing an extensive contract and completing a series of documents in which you explain your entire business plan, platform security, subscription payment model and other questions that the content producer will ask you, you must create a secure channel, receive content that will be provided to you by the producer commonly used is an IBM platform known as Aspera Connect, which will allow you to create a secure connection as well as transfer heavy files.
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You will receive content with a mfx extension, this type of file tends to be too much, and a movie can be 60 GB in size, so you have to keep in mind that you need to have a very good internet connection (in fact, in the documents you have to fill in they will ask you what Internet connection you are going to work with), it is recommended to download several materials at the same time, this is to create a download farm or find a provider who will help you with this (it can take a long time if you do not have the necessary infrastructure).
Server for content
Another question that you must answer to the content provider before signing the contract is where, and how are you going to store the content to ensure that movies or TV shows are not pirated through the back-end service?
It is recommended to use a back-end service in the cloud for this, Amazon Web Services S3 bucket comes in handy as you will only pay for space and monthly service transfer. Keep in mind that you will be charged an average of about $ 75 per month for every 20 movies you store on the service.
Content security
Copyright is a fundamental part of streaming content, for which the content producer will ask you to use DRM (digital rights management or digital rights management) to avoid content misuse and piracy. Be very careful with this, because if one of these content is pirated due to not using DRM, and the content producer manages to demonstrate that it was due to not using DRM, you will have serious problems and legal provisions can break you.
All these aspects will help you develop and make your application the best on the market. However, the main thing is to choose a good development company, because a lot depends on it.
