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Ranx99's avatar

Video hosting and streaming solutions!

For an e-learning website project , what is the best service for video hosting and streaming? And since I want only allowed users who took some course to watch or download course's videos, I see these options:

  • S3 > Elastic Transcoder > Cloudfront ( Signed URLs)
  • Vimeo ( Private Link )
  • Wistia ( I don't know about it much )

I was wondering, which one is the cheapest service? is there a better one out there? I want your opinions and experiences in what is the best way to go..

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jlrdw's avatar

Also look over:

  • Wirewax
  • Rapt Media
  • HapYak

I think Jeffrey uses Vimeo, but you may need slides also.

Ranx99's avatar

@jlrdw

I like Vimeo, but since I will allow users to upload their videos and Vimeo uses an API rate limit , doesn't that mean my app will get blocked if it exceeded that limit ?

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jlrdw's avatar

They have several plans to choose from. See if they have any pre-sales technical questions advisors.

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