VidZapper may be very powerful, but is very easy to learn and to use. You can set up sophisticated video services in minutes using the intuitive interface.
General
- Fully featured video content management and playout system for managing all of your internet TV, mobile and web video needs
- Low cost of usage, no infrastructure costs
- Aggregated bandwidth purchasing gives you lower delivery costs
- Combine professional video with user generated content and videos from third party services such as YouTube, Vimeo and Metacafe
- Auto import content from any CDN or cloud service
- Local or remote encoding solutions
- Intuitive Flash based management console
- Comprehensive API for customisation and development in any programming language
- Supports multiple business models, including banner ads, video ads, sponsorship, subscription, pay-per-view, microcharging, affiliates, ecommerce and wagering
- Supports delivery to multiple platforms and devices, including mobile, tablets, set top boxes and internet
- Multiple business models are supported from advertising to pay-per-view, integration with multiple payment systems and baskets
Player Features
- Full screen video playback
- Full support for Windows Media (WMV), Flash Video (FLV) and HD Video (MOV/MP4)
- http, rtmp and rtsp support
- Facebook Player
- Build stand alone embeded player for specific clips
- Multi-bitrate support
- Video controls with wide range of skins, or build your own
- Banner and MPU spaces with refresh capabilities
- Multiple Playlists support
- Search for Content
- Send to friend and embed functions
- Upload Content wizard for UGC
- Registration and password prompt
- Totally customizable via API using AS, PHP, C#, etc..
- Syndicated Players can be easily configured using XML
- Extensible features such as ratings and tag clouds
- Fully featured HTML5 players for mobile devices and tablets
- Support for app builders
User Management
- Full control of User details
- User registration and tracking
- Create roles and workflow models for managing Channels and Content
- Assign User permissions
- Search, add, edit and delete Users
- Player based User registration form
Channel Management
- Create single or multiple Channels
- Assign Players, Playlists, Categories and Content to a Channel
- Multiple categorizations for Content
- Create and support multiple Players per channel
- Full support for scheduled, on demand and live playout
Content Management
- Combine professional, user generated and third party video – mix any video from anywhere on the web
- Supports multiple metadata streams for different data rates, language and devices
- Fully Media RSS compatible
- Moderate user generated content; send feedback to contributor
- Live event support
- Mix live feeds and file content for playout
- Integrate to traditional content management systems. e.g. WordPress
- Detailed real time, accurate statistics
- Integrate video directly into web pages and CMS
- Set content authoring and expiry dates
- Content deep linking
- Create sync point for specific point of the video
- Charging and microcharging options
- Sophisticated search functions
Player Management
- Use in-built ‘what you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG) tool to create Flash and HTML5 Players
- Use skins, templates and API to build sophisticated Players and to integrate the service with web pages and apps
- Build embedded and syndicated Players
- Facebook version of Player
- Mobile versions of Player
- Integrate with third party services such as Twitter, Facebook, Disqus, Ebay, Paypal, etc..
- Multilingual support
- Players fully configurable and customisable using XML
Playlist Management
- Use drag-and-drop to easily create Playlists
- Add multiple Playlists into a schedule
- Auto rollover of Playlist content
- Schedule advertising breaks in the Playlist
- Expire Playlists
- Scheduled and near-scheduled playlists
- Combine liver and file content in a playlist
Category Management
- Detailed multi-category management and indexing of content
- Create multiple categorisation of content, eg subject, date and location
- Multiple levels of categorisation allows for granular indexing
- Categories can be searched
Distribution Management
- Export playlists
- Make embedded players available for syndication
- Deep linking into host web pages
- Atom, RSS and MRSS distribution
- iTunes distribution
- Create SEO pages
Advertising Management
- Manage and schedule pre-roll and instream advertising
- Place and manage Google Adwords, banners and MPUs on Players; ads auto refresh and rotate
- Integrates and supports all leading third party tag based advertising systems, eg DART, Atlas
- Fully VAST (video advertising standard tags) compatible
