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.

VidZapper video management system interface

General

  • Fully featured video content management and playout system for managing all of your internet TV, mobile, web video and app videoneeds
  • 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 any source on the internet
  • Auto import content from any network, CDN or cloud service
  • NEW – powerful local or remote encoding applications
  • Intuitive 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
  • Perfect platform for video apps

Player Features

  • Drag and drop player builder – build sophisticated players in minutes
  • Full screen video playback
  • Full HD support
  • Full support for formats including Windows Media (WMV), Flash Video (FLV), WebM and HD Video (MOV/MP4)
  • http, rtmp and rtsp support
  • Facebook Player
  • Quickly build stand alone embeded player for specific clips
  • Adaptive bitrate support
  • Video controls with wide range of skins, or build your own
  • Player components include video playback, video control, images, text, scripts, hyperlinks, backgrounds, search, share, playlists, all fully configurable
  • Upload Content wizard for UGC
  • 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
  • Advanced ad video play-in

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 XML/MediaRSS 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 and Joomla
  • 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 points on a video and create and manage events
  • 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, including base iPhone app code
  • Integrate with third party services such as Twitter, Facebook, Disqus, Ebay, Paypal, etc..
  • Multilingual support
  • Players fully configurable and customisable using XML and Photoshop

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
  • Insert pre-roll, instream and post-roll ads

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