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api.video vs Bitmovin: What are the differences?
What is api.video? Encode any type of video and broadcast within seconds. api.video is a scalable webservice with an API based on the REST standard. Our cloud infrastructure allows you to host and broadcast your videos with only a few lines of code. Our API can encode on the go to facilitate immediate playback, enhancing viewer experiences across multiple devices and platforms.
What is Bitmovin? Video Infrastructure for the Web. It provides adaptive streaming infrastructure for video publishers and integrators. Fastest cloud encoding and HTML5 Player, play Video Anywhere.
api.video and Bitmovin belong to "Video Streaming" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by api.video are:
- Quick and Easy Integration
- Built to Answer Frequently Requested and Long Tail On-Demand Videos
- Automatic Error Sorting
On the other hand, Bitmovin provides the following key features:
- Encoding
- Player
- Analytics
We want to make a live streaming platform demo to show off our video compression technology.
Simply put, we will stream content from 12 x 4K cameras ——> to an edge server(s) containing our compression software ——> either to Bitmovin or Wowza ——> to a media player.
What we would like to know is, is one of the above streaming engines more suited to multiple feeds (we will eventually be using more than 100 4K cameras for the actual streaming platform), 4K content streaming, latency, and functions such as being to Zoom in on the 4K content?
If anyone has any insight into the above, we would be grateful for your advice. We are a Japanese company and were recommended the above two streaming engines but know nothing about them as they literally “foreign” to us.
Thanks so much.
I've been working with Wowza Streaming Engine for more than 10 years, and it's likely very well suited to your application, particularly if you intend to host the streaming engine software. But, you should confirm that both the encoding format (e.g. H.264) and transport protocol (e.g. RTMP) you intend to use is supported by Wowza.
