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VideoApp's snapSTREAM service allows you to stream Flash media, on-demand and live, from our robust high-availability infrastructure, guaranteeing superb and continuous delivery!

snapSTREAM offers an easy-to-use web interface to manage your content, powerful real-time reporting on streaming usage and resource utilization, BWCHECK automatic bitrate selection, optional SecureToken and proprietary SecureFlash technology to protect content from illegal downloading, and much more!

Best of all, the price! We are extremely competitive, at a fraction of the cost of most competitors. All features are included for only a flat rate of only 9 cents per GB delivered. Amazing quality, scalability, more features, guaranteed 100% SLA... what are you waiting for?

Why Flash video?

Flash (.FLV, .F4V) is by far the most popular streaming video format in recent years, with a 99% penetration rate. [Adobe Flash penetration comparison] snapSTREAM supports all Flash-compatible streaming formats including but not limited to Flash 8 (ON2 VP6) and Flash 9 (H.264) formats.

Ample Headroom for your Video Traffic

VideoApp utilizes multiple, redudant gigabit connections to the internet for its farm of load-balanced Wowza media servers, with virtually unlimited bandwidth availability. For live events or spurratic excitement, your streams will get delivered.

Ample Storage for your Video Assets

VideoApp has clustered network-attached storage servers capable of storing terabytes of video files. Furthermore, all media content is triple protected by being backed up onto our nearline backup system.

Powerful Real-time Reporting

VideoApp developed a comprehensive real-time reporting engine that allows complex nested queries, with split second execution, and realtime data! Includes geographic reporting which most other CDN's do not offer. View streaming reports and utilization reports, including bandwidth and storage.



Advanced Features

BWCHECK automatic bitrate detection allows FlowPlayer to automatically detect the end user's download speed and stream the optimal bitrate video. Optional manual override allows user to select the bitrate.

SecureToken and proprietary SecureFlash prevent content and URLs from being downloaded. You will be provided a digitally signed FlowPlayer on our servers which activates these features. Only a few simple lines in the FlowPlayer paramaters is required to enable/disable these features. Please inquire about the robustness of our copy protection as compared to competitors.

FlowPlayer plugins, which allow a variety of special features, like HTML and SMIL overlays, custom controls bars, playlists, Javascript integration and much more, are all supported.

Streaming Expertise

VideoApp technologists have been involved in streaming media since the mid 90's. This expertise allows a full-scope knowledge of the advantages, disadvantages and real world implementations of all streaming media types.





High-Availability Architecture

VideoApp's infrastructure is architected for reliability, scalability and availability. All components of our streaming architecture are transparently configured in redundant configurations to mitigate downtime in the event of eventual failure of components. Even our origin servers, for live streaming, are clustered.

Reseller Support

Our entire system is engineered for reseller support. APIs exist for all processes, such as new user signup, and our software is flexible to quickly and easily integrate with your site. Resellers can utilize IP addresses only or create DNS entries that point to our infrastructure to for a truly seamless integration. Reports and login screen can all support partner logos. [More]