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Kevin Sheurs@ksheurs · CTO, VHX
Hey there! Kevin here - CTO @ VHX. We're really psyched to see what people build with this / think of it. There is a big trend in media companies launching their own streaming service (ala HBO NOW) and this is traditionally a very expensive and hard investment. Lowering the barrier of entry and time to market should open up lot's of more content verticals fo… See more
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Chris Kurdziel@ckurdziel · Product @ Vimeo
@ksheurs super rad. Maybe you can shed some light on what's different about the VHX API vs. other more traditional video APIs (like Brightcove, Ooyala, etc)?
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Chris Kurdziel@ckurdziel · Product @ Vimeo
@ksheurs PS - any examples of stuff in the wild that's using the API?
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Kevin Sheurs@ksheurs · CTO, VHX
@ckurdziel The key difference is VHX is built for "premium access" to video and being a native end-to-end solution for OTT/SVOD. Brightcove, Ooyala, JW Player (or even a private Youtube video) can get you a video player on screen, but that's just a portion of the problems to be solved when running an online streaming video business. VHX not only can power th… See more
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Kevin Sheurs@ksheurs · CTO, VHX
@ckurdziel yea we made a simple demo demonstrating what you can do - http://www.wintergarten.io/. The source for this is in our Github (https://github.com/vhx/vhx-node-...) and we'll also be releasing code examples for Ruby, PHP, Go, Python.
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sheynk ✈@sheynk · digital - nomad - vc - product
@ksheurs Hi Kevin! Super interesting. Few questions ... would you guys be able to deploy to a last mile delivery method of my choosing (assuming you are serving from Cloudfront) ... if I want to be a bit closer to the metal with the CDN side of things (say I'm a regional telco in an emerging market) - is that something you guys can accommodate? On the same… See more
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sheynk ✈@sheynk · digital - nomad - vc - product
@ksheurs on that note ... how would you deal with pricing if I wan to deploy carrier billing and my own payments processing?
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Kevin Sheurs@ksheurs · CTO, VHX
@sheynk we currently support Akamai, Cloudfront, and Fastly and intelligently select the CDN which is the best for each individual customer / region. We're using Cedexis for this (http://www.cedexis.com). We don't currently support a "bring your own CDN" model, but it's something we're considering. I will check out Gravitational. With the API, you'd be host… See more
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sheynk ✈@sheynk · digital - nomad - vc - product
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sheynk ✈@sheynk · digital - nomad - vc - product
@ksheurs thoughts on carrier billing question?
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Kevin Sheurs@ksheurs · CTO, VHX
@sheynk we price $1 / per subscriber / per month. this covers all storage and bandwidth costs through our CDN's. so, if you were looking to build www.hbonow.com, you would handle payment with something like Stripe and post successful payment you would call the VHX API to create that subscriber (http://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/#cust...). we additionally have a con… See more
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sheynk ✈@sheynk · digital - nomad - vc - product
@ksheurs yeah - would be fine with the core in aws in tokyo (fastest ping to GCC) -- but would really prefer control over last mile in places where Akamai doesnt reach well
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