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How to build a streaming platform in a day with AI and Bitmovin

Building a video streaming platform used to take weeks and a team of specialists. With an AI coding agent and Bitmovin, it now takes a day. Bitmovin’s CEO proved it by building Bitflix, a fully working Netflix-style streaming service in 24 hours using Claude Code alongside Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder, Player, AI Scene Analysis, and Observability solution. In this post, we walk through how AI coding agents work with Bitmovin’s MCP server and CLI, the step-by-step prompt sequence to get your own streaming service up and running, and what you get at the end.

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Enabling agent-driven video workflows with the Bitmovin CLI

TL;DR Most video workflows are automated in parts. Encoding jobs run on one system, Player configuration lives somewhere else, and playback performance data requires yet another tool to query. The pieces exist, they just aren’t connected. That fragmentation is where time gets lost. Even simple tasks like triggering an encoding job, updating a domain allowlist,…

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