VOD Encoder

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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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Buy vs buy: Choosing the Right VOD Encoder Provider

Choosing a VOD encoding provider is a strategic decision that touches every part of your workflow. It influences how quickly you publish new titles, the visual quality viewers actually see on their devices, how much you spend on storage and delivery each month, and how easily you keep pace with new codecs, formats, and compliance requirements. The biggest differences between providers come from architecture and cloud dependence, the depth of compression features like Per-Title, Per-Shot, and Multi-Pass, the cadence of releases, and pricing models that may be tied to storage or CDN.

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