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Flowplayer
Video platform for publishers, broadcasters & digital media
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Rait T.
Marketing Manager
10 reviews
Recommended
Yanick T.
Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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I discovered FlowPlayer a few months ago. I was struggling with the general management, editing, and processing of my videos. Its multiple features make FlowPlayer an indispensable tool for audiovisual professionals.
Make additional moves to take advantage of the most advanced features.
Nyla N.
E-Learning, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Excellent. I have no complaints with their services.
Ease of use, fast support and good pricing.
There was nothing I liked least about the software, everything was working perfectly.
Darryl P.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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We tried some open source solutions, but the only one that claimed to have the features we needed was simply far too disjointed, disorganized and involved way too much trial and error to even get a full-bodied test up. So we reluctantly dived into Flowplayer. It was concerning because they seem to be going cloud-hosted as well. We can only hope they see the wisdom in leaving self-hosted as an option always. Flowplayer has really been nice to work with and I think their pricing model is fair. For self-hosted needs, FLOWPLAYER IS THE ONLY OPTION right now - if you really need robust full feature. Save your team the time, and just go Flowplayer. Hopefully they have the severe bugs fixed soon without introducing a bunch more, and then its the PERFECT PLAYER.
HLS + Dash + MP4 with browser detection, priority sources was key! Multi-quality sources key! Subtitles + Thumbnail tracks very good! Easy to setup, mostly clean and comprehensive API - must have! Documentation is better than most - some room for improvement, along with some better standardization of API features especially in the UI area. Support that actually responds? well thats nice. Could be faster response, but a few days response time is better than none at all!
It has severe bugs we were surprised to be the first to notice and report. The company didn't take our reports seriously until we gave them examples where they could see it themselves. 'Severe' bugs are when documented features simply don't work. In this case, it was dynamically loaded playlists, with mixed sets of videos containing mixed sets of subtitles and thumbnail tracks. Flowplayer switched...
Scott B.
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for 2+ years
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We have been able to up our reporting game by knowing hoe far people are getting into each video being watched on our sites
haven't found any yet but I'll let you know if I do
Gabriel G.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Integration with our website was seamless and with low impact, the player works well in 99% of customers and we love how customizable it is.
While implementing it we didn't find any issues or drawbacks, can't think of any cons.
Ericka J.
Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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It has been great and met our needs.
I like its ease of use and how easy it is to get the code to place it on my show site. The analytics also help me track my promotion efforts with ease.
I wish I could change the color of the play buttons. I also would love live customer service.
Layla W.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, self-employed
Used monthly for 6-12 months
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Love this platform. Does the job. I am very happy
It works! It's easy to upload. Encoding is fast. The support team is brilliant. The player is top-notch and I have not had any issues with streaming worldwide. Great DRM too. Stats give good info.
None that I know of. Any issues I had earlier on were addressed
Rait T.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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It was easy to setup, several configuration possibilities. Video quality is good.
Expensive to pay it every month. No other problems so far.
Nathan H.
Entertainment, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Half of our content is for videos to be displayed to viewers, so FlowPlayer is a major part in this.
It works on all browsers & mobiles, auto detects HLS when using their hosted platform & has a very nice design + customisation options.
The pricing for basic needs (just the player) is not worth the money comparing to the other players available. If we want to display ads before our videos, we have to upgrade to their medium tier plan which is not worth the money if you only use the player for external videos.
Lars S.
Education Management, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Very seamless and easy to use.
Its easy to maintain the account, there are options to organize the content
The video management could be improved the dashboard could be updated
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