Streaming Platforms (VOD/Live)
In the media sector, video now accounts for 80% of traffic. Your technical teams are juggling catalogues of several thousand hours, unpredictable audience peaks during live broadcasts, and users who demand 4K quality on their mobile phones just as much as on their connected TVs. The slightest buffering means a subscriber moving to the competition.
Behind the scenes, the reality is less glamorous: 50GB master files being transferred via WeTransfer, encoding that takes hours on aging machines, DRMs that need to be managed differently depending on the platform. Your teams spend more time firefighting than innovating on user experience. Not to mention regulatory pressure: accessibility obligations, French production quotas, content protection.
And when a live broadcast crashes during prime time, your call centre is overwhelmed and your management demands answers. Build-or-buy becomes an existential question: depend on a third-party platform that captures your margins, or invest in infrastructure that you truly control.
This solution belongs to the Websites, Content & Communities family.
Challenges holding back your performance
The current makeshift solutions quickly reveal their limitations. Stacking specialised SaaS platforms: one for encoding, another for the content delivery network (CDN), a third for analytics: creates technical silos and invoices that explode with volume. Generalist integrators sell you oversized white elephants, designed for Netflix, not for your 5,000-hour catalogue.Result: disproportionate infrastructure costs and a technical team drowning in maintenance. Conversely, open source solutions such as Jellyfin or PeerTube cannot handle production loads and offer no guarantees on the DRM required by rights holders. As for American pure players, their dollar-based pricing indexed to consumption transforms every audience success into an unpleasant budgetary surprise.
Our Technical Approach
Our approach is founded on a fundamental observation: a high-performing video platform rests upon three pillars that must function cohesively, rather than as a collection of disparate components.
Firstly, a parallelised encoding pipeline that transforms your masters into dozens of adaptive profiles within minutes, not hours.
Subsequently, an intelligent distribution layer that positions your content in closest proximity to your audiences: employing predictive caching logic based upon your consumption data, rather than generic algorithms.
Finally, a unified protection system that manages Widevine, FairPlay and PlayReady from a single interface, with precise tracking of rights by territory and exploitation window. The entire system is orchestrated to adapt automatically to demand: your live sports broadcasts with 100,000 simultaneous connections do not utilise the same infrastructure as your overnight catalogue.
You pay only for what you actually consume, with complete visibility of costs per content and per channel.
Adaptive Streaming (ABR)
Seamless transition from 4K to 720p in the event of a drop in 4G/5G signal.
Rights Protection (DRM)
Hardware encryption (Widevine, FairPlay) preventing illegal downloading of the stream.
Edge Video Delivery
Utilisation of specialised CDN networks to deliver video from a server proximate to the client.
Broadcasting Platforms (VOD/Live). Web & Mobile Players
Creation of bespoke video players in your brand colours.
Broadcasting Platforms (VOD/Live)
Powerful back-office system for cataloguing thousands of videos, series and associated metadata.
Viewing Analytics
Precise measurement of completion rate, abandonment points and engagement (Heartbeat).
Technical Architecture
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- Adaptive Streaming (ABR)Seamless transition from 4K to 720p in the event of a drop in 4G/5G signal.
- Rights Protection (DRM)Hardware encryption (Widevine, FairPlay) preventing illegal downloading of the stream.
- Edge Video DeliveryUtilisation of specialised CDN networks to deliver video from a server proximate to the client.
- Broadcasting Platforms (VOD/Live). Web & Mobile PlayersCreation of bespoke video players in your brand colours.
- Broadcasting Platforms (VOD/Live)Powerful back-office system for cataloguing thousands of videos, series and associated metadata.
- Viewing AnalyticsPrecise measurement of completion rate, abandonment points and engagement (Heartbeat).
Smooth and frictionless integration
Your media library exists, as do your production workflows. We don’t start from scratch. The infrastructure interfaces with your existing MAMs via standard connectors. Your teams continue to use their usual editing and validation tools.
Catalogue migration takes place in waves, beginning with the most consulted content. Legacy embedded players can coexist with new ones during the transition. Allow three to four months for a complete switchover without service interruption.
Technical audit and rights mapping
Analysis of your catalogue, contractual constraints and current infrastructure. Identification of quick wins and friction points.
Architecture and proof of concept
Design of target infrastructure and validation on a restricted scope — typically 500 hours of catalogue and an initial live test.
Progressive deployment and migration
Phased migration of existing catalogue, training of technical teams, implementation of monitoring and alerting systems.
Optimisation and skills transfer
Analysis of the first months of production, adjustments to caching and encoding rules, comprehensive documentation for the autonomy of your teams.
Measurable results for your organisation
- Encoding time reduced from 4 hours to 25 minutes for a 4K HDR master
- Rebuffering rate below 0.3% even during peak viewership
- CDN costs optimised by 30 to 40% through predictive caching
- DRM compliance validated by major studios and distributors
- Content publication turnaround time reduced from 48 hours to 2 hours
- your unified dashboard visualisation tool for rights, consumption and billing
Clarifying your decision-making
How do you manage unpredictable peaks, such as a football match going into extra time?
The infrastructure provisions additional capacity automatically within seconds. Alert thresholds and budget caps are defined with you to avoid surprises. In ten years, no Clarendis client has suffered an outage during a major live event.
Our rights holders require certified broadcasting reports. Can you provide that?
Broadcasting reports are timestamped and traceable down to device level. Clarendis generates documents that comply with the requirements of distributors and collecting societies, exportable in their usual formats.