Fluidcast is a complete turnkey Video on Demand system for the mainstream industry.

Upload fully encoded Flash (FLV) or MP4 videos in batch methods. Encode HD and non HD videos in AVI, Mpeg, MP4, AVI, MOV, etc to MP4 into the Fluidcast system. Manage your videos, assign metadata and decide on how to monetize the videos based on these business models;

A user of the VOD system creates a FREE account in order to start watching videos and then has to load either “minutes” or “money” based on the billing method which has been assigned by the admin.

The minute load method:

Videos are monetized based on a pay per minute view method. As a user watches any video which is enabled to (deduct minutes) from a user’s account. The minutes are deducted from a user’s account until that account no longer has any minutes left in the account. A user has to “load” minutes into the account. The admin determines the cost of each “minute block” – for example $20 for 300 minutes or $50 for 1000 minutes, etc. An admin can also determine which videos are set as enabled to deduct minutes or not (in the case you want to offer videos for free.)

The money load method:

Each video or scene of each video is assigned a Pay per view price. Each price can be different such as $2.00 per minute, $4.00 per minute, $.20 cents per minute, or even $0 per minute (if you want that video to be free.) Users have to “load” their accounts in order to watch videos, when a user’s account is $0 then they are forced to add more money to their account. The admin sets what amounts a user can load their account such as: $20,$30,$50, etc.

Free Trailers on the frontpage and trailers on video pages – These trailers are all set to be FREE and DO NOT deduct minutes or money.

Rental Streaming. An admin can set any video to be viewed for a particular time – set in days/hours/minutes and sets an exact price for unlimited flash stream viewing of that video. Example $7.95 for unlimited viewing for 2 days.

Pay per Download: An admin can upload or encode a WMV, AVI, MP4, etc, type video for direct download by the user to own. The admin sets the price for the is video and the user has the ability to download this video as many times as they want after they have paid for it. Example: $19.95 for unlimited downloads.

Pay per Download (rental): An admin can do decide on a downloadable video to have a set expiration date in days/hours/minutes.

Free Streaming: Any video an admin either sets as disabled for minutes to be deducted or $0 as a PPM in the money method becomes a free video to watch. This could be used in situations such as tube or free sites based on advertising business models. An admin could also make the subscriber area only available based on a monthly recurring fee and make all the videos free to watch as long as that user continues to pay for a membership. (This would require some coding of the database to connect to the biller in order to qualify that user under this method.)

List of Features:

• Upload Videos – Fluidcast system allows you to batch upload videos for encoding directly from the admin. Our batch upload system allows you to upload raw videos in AVI, Mpeg, WMV, FLV, Mov and many other formats and encode them directly for encoding and delivery into the VOD system.
• Fluidcast FTP batch upload function also allows you to upload videos using your own FTP software in bulk and automatically will spider folders for metdata, screenshots and thumbnails as well as trailers and scenes and automatically add them into the VOD system.
• Encode Videos. Fluidcast can encode films from almost any source video format into Mp4 format ready for video streaming. With Fluidcast, you can encode videos by creating profiles for each quality you want to provide to your users. Such as “Low”, “Medium”, “High”, and “High Definition.”
• Encode Videos with the Fluidcast encoding system, you can also encode videos from raw files into formats for downloading by your users such as AVI, Mpeg and Wmv.
• Make Scenes with Fluidcast, you can take a full length raw video and encode it into a Mp4 streaming ready video by choosing the in and out edit points and create your own scene to sell as you wish.
• Manage Videos. Fluidcast Video on Demand software, is a complete solution for managing your VOD videos. You can add and edit metadata, keywords, and thumbnails as well as offer trailers, attach scenes and allow users to purchase videos in a multitude of methods.
• Manage Sections. With Fluidcast, you can manage categories, attach directors, actors and other metdata to your videos for easy filtering of your content by your users. Make it easy for your users to find what they are looking for.
• Manage Billing. Fluidcast comes with billing integration and management built in. Control how each video will be payed for. From loading by money, creating discounts for certain load values, loading by minutes, pay per minute, pay per download, rental per view and many other solutions.
• See Reports. With Fluidcast you can see real time stats of all your videos and partner accounts and the amount of gross and net income generated for each video or by date period.
• Manage Studio Operators (Partners.) Fluidcast comes with a complete partner program. Partners can sign up to your site and an administrator can assign videos to that partner as well as select a percentage payout to that partner. Partners can see when they will receive payments as well as see reports of income in real time.
• Manage Pages and Templates with Fluidcast. You can manage and create individual pages such as “support” and “about us” pages and manage them via a simple to use WYSIWYG system.
• The Fluidcast template system is built upon a caching based smarty template system. This template system, allows you to easily modify the look and feel of the frontend and studio operator frontends easily to match your site design.
• Customize templates. Fluidcast is fully customizable, and can be made to look exactly as you require. Fluidcast is offered in three different skins and each skin can be changed easily.
• Manage Servers. With Fluidcast you can manage your streaming servers via the administrative area. Here you can set which servers are primary or secondary, as well as create failover and offer load balancing for all your video streaming servers. Fluidcast works with Red5, Wowza and Flash Media Server

Summary of key features:

• Batch upload videos to the admin area
• Batch encode videos using profiles to Mp4
• Batch add videos to VOD system using FTP method
• Manage Categories, keywords, directors, actors and titles easily
• Manage videos simply
• Change the frontend template and add pages in the admin
• Create numerous billing offerings for each video
• Uses the JWPlayer which can be customized to your needs.
• Manage trailer, recommended and featured videos
• Create numerous admin accounts
• Manage Studio Operators (Partners) and set Owned Operators for each video and set percentage payouts
• See reports of all videos purchased, breakdown by video, payment type and profits from Partners
• Manage emails to users, Studio Operators and admins
• Manage servers including choosing which server you want to be currently active