Frequently Asked Questions

Viewers rarely praise them but always notice their absence. Without preview thumbnails a player feels clumsy, which is why Vodlix includes trick play as standard.

None by hand. A preview frame is taken every two seconds when the video is processed, whatever its length, and grouped 36 to an image, so a ninety minute film needs 75 small images and a twenty two minute episode 19.

That is the usual approach. Apple TV, Android TV, Roku and Samsung Tizen all read one catalogue and one subscriber base, so each platform you add is extra reach rather than extra maintenance.

Use an external embed for marketing clips, promotional content and third party video that does not need a paywall, territory restrictions or your own analytics. Host paid and exclusive content on Vodlix instead.

Upload it through Vodlix Video Uploading and Transcoding. Hosted video is delivered through your CDN, protected by conditional access, geo fencing and DRM, and feeds your own analytics.

It can remove the video, restrict it regionally, place its own advertising in front of it or change how embedding works, and you will not be consulted. For marketing material that is acceptable. For paid content it is not.

Attach the trailer to the title on your own platform. It then plays in your player, counts in your numbers, can be published before the film it promotes, and travels wherever that title appears.

Vodlix video encoding settings control how many renditions, at which resolutions and bitrates, each upload produces, so you choose the encoding ladder deliberately rather than by default.

It stores the source alongside the transcoded versions, which allows the original to be downloaded and enables playback before transcoding finishes. The cost is holding a second copy of everything, so it is worth switching on deliberately rather than by default.

Vodlix transcodes each upload into multiple renditions, packages it for adaptive playback on phones, browsers and TVs, attaches artwork and stores it on the CDN, so the file is ready to publish on every screen.

Vodlix offers three ingest routes: direct upload through the admin area for single titles, fetch from a public URL for larger volumes and automation, and bulk delivery over secure FTP for migrations.

Yes. The Vodlix REST API ingests new video from a public HTTPS URL, so distributor feeds, production workflows and scheduling systems can push titles directly into your catalogue with metadata attached.

Secure FTP bulk delivery is the best route for a back catalogue. It moves hundreds of large files unattended, resumes interrupted transfers and feeds every file straight into the Vodlix transcoding pipeline.

Yes. Vodlix shows the processing state of every upload in the CMS while it runs, so you can see which titles are ready to publish and which are still encoding, with no guesswork.

It powers your continue watching rails, which is one of the strongest returning visit prompts a streaming service has, and it feeds your analytics with completion data. Knowing which titles get finished rather than merely opened is what tells you where your catalogue budget is working.

Yes. Site templates can be previewed, customised and activated separately, so you can look at an alternative before committing and switch back if it is not right. That is a different job from building one landing page, and it is deliberately kept as a different screen.

Vodlix CMS is a user-friendly and modern content management system for videos with advanced features such as scheduling, reporting & analytics, secure live streaming, exclusive subscription management, user management, SEO management, and power pack marketing tools.

Vodlix supports bulk upload of subtitles via SFTP, making it easy to upload large files without missing any text.

Subtitles are text alternatives for the dialogue in a video, while closed captions describe additional sounds and noises present in the video.