Low-cost white label video solution

July 21, 2009 10:45 AM

Do you know a low-cost white label video solution with privacy settings that hide the video from the public but allow you to embed the video where you want?

I'm looking for a low-cost white-label video solution for my business that will allow me to embed videos behind a log-in, for the eyes of registered users only. The registered users won't be able to share the videos (embedding disabled). Ideally, it would also:

-be easy to use (we would like to have users upload videos themselves)
-allow us to put our brand/logo on the video/video player
-not have ads

We've looked at free solutions (YouTube, Vimeo) and white-label solutions (Brightcove, Watershed, Twistage, Castfire), but the former don't fit our needs and the latter are priced too high for our needs. We'll only be uploading a dozen or so videos a month. So far the best fit looks like Viddler, but at $100 a month I'd like to see if there's anything cheaper.

Thanks in advance!

posted by ialas to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: I have no direct experience with this, but it seems like you should be able to use a generic flash-based FLV player (this is the first one I found) on your site and have the access to videos limited by your site authentication as you would with other restricted media. The player loads the files from the user's browser, so it's limited by standard password functionality. They can try to embed the video somewhere, but public users won't be authenticated so they'll see nothing.
posted by beerbajay at 11:20 AM on July 21, 2009

Several photo sites like Flickr or fotki.com will allow use of video; I can't research it further but you may wish to give one of those a try.
posted by dwbrant at 10:37 AM on July 22, 2009

Motionbox?
posted by reddot at 7:37 PM on August 5, 2009