If you are looking for OTT or OVP platforms for your business, then you might have come across Lightcast. It is a global video streaming platform provider that helps its users launch their OTT applications and websites. From media cloud … Continue reading
If you are looking for OTT or OVP platforms for your business, then you might have come across Lightcast. It is a global video streaming platform provider that helps its users launch their OTT applications and websites. From media cloud to Apple TV applications, Lightcast finds its application for education, entertainment, corporate and more. One of the good platforms to look out for, it does come with its own set of shortcomings. Platforms such as Muvi One are a much better and reliable choice. In this blog, we will show you how easy it is for you to implement Lightcast Migration to Muvi.
As an OTT platform owner, investing in Muvi One opens a full range of possibilities. Muvi One can build stunning OTT streaming websites and applications for a wide range of ecosystems. If you are using Lightcast, migration is seamless and can be done without any downtime.
Here are a few reasons why it is necessary to migrate from Lightcast.
Lightcast offers OTT platform development but that comes with its set of limitations that include the following:
Lightcast as we said before has its limitations. Therefore we highly recommend that you make a transition to Muvi One, a fully functional OTT platform provider. It lets you build apps and websites from scratch without the need to write a single line of code. The migration process is easy. More than the seamlessness of the migration process, it is the endless possibilities that you can create with Muvi One that make it an ideal choice for OTT platform providers.
Here are a few features that Muvi One provides that make it a better Lightcast alternative than many others in the market.
Muvi One is a completely no-code platform that enables you to design and create your OTT streaming platform without writing a single line of code.
The world is everywhere and Muvi One is ready for it. From Fire TV to Android TV to iOS to Android, you name the platform and Muvi One gets you the streaming platform built for it.
Gone are the days when you spent months coding applications. Muvi One lets you build fully functional Android applications for free.
Bonus Tip: It takes less than 10 minutes to build one
Muvi One deploys the latest content protection measures to protect your intellectual property using multi-DRM playback, screen recording prevention, dynamic watermarking, and much more.
Muvi One lets you drag and drop changes on your applications and websites instantly using an easy-to-use visual designer tool. The powerful Visual designer helps you arrange text, images, and other visual elements into beautiful layouts — without having to code.
Video content management system gives you accurate metadata management, supports bulk uploads, schedules content publishing, and manages all platforms from a single admin panel giving you more control over your content.
Seamless integration to Muvi Live lets you stream your content live across multiple platforms.
4K Streaming & Dolby Support
Get 4K video quality and Dolby Atmos 3D surround sound support for your audience to enhance your streaming experience.
Data must be answered and with Muvi One, get actionable insights in the form of reports giving you all information about the performance of your stream enabling better decision-making.
Muvi One comes with hundreds of industry-leading features. Read more for a full list.
Generate multiple revenue streams starting from ad-based revenues (AVOD), and subscription-based revenues (SVOD) and also deploy pay per view on the content. Also, generate coupons and discounts for your customers from time to time.
Let others publish their content on your platform independently and easily using Muvi One’s content partner portal.
Targeting short videos like TikToks. No issues, activate Muvi Minis and create your very own short video platform with content moderation, monetization, data security, and much more.
Migration to Muvi One is easy and most importantly while your platform is being migrated, none of your audience will experience any downtime. So while the migration process from Lightcast to Muvi happens, your audience can seamlessly enjoy your content. Lightcast migration to Muvi One is a 6 step process.
Once you send a platform migration request, Muvi deploys a team of engineers to understand the present state of data, its formats, location, and sensitivity. Once all that is recorded, a custom strategy is proposed to the client about the process and execution timelines of the migration process.
If during the data analysis, it is found that it is already in accordance with the Muvi-defined format of configurations, then a pre-built Muvi tool is deployed. If that is not the case, a custom script is created as per the user’s data and is used to start the import data process.
After the import script is finalized and the data is prepared for migration, our team conducts a test data transfer on a test database to verify that all configurations and settings are working. Post-analysis, changes are made if necessary and we go ahead to present our findings to the client.
Once the test trial is completed, we present our findings to the client’s in-house team for them to look at the results and verify that the scripts are right to go ahead.
Post approval from the client’s team, we start the migration of the platform and then conduct unit, system, volume, and batch application testing to ensure that the migration is correct and successful.
After the final migration, we offer it to the client and give them a fixed number of days for them to test the platform and report errors if any. Our support team is up 24/7 for all queries and anomalies if any are resolved within a specified time.
Many of you might be wondering how much time this whole process of Lightcast migration takes. Here is a timeline of all the processes mentioned above.
The next question that might come is what components are specifically migrated when you choose to migrate from Lightcast to Muvi One. Here are 6 essential parameters that are usually migrated but again it will vary depending on what you already have deployed on Lightcast and what you wish to migrate.
From an on-premise server, third-party cloud, or shared server, the most important thing to migrate is your audio and video data. Also, all the metadata associated with it is also migrated and your content is transcoded into multiple resolutions before it’s stored in AWS CloudFront databases.
Muvi One accommodates all types of user migrations from any system and supports a variety of user categories. These include registered users, free users, subscribed users, canceled users, and deleted users. Additionally, there are parent users, who are the primary account owners, and child users, who are secondary or additional accounts added by the end-users.
Muvi has instant migration support for Stripe and Authorize.net platforms. For all others, it will depend on integration support from the vendor side.
If your existing system configuration matches Muvi, it can be replicated to give you the exact user settings, authentication, reporting, analytics, etc.
Muvi boasts a robust API setup where all your 3rd party integration can be pulled and pushed easily and instantly. This will let you seamlessly integrate billing and invoicing systems, analytics, workflow management, and more.
HTML templates can be imported as is and can be edited with our HTML editor. Alternatively, your customers have the option to choose purpose-built templates from Muvi’s template store and edit them as per their requirements.
OTT platform owners can have different requirements and we fully understand that. Therefore, we have also introduced a 3-way Lightcast migration possibility where as a platform owner, you have the freedom to choose what elements of your existing OTT platform you wish to migrate to Muvi.
You can migrate your entire platform to Muvi One. This will include the migration of all your websites, mobile, and TV applications. Muvi as shared in the process above will help you migrate all of your platform seamlessly to Muvi in 4-8 weeks depending on your existing platform status and structure. Post an analysis of our team, we will be able to share the actual timeline.
You want to keep your own CMS and only want Muvi to build your mobile and TV applications. No worries. With Muvi One you can easily migrate your existing applications like iOS app and Android apps and keep your CMS as it is. This is a fairly faster process and each app usually takes about 2-3 days for complete migration.
On-premises content migration with Muvi involves managing all content metadata and artworks, while the video and audio files are served from the customer’s cloud storage through their own CDN. In this setup, we do not migrate the customer’s assets (video/audio) from the source location. Instead, the customer uses their own CDN to deliver the content to the Muvi Player.
So that’s it. Migration from Lightcast to Muvi is that simple. Muvi, as one of the global leaders in OTT platform software, should be an ideal choice for any OTT service provider as it offers a rich collection of features and scalability possibilities like no other platform in the market. We offer a free 14-day trial for all our products and request you to visit our website www.muvi.com for information about the same.
If you have already made up your mind and wish to migrate, contact our sales team today.
Written by: Shivashish
Shivashish works as a content writer at Muvi. He has worked in domains like e-commerce, employee engagement, sports and entertainment. A poet by heart, Shivashish believes in creating quality content that is rich in information and easy to understand.
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