Theta - Released Theta Video API
Theta continues to bring revolutionary tech advances in 2021, late last week Theta Released their Theta Video API. Theta calls released this API as part of their Web 3.0 Vision!
What is the Theta Video API? It is a Theta labs service which allows developers to add decentralized video to any website or application without any central servers through Theta Peer-to-peer clients which as you know offers content delivery or video hosting software.
What does the Theta Video API support? Video on Demand (VoD) ingest and delivery services.
Future promises include Live Streaming! Another way to bypass CDN bottlenecks
What does it Cost?
There are costs for video delivery, ingest and storage. They all require TFUEL for payment(s). They are all fraction of a TFUEL each
Cost Notes - Encoding and Storage will not be available until 2022!
Skills required? - JavaScript code is the basis for the decentralized Theta API decentralized Stream library
Benefits of Theta Video API platform? - Significantly lower the costs of starting new video offering platforms, bypass the Censor happy Big Tech platforms
Resources
Theta API - https://www.thetavideoapi.com/
Learn to code in JavaScript - https://www.codecademy.com/learn/introduction-to-javascript
Summary - Theta's Video API really brings Video use to anyone who can put together just a couple of lines of code and point to their URL and bingo they have released Video to the masses! Go Theta Go!!!
