Ravnur vs LinqTV Flex - Which Is Better For Media Management?
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Video has become an indispensable part of business. Enterprises are using videos to keep records, train their employees, educate their customers, and multiple other purposes. And with the increase in the use of videos, the need for good enterprise video and media management platforms has also increased.
Ravnur and LinqTV Flex have been among the top advanced media management platforms for many years now. But as an enterprise, you often need to choose one between these two. We are here to help you out with this process.
In this blog, we will tell you the major points of differences between Ravnur and LinqTV Flex, so that you can decide which one suits your business better. So let’s get started!
While Ravnur mainly focuses on enterprise live streaming and cloud media management, LinqTV Flex’s focus is strictly on secure and scalable enterprise video hosting and management.
While Ravnur mainly serves government enterprises with the help of Azure Government Cloud, LinqTV Flex caters to a diverse set of customers, ranging from big enterprise customers like Intel to medium-sized startups.
Ravnur and LinqTV Flex have certain infrastructure-level differences too, which are summarized in the table given below:
Microsoft Azure with Support for both Azure Government and Azure Commercial Cloud
Built-in support for AWS CloudFront. But enterprise customers have the option to bring a server of their choice.
Content and Platform Security
Ravnur is FedRAMP compliant.
LinqTV Flex supports Multi-DRM encryption with support for Google Widevine, Apple FairPlay, and Microsoft PlayReady. It also supports forensic watermarking. It is PCA-compliant.
Ravnur offers limited options for content monetization.
LinqTV Flex offers in-built support for VMAP ads. But you can even enable subscriptions and pay-per-view monetization via customization.
Let’s compare the video and media management features of Ravnur and LinqTV Flex in the tables given below:
Supported Video Formats
.3g2, .3gp, .asf, .avi, .flv, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .mpg, .rm, .vob, .webm, .wmv, .xesc, .m4v, .mkv, .ogg
mov, flv, vob, mp4, m4v, mkv, avi, 3gp, mpg, MXF, Mezzanine file, Apple ProRes video format for 422, 4444, 4444 XQ, HEVC encoded videos, and UHD H265 + HDR videos
Bulk Upload Capabilities
Video Organization in Folders and Playlists
They offer SharePoint media manager
Playlist with HLS Output
Video Metadata Management
It offers AI-powered metadata management.
LinqTV Flex offers extensive video metadata management.
Supported Codecs and Formats
The standard output is h.264/AAC in an mp4 container, but it does support h.265 too.
MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, VOB, M4V, AVI, 3GP, MPG
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
You can upload subtitles
Bulk-upload subtitles
Player speed customization
You can do auto-start but cannot customize the speed
You can take complete control of your playback, starting from auto-start, skip intro, and loop, to deciding the speed of the playback.
You can select quality levels
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