Question 1

Where are my videos hosted?

Accepted Answer

You choose. Videos can live on your own S3-compatible object storage or on a dedicated video provider such as Bunny Stream, Vimeo, or YouTube. Free managed hosting is used first, and your own provider account takes over as overflow, so you are never locked into one place.

Question 2

Can students download or pirate my videos?

Accepted Answer

Provider-hosted videos play through a signed, tokenized embed — there is no download button and no raw file to grab. Playback runs on short-lived URLs that expire rather than a permanent path, so a link copied today is useless tomorrow. Videos on your own storage are downloadable only if you deliberately allow it.

Question 3

Do uploads pass through your servers?

Accepted Answer

No. The file goes straight from the browser to the provider you picked, and we never store or proxy a single byte. That keeps uploads fast and means they are never bottlenecked by our infrastructure.

Question 4

What quality can students watch in?

Accepted Answer

Playback goes up to HD and 4K, with adaptive streaming that adjusts to each viewer's connection. On a strong network they get the sharpest version; on a weaker one the stream steps down to keep playing without buffering.

Question 5

How much video storage do I get?

Accepted Answer

Video is metered by the gigabyte, and every plan includes a free allowance to get started. Beyond that you can stream from your own provider account, which is unmetered, or add more capacity in a single click. You only pay for what you actually store and stream.

Question 6

Does the page freeze while a large file uploads?

Accepted Answer

No. Uploads run in the background with a live progress bar, so you can keep building the course, add the next lesson, or move to another screen while the file transfers. Large provider videos then move through a clear processing-to-ready state as they transcode.

Question 7

Can I offer a free preview lesson?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Flip any video lesson to free and it becomes a public preview that prospective learners can watch before they enroll. It is one of the most reliable ways to turn a browser into a paying student.

Question 8

Does the player work on phones and tablets?

Accepted Answer

Fully. The player is responsive and delivers a native-quality experience on phones, tablets, and desktops, with native seeking and a dark-mode option. Students can start a lesson on one device and pick it up on another.

Question 9

Can students change the playback speed?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The player supports variable playback speed, so learners can slow a dense explanation down or speed a familiar section up. Combined with seeking and resume, it lets each student watch at their own pace.

Question 10

Can I release videos gradually instead of all at once?

Accepted Answer

Lessons can be drip-scheduled so they open on a timeline or after a learner reaches a certain point, rather than exposing the whole course on day one. That keeps a cohort moving together and protects your content.

Question 11

Can I connect my own Bunny, Vimeo, or YouTube account?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can plug in your own provider account and stream everything through it, which is useful once your library grows past the free allowance. The platform uses managed hosting first and hands off to your account as overflow.

Question 12

What is the difference between hosting on storage and on a video provider?

Accepted Answer

A video provider — Bunny, Vimeo, or YouTube — handles transcoding, adaptive HLS, and a protected embed, which suits large files and hands-off, download-proof streaming. Your own object storage gives you native seeking, HLS for big files, and the choice to allow downloads. You can pick the mode per video and mix both across one course.

Question 13

Do my videos need to be transcoded before students can watch?

Accepted Answer

Provider videos transcode automatically in the background and show a processing-to-ready status while they do. Videos served from your storage are ready to play as soon as the upload finishes, so there is no waiting.

Question 14

Can I set a thumbnail or poster image for each video?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can set a featured poster per video so every lesson looks polished in the outline before it plays. It is a small detail that makes a course feel finished and professional.

Question 15

Is live streaming supported, or only recorded videos?

Accepted Answer

This feature covers recorded, on-demand video lessons. Live teaching is handled by the platform's virtual classroom and live-class tools, and the two sit side by side — you can run a live session and publish the recording as a video lesson afterward.

Question 16

How does secure playback actually work?

Accepted Answer

Instead of pointing at a fixed file, the player requests a signed URL that is valid for a short window and then expires. The academy that owns the video is fully isolated, so no one outside it can reach the source. There is no permanent, guessable path to share or scrape.

Question 17

How many video lessons can I add to a course?

Accepted Answer

As many as you need. You add a video lesson to any section of the course builder, and you can stack dozens of them across a long program. Each one carries its own title, description, poster, and preview setting.

Question 18

Is my video library separate from other academies on the platform?

Accepted Answer

Completely. Each academy runs in its own isolated tenant, so your videos, storage, and viewing data are never visible to another organisation. Isolation is enforced by the platform itself, not by configuration you have to remember.

Question 19

Can schools and universities use this for recorded lectures?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Schools, universities, and training centres use it to publish recorded lectures, lab walkthroughs, and revision material that students can watch on demand. Because hosting scales by the gigabyte, a large faculty library grows without any change to how it works.

Question 20

Can I sell video courses and take payment?

Accepted Answer

Video lessons live inside courses you can sell individually, in bundles, or by subscription, with payments collected through integrated gateways in your local currency. The same lesson that streams securely is the one your learner pays to access.

Question 21

What file formats can I upload?

Accepted Answer

Standard web video formats such as MP4 upload and stream reliably across every device. When you use a video provider, it transcodes the source into adaptive streams, so you do not have to prepare multiple versions yourself.

Question 22

Do students need an account to watch a lesson?

Accepted Answer

Enrolled students sign in to watch gated lessons, which is how access and progress stay tied to each learner. Lessons you mark as a free preview can be watched without enrolling, so prospects can sample before they commit.

Question 23

Can I lock a video behind enrollment or payment?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every lesson can be gated so only enrolled — and where relevant, paying — students reach it, while preview lessons stay open. Access is checked on the server each time, not hidden in the browser.

Question 24

Can I add a quiz or homework after a video?

Accepted Answer

A video is often the start of a lesson, not the end of it — you can follow it with an auto-graded quiz, an instructor-reviewed assignment, or a certificate on completion. All of it lives in the same course builder, so watching turns into measured learning.

Question 25

Does the video experience support Arabic and right-to-left?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The platform is built Arabic-first, so lesson titles, descriptions, and the player all work natively in right-to-left, with full English support alongside. You can run a bilingual catalogue without a second system.

Question 26

Will playback buffer on a slow connection?

Accepted Answer

Adaptive streaming is designed to prevent that. The stream automatically drops to a lighter quality when bandwidth is tight and climbs back up when it recovers, so the lesson keeps playing instead of stalling.

Question 27

Do I need plugins or technical setup to stream video?

Accepted Answer

None. Hosting, transcoding, secure playback, and the player are built in — you add a video, choose where it lives, and publish. There are no servers to manage and no plugins to wire together.

Question 28

Can I see which videos a student has watched?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Viewing feeds into the platform's progress tracking, so you can see how far each learner has moved through a course and where they dropped off. That turns raw video hosting into insight you can act on.

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