Video Delivery

What it is

Video Delivery encodes uploads into adaptive ladders and serves HLS from The Crown. Watermarks, signed playback, and caption tracks are first-class.

Cloudflare analogue: Cloudflare Stream. SLA 99.95% · p99 80ms. Operators ingest video. Admins set watermark and bitrate.

• ▸Adaptive HLS
• ▸Signed playback
• ▸Captions
• ▸Origin-less delivery

How it works

Ingest a title. Zipper encodes an HLS ladder and plays from The Crown.

Signed playback keeps paid videos off the public internet. Captions and watermarks are Policy.

Use cases

Concrete ways teams use this service on day one.

Set it up in the dashboard

Dashboard → Services → Video Delivery. Ingest title + duration. Policy sets HLS and watermark.

API

Control-plane: GET|POST /api/v1/video. Send Authorization: Bearer tz_live_YOUR_TOKEN.

Creates count against the plan quota. A 402 plan_limit means you are at the cap — upgrade or delete an unused resource.

curl -sS -X POST https://tinyzipper.com/api/v1/video \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer tz_live_YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"Product tour","duration_seconds":180}'

const res = await fetch("https://tinyzipper.com/api/v1/video", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.ZIPPER_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  }
});
const json = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(json.error ?? res.statusText);
console.log(json);

Tips

Take-down: purge via The Archives using the playback prefix.

• ▸SOC 2
• ▸GDPR

Runbook

Ingest and play from zipper-b at /edge/video. Require signed playback on paid content. Keep a poster frame. Purge via The Archives if a title is taken down.