Daffodil helps Dailymotion to build a robust and scalable video CMS, resulting in a seamless video experience for their viewers

The project began with our business analytics and software architects outlining the optimal architecture of the video content management solution. They refined the functional requirements and developed a complete product vision and its development roadmap. Once the strategic plans were mutually finalized, Daffodil’s team mapped the requirements onto the technology landscape. Daffodil’s UI experts applied design thinking techniques and role based user stories in order to build an easy to use user interface for the application. We developed a web based admin panel for role based access to information using Drupal as the underlying technology.

Daffodil also built an OTT application framework that was integrated with the Dailymotion portal. Technologies such as caching, Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABS), etc. were incorporated to automatically shift bandwidth to higher/lower levels according to the users’ bandwidth availability, and network conditions in real-time. We also enabled low latency streaming capabilities and zero buffering using less streaming resources to deliver an optimized and seamless video streaming experience for all the users.

Another challenge that Daffodil resolved was handling the thousands of video jobs from the client server for reviewing. The functionality was complex and required the integration with Dailymotion server through its APIs and SDK which was having multiple errors but the Daffodil team debugged all errors and implemented the functionality. Drupal fetches all jobs from the server once by default, however, the requirement was to send selected videos in small batches. Daffodil optimized the Batch call process in Drupal and resolved this challenge as desired. We created a custom module to manage the jobs (video reviews and tagging tasks). The role based module allows admin to assign the job to company manager and company manager can assign the same job to his team member. The admin can also assign videos to the company owner/manager to review or tag the video as per the video material. Further company managers can divide the task to their employees and finally employees accomplish the video reviews, perform tagging on video and submit for publishing.