DASH video Host?

[nschwermann]

ExoPlayer seems great, problem is we can't find an affordable host for DASH content. It looks like a majority of the samples in the demo app are hosted by youtube. However, I can't find documentation anywhere on this manifest/dash api that is being used.

Is this a public api? Is there a way for independent devs to use it? Can you recommend any other host if not youtube?

Here is example of youtube host I am talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/api/manifest/dash/id/bf5bb2419360daf1/source/youtube?as=fmp4_audio_clear,fmp4_sd_hd_clear&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,as&ip=0.0.0.0&ipbits=0&expire=19000000000&signature=255F6B3C07C753C88708C07EA31B7A1A10703C8D.2D6A28B21F921D0B245CDCF36F7EB54A2B5ABFC2&key=ik0

[ojw28]

This isn't a public API. For YouTube, the recommended approach would be to upload content and use YouTube's Android Player API (https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/). I'm not sure if it uses ExoPlayer behind the scenes, but if not then it probably will do at some point.

I can't comment on other providers.