Migrate from Dacast to Flicknexs
Quick answer: To migrate from Dacast to Flicknexs, export your library and metadata, bulk-import them into Flicknexs (a white-label OTT platform with web, mobile and TV apps), rebuild your subscription tiers, re-publish your apps under your brand, and run both platforms in parallel until cut-over. Most catalogs complete in one to two weeks, driven more by subscriber and billing mapping than by video transfer.
Flicknexs provides a managed OTT platform with a guided migration service, so Dacast customers move their videos, users, pricing tiers and apps with the Flicknexs team doing the mapping and imports.
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Why teams move from Dacast
Dacast is a good live delivery and hosting tool. Teams move when the business becomes a subscription service that needs branded apps, a structured catalog, subscriber accounts and recurring billing rather than a paywalled player.
Flicknexs (a video-on-demand, live and cloud-playout platform sold on published monthly plans) is a common landing point because its plans are flat fees with no commission, you get live and linear channels from the first plan, and the same vendor runs the infrastructure, builds the apps and does the migration.
What moves, and how
Six asset classes make up a migration. Each row says how Flicknexs receives it from Dacast and what you keep.
| Asset | From Dacast | Into Flicknexs | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video library and metadata | Hosted VOD files and metadata from the Dacast back office | Bulk import toolkit maps titles, descriptions, categories, artwork, captions and series structure | Every title, its artwork and its taxonomy |
| Subscribers and entitlements | Paywall customer records | User import with plan mapping; passwords are reset by secure link on first login | Every account and what it is entitled to watch |
| Pricing tiers and payments | Paywall prices and packages | SVOD, TVOD, AVOD and hybrid tiers recreated; gateways connected; renewal dates preserved | Your prices, your renewal calendar, your gateway |
| Apps and store listings | Usually none; Dacast is player and embed led | White-label Android, iOS, Android TV and Fire TV apps; Samsung, LG, Roku and Apple TV as add-ons | Your developer accounts, listings and ratings history |
| Live channels and schedules | Live channels, RTMP ingest points and schedules | Live events, M3U8 linear channels and cloud playout schedules | Your channel line-up and program grid |
| Domains, DRM and analytics | Custom domain, DRM policy and analytics exports | Custom domain on Flicknexs, Widevine and FairPlay via the DRM add-on, analytics from day one | Your domain authority and your historical numbers |
Source: Flicknexs migration playbook and our pricing page, 2026-09-03.
What to have ready before the first call
Migrations stall on missing access, not on missing video. Gather these eight items before the audit call and the first week is the export, not the chase.
A Dacast account that stays paid until the last file is out
Confirmation of whether your plan even includes API keys
Working API credentials and the exact header set
Your original masters, because there is no export endpoint
A realistic clock on live-recording downloads
Manual paywall and viewer exports, pulled from the dashboard
Your own payment gateway, plus a payout request already filed
The cancellation paperwork drafted in advance
The migration plan, step by step
Five steps, usually spread over one to two weeks. The Flicknexs team runs steps two to five with you; your side supplies exports and store credentials.
Five steps, usually spread over one to two weeks. The Flicknexs team runs steps 2 through 5 with you; your side supplies exports and store credentials.
Inventory the catalog from GET /v2/vod, not from a spreadsheet
Retrieve the media itself — per asset, and from your masters where possible
Export the money and audience data while the account is still open
Rebuild live channels and any VOD2Live schedules before you re-point encoders
Move billing off the Dacast paywall, then close the account in the documented order
Both streaming platforms run in parallel until your team tests and signs off on every device app.
A Dacast migration, week by week
Two weeks is the common case for a Dacast catalog of a few hundred titles and a few thousand subscribers. Larger libraries add days to the import, not to the plan.
access, tier check and inventory
Onboarding team opens your Flicknexs environment, reviews the Dacast VOD listing you produce, and maps channel_type and region settings to the equivalent Flicknexs live/playout profiles.
Check Settings → Integrations to see whether your plan includes API keys (Dacast documents these as Scale and Custom only), generate a key if so, and page GET /v2/vod to produce the asset list with titles, custom_data, paywall flags, durations and file sizes. If keys are not available, export the list manually. Confirm your renewal date and who your account executive is.
media retrieval and CSV exports
Runs the bulk import toolkit against the masters and the metadata sheet as batches arrive, and flags any asset whose imported duration or resolution disagrees with the Dacast record.
Work the download button per asset in batches, prioritising anything you no longer hold a master for, and schedule live-recording pulls around the five-downloads-per-file-per-24-hours limit Dacast documents. Export Paywall → Transactions, the paywall viewer CSV and the Audience/Paywall/Engagement/Real-time analytics tables.
subscribers, entitlements and your own gateway
Imports subscribers with plan mapping, wires secure-link login, and configures your payment gateway plus SVOD/TVOD/AVOD or hybrid rules to mirror the entitlements implied by the Dacast transaction history.
Reconcile the transaction CSV against the viewer CSV, decide how each historical purchase maps to a Flicknexs plan, and file the payout request from the Dacast Withdrawals tab — Dacast states the first request takes a minimum of 35 business days and is paid in USD only. Test the gateway with live transactions.
parallel run and cutover
Stands up live channels and any playout schedules, runs the full post-migration checklist with you, and supports the encoder re-point and app builds.
Run both platforms in parallel over at least one real event. Re-point encoders to the new ingest, recreate rebroadcast schedules, email subscribers to re-subscribe on your gateway, and replace every view.dacast.com embed and the prod-player.dacast.com player script on your own properties.
notice, and the Dacast deletion windows
Monitors playback, entitlements and analytics on the new platform and keeps the migration record so anything that surfaces late can be re-imported from your masters.
Only once verification passes: contact your account executive, email written notice to support@dacast.com to have the cancellation form enabled, and complete the form (reason, whether you are moving providers, effective date) at least 72 hours before renewal as Dacast recommends. Keep your exports safe — Dacast's Terms state content is removed within 45 days of termination, with a 30-day no-intentional-erasure window and retrieval after that conditioned on paying storage charges, outstanding amounts and professional-services fees in advance.
Dacast-specific things to check first
- Paywall purchases are not subscriptions; decide which past buyers receive a subscription entitlement on Flicknexs and for how long.
- Encoder settings change: note your RTMP keys and bitrate ladders so live channels are recreated without downtime.
- Embedded players on partner sites need the Flicknexs embed at cut-over; list them.
- The move is also an app launch, so allow store review time for Android, iOS and TV apps.
The five ways a migration goes wrong, and how each is prevented
Cancelling before the export is finished starts two deletion clocks
Dacast's Terms of Service section 3.2.3 states "Upon termination, all stored content and live streaming channels will be removed from the Dacast servers and systems within 45 days," while section 3.2.4 says that on termination other than for cause Dacast "will not take any action to intentionally erase any of your data" for 30 days, with retrieval after that conditioned on paying storage charges for the post-termination period, any other amounts due, and payment in advance for professional services to assist. Dacast's storage FAQ is blunter still: cancel without buying more bandwidth and "your files will be removed from your account." The safe order is export, verify, then cancel.
The original file may already be gone, leaving only renditions
Dacast documents DELETE /v2/vod/{id}/source as "Delete the source file of a VOD. Renditions are kept; only the original upload is removed," which means Dacast holds an original distinct from its renditions and that original can be deleted independently. If anyone on your team used that call or its dashboard equivalent to reclaim storage, what comes back for those assets is not the master you uploaded. Spot-check filesize and video_width/video_height from the API against your own records before you assume the download is a master.
Recurring paywall subscribers do not transfer — they re-subscribe
Dacast's knowledgebase lists selling through "the paywall that is built into the Dacast player" as the default route and says viewers "have the option to pay with a credit card and PayPal" there, and Dacast's FAQ directs viewers with refund, password or subscription-management issues to helpdesk@inplayer.com. The exports Dacast documents are transaction and viewer CSVs — purchase records and email addresses, not payment mandates. Every active SVOD subscriber has to authorise a new subscription on your own gateway, so plan the re-enrolment campaign and the grace period as part of the migration, not after it.
Dual-running costs more than the plan line, and unused bandwidth dies with the plan
According to Dacast's pricing page FAQ, "all bandwidth expires 12 months after you first got it," "All monthly plans require a three month minimum if paid month-to-month," and overages run at $0.30 per GB of data and $0.15 per GB of storage. Dacast's bandwidth FAQ adds that rollover bandwidth "only remains available for the life of the plan," and that unused bandwidth cannot be reserved once the service is cancelled or suspended. Downloading your whole catalog is itself traffic, and Dacast's Terms section 3.2.2 states no refunds or credit are issued on termination except for a network outage of at least 72 hours or where Dacast agrees in advance — so prepaid bandwidth you leave behind is simply lost.
Event-heavy archives hit a throttle and arrive without titles
Dacast's live stream recording tutorial states that a recording "is saved as an MP4 file," appears under Video On Demand "in a file that is named with the following format: Live recording – date, time (UTC)," and that you "can download the same file only five times within 24 hours." A season of services, matches or webinars therefore comes down as a pile of timestamp-named MP4s on a rate-limited tap. Without a mapping sheet built from the API's title, creation_date and custom_data fields, the archive lands on the new platform correctly but unsearchable.
The cut-over checklist Flicknexs signs before DNS moves
We check every item on the parallel sub-domain with your real content and a real payment. Both sides sign the checklist before DNS moves.
- Asset count parity: the number of items imported into Flicknexs matches the paged GET /v2/vod list from Dacast, including items whose `online` flag was false — offline assets are easy to miss in a dashboard-driven export.
- Per-asset integrity: duration and filesize from the Dacast API response line up with the imported file, and video_width/video_height from GET /v2/vod/{id} match the new renditions; any large discrepancy suggests a rendition was downloaded instead of the source.
- Metadata carry-over: title, description and every custom_data key returned by Dacast's List Videos response exist on the Flicknexs asset, with creation_date preserved so catalog sort order does not collapse to import date.
- Paywall map: every asset Dacast returned with paywall-enabled true is behind the corresponding plan or purchase rule on Flicknexs, and every free asset is still free — compare the two lists item by item, not by count.
- DRM coverage: Dacast's DRM article says DRM is available on Scale and above, is toggled per asset from the Security tab of the selected on-demand content, and uses Widevine and Fairplay. List which assets had it on in Dacast and confirm equivalent protection and playback on the same browsers and devices after import.
- No residual Dacast playback surfaces on your own properties: search your site, apps and email templates for view.dacast.com URLs, share codes, embed codes, and the player script at https://prod-player.dacast.com/js/player.js with its window.dacast initialisation, and confirm each has been replaced rather than left as a fallback.
- Live ingest: publish a real encoder test to the new Flicknexs ingest, matching the channel_type Dacast had (transmux versus sd/hd/fhd-transcode versus hls) and the same region, and confirm DVR and recording behave as the old live_dvr_enabled / live_recording_enabled settings did.
- Scheduled playout: any VOD Rebroadcast channel is recreated on Flicknexs cloud playout at the same local times, then observed starting and looping correctly — Dacast's rebroadcast channels have no RTMP/SRT/WHIP ingest, so a like-for-like live channel is the wrong target.
- Subscriber import: a sample drawn from the paywall authentication CSV (names, email addresses, content viewed, registration dates) can log in on Flicknexs via secure link and sees exactly the entitlements their Dacast transaction history implies.
- Billing end-to-end on your own gateway: a live test purchase, a renewal, a failed-payment path and a refund, all handled by you — Dacast's FAQ sent refund and subscription-management traffic to helpdesk@inplayer.com, so verify every help page, FAQ and autoresponder now points to your own support address.
- Analytics baseline: export the Dacast Audience, Paywall, Engagement and Real-time tables as CSV before cutover and record the account totals, noting Dacast's documented mapping of Plays to `hits`, Impressions to `visitors` and bandwidth to `bytes`, so the first month on Flicknexs is compared against a like-for-like figure rather than a guess.
- Apps and TV: confirm the white-label Android, iOS, Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, Samsung and LG builds play the migrated catalog, and note that Dacast's player documentation covers only the browser player — its August 6, 2025 blog post says iOS and Android SDKs are offered on request and that Roku, Apple TV and Chromecast SDKs "are also in development," so anything you shipped on Dacast SDKs needs an explicit replacement test.
- Exit checks before notice: the withdrawal request is filed and acknowledged, every transaction and analytics CSV is stored outside Dacast, and a random sample of ten downloaded files actually opens and plays locally — after termination, Dacast's Terms condition retrieval on paid storage charges and paid professional services.
What you pay after the move, with a worked example
A worked monthly cost for a Dacast service of 1,500 subscribers
Take a Dacast service with 1,500 paying subscribers, a web platform, Android and iOS apps, and one Roku app. According to our pricing page, that service sits on the F2 plan covering web plus Android and iOS, with the Roku app configured as an add-on, with flat platform pricing and no commission on subscriber revenue. See our pricing page for current plan and pricing details.
Dacast publishes plan prices on its pricing page; its plans cover hosting and live delivery with a paywall, and a subscriber app layer is not part of them, so compare against the plan you use plus whatever you pay for apps elsewhere.
Subscription revenue is untouched on Flicknexs because plans are flat fees with no commission, according to our pricing page, so the comparison is between one fixed monthly platform cost and whatever your current bill scales with.
Who does what
A migration fails when a task has no owner. This is the split Flicknexs uses on every Dacast move.
| Task | Owner | Why that owner |
|---|---|---|
| Export from Dacast | You | It is your account and your data. Flicknexs never logs in to a competitor platform. |
| Metadata mapping and bulk import | Flicknexs | The import toolkit and the content model are ours to operate. |
| Recreate tiers and connect gateway | Flicknexs, with your keys | Prices and renewal logic are configured by us; the gateway account is yours. |
| Subscriber import and login emails | Flicknexs | Plan mapping and secure-link flow are platform functions. |
| Brand assets and store listings | You | Logo, screenshots and listing copy carry your identity. |
| App builds and store submission | Flicknexs, from your accounts | We build and submit; you own the listing. |
| Cut-over checklist sign-off | Both | A named person on each side signs before DNS moves. |
| DNS change and subscriber announcement | You | Domain control and customer communication stay with the brand. |
Source: Flicknexs migration playbook, 2026-09-03.
Dacast next to the other platforms teams migrate from
Teams rarely compare only two platforms. The row for Dacast is highlighted; every other row links to its own guide.
| Platform | Primary shape | Pricing model published | Usual trigger to move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brightcove migration guide | Enterprise online video platform with OTT apps by contract | Not published; enterprise quote | Contract renewal, module count, want apps and billing in one place |
| Vimeo OTT migration guide | Subscription video platform, web-first, apps on Enterprise | Per subscriber plus a share of one-time purchases | Subscriber growth makes per-seat pricing costly; need branded apps or ads |
| Uscreen migration guide | Creator membership platform | Published plans | Outgrowing the creator model; need live, linear, partners or ads |
| Muvi migration guide | Several OTT products, each priced separately | Published per product, apps billed per app | Consolidating several product bills into one platform |
| VPlayed migration guide | Customizable OTT framework, customer-managed | Quote-based | Engineering upkeep; want a managed platform with custom builds on request |
| Dacast | Live streaming and hosting with a paywall | Published plans, bandwidth metered | Business becomes a subscription service needing apps and a catalog |
| Wowza migration guide | Streaming infrastructure and engine | Published, usage and license based | Want the whole service layer, not only delivery |
| Kaltura migration guide | Enterprise and education video platform | Partly published, mostly contract | A consumer subscription service needs a simpler, published-price platform |
| Mogi I/O migration guide | White-label OTT and micro-drama SaaS | Not published; demo-led | Want a published price, a self-serve trial and cloud playout |
| Vodlix migration guide | White-label VOD SaaS | Published plans | Roadmap adds linear or FAST channels or custom features |
| Wistia migration guide | Business video hosting and marketing | Published plans, media-count sized | Video becomes the product and needs subscribers, billing and apps |
| Vimeo On Demand migration guide | Sell-your-video storefront, closing | Per-sale fees; shutting down Nov 20, 2026 | The storefront is shutting down and sellers must move |
| Shift72 migration guide | White-label VOD and virtual cinema for festivals | Not published; demo-led | A festival window becomes a year-round subscriber service |
Source: each vendor's public website, checked 2026-09-03.Pricing model column reflects what the vendor publishes, not a quote.
What changes for your viewers, and what does not
For a viewer, the move from Dacast to Flicknexs shows up as one email asking them to set a new password by secure link, and then the same catalog under the same brand at the same address. Their plan, price and renewal date are unchanged. Their watch history starts fresh unless Dacast exports it, in which case continue-watching positions are imported for the titles that exist on both sides.
Apps update through the stores as normal updates, so the icon on the home screen stays where it was. Live channels keep their line-up. Rentals bought before the move remain watchable for the period you set at import.
What the admin tells you in the first month
- Login rate on the secure-link email, so you can resend to anyone who did not complete it
- Plays and watch time by title and by device, compared with the last export you took
- Revenue by tier and by gateway, with failed renewals listed for follow-up
- Channel viewing for linear playout, if you run one
- Redirect hits on old title URLs, which fall as search engines pick up the new pages
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about migration from Dacast on Flicknexs.
One to two weeks for most catalogs. Very large libraries or many subscription tiers can take longer; the Flicknexs team scopes the timeline after the audit in step one.
No. Accounts are imported with their entitlements. Subscribers receive a secure link to set a new password on first login, because passwords are never exported in readable form.
Guided migration is part of onboarding. Large catalogs use the bulk import toolkit, which our pricing page lists as a monthly module you can switch off once the import is complete. See our pricing page for current plan and pricing details.
Yes. New app builds are submitted as updates from your own developer accounts, so listings, ratings and install base carry over. Both platforms run in parallel until you cut over.
No. All plans are flat monthly fees with no commission on subscriptions, rentals or advertising.
Web-only services start on the web platform plan, mobile-app services on F2, and services with TV apps on F3 or F4, according to our pricing page. The migration team confirms the fit during the audit. See our pricing page for current plan and pricing details.
Dacast publishes live streaming and hosting plans on its pricing page, according to dacast.com, checked 2026-09-03; the plans are metered on bandwidth and storage.
That depends on your contract with Dacast. Check the notice period and renewal date before the audit call so the cut-over lands before the next billing cycle. Flicknexs does not contact the vendor on your behalf.
They keep receiving the secure link for as long as you choose to resend it, and their entitlement waits for them. The admin shows who has and has not completed login so you can follow up.
Yes. Flicknexs serves your existing domain, and public title pages are redirected one-to-one to the new pages, so search rankings and shared links are preserved rather than dropped.
The plan does not change; the import does. Large libraries run through the bulk import toolkit in batches over more days, and the audit call sets the schedule before anything is exported.
Flicknexs includes live events and M3U8 linear channels on every plan, with an advanced live streaming module for scheduling and priority delivery listed on its pricing page. For heavy multistreaming to social platforms, some broadcasters keep a delivery tool alongside.
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