Current state of digital media

• Creators can publish across platforms but don’t own their assets across these platforms

• Creators can reach billions of viewers but don’t own their subscribers/audience

• Creators can monetize in ways unimaginable before, but don’t ultimately own their revenue streams

Day-to-day problems

Most problems in the digital media supply chain revolve around:

• Fragmented management of uploads, metadata and rights

• Lack of collaboration when execution media workflows

• Manual encoding/transcoding/rendering pipelines prone to delays

• Disjointed distribution via CDNs with inconsistent / uneven performance

• Opaque monetization often leading to creators accepting whatever they get

What happens as a result of this?

• These inefficiencies drive up costs and slow down time‑to‑market.

• They underscore the need for a purpose‑built infra layer that unifies media management, distribution and monetization.

To smash the above and increase the monetization potential for creators and their media, to provide real earning opportunities for node hosts, we present to you, the OmniFlix Media Node.

Overview of the OmniFlix Media Node

The OmniFlix Media Node is our answer to the fragmented state of media infrastructure. It’s a decentralized, peer-to-peer node designed to handle the entire lifecycle of media content—from storage and encoding to distribution and monetization.

The OmniFlix Media Node sits at the heart of our infra layer, handling distributed storage, on‑demand encoding/transcoding and multi‑destination or multi-endpoint delivery. By integrating various functionalities into a single node, we’re providing a comprehensive solution that empowers creators and communities.

Key components of the OmniFlix Media Node

• Decentralized storage backed by IPFS and CDN‑style hot storage

• Video Encoding into chunks for optimal delivery

• Adaptive bitrate transcoding for seamless playback on any device

• RTMP ingress and multi‑destination egress engines

• On‑chain registry for node discovery, performance tracking and leasing

Key Benefits

The OmniFlix Media Node, an integral part of the OmniFlix Network, offers various benefits to stakeholders involved but esp. to Node Operators and Publishers/Creators.

Let’s take a quick look at some of them!

1. Node Operators:

   • Increase revenue by leasing the Media Node to various creators

   • Promote your own node and engage in longer term deals to keep it leased 100% of the time

   • Earn rewards on OmniFlix Hub mainnet for serving creators

   • In future, contribute to pooled resources to increase resource utilization

   • Engage in 1:1 deals with projects/creators & media organizations and exclusively offer the media node

2. Publishers / Creators

   1. streamline content management internally within the org

   2. integrate with existing publishing platforms and of course, OmniFlix.tv

   3. run your own OTT-platform / publishing platform for your community, with the OmniFlix Media Node as the base and your own UI

   4. monetize with ads or gated subscription platforms built wiht the Media Node as the base

Rollout of the Media Node & the beginning of the Media Node Network

The private repository of the OmniFlix Media Node is on GitHub and invitations have been sent to the people that registered to participate in the FrameFest incentivized testnet and also to creators that are keen on testing the infra.

Below is the roll out strategy for the release of the Media Node, marking the genesis of the OmniFlix Media Node Network. This is structured into 3 phases:

Phase 1 – Sovereign Media Nodes

1. Where individual node hosts run standalone nodes for managing their own media workflows or engage in a rental/leasing deal with a creator off-chain.

2. Currently live with multiple node hosts are already powering their streams using the OmniFlix Media Node

Phase 2 – Leased Nodes

1. Leased Nodes enable Publishers/Creators to lease node capacity over defined periods, with transactions (or leases) settled in $FLIX tokens.

2. Currently live with multiple creators have been given an exclusive access to test and try out the media node and this includes:

   1. Scott from ThePodocasts

   2. Chris from Coreum Community DAO

   3. Kris from FightFarmBetz with their Karate Combat Streams in collaboration with Podocasts

   4. Farmer from Believe in Something

   5. Artikyulate Music

3. This is a game-changer phase for OmniFlix Network to provide real solutions to real problems that real people have and not something that we created after web3 came about.

Phase 3 – Pooled Resources

1. This is a model where there isn’t just one node but a cluster

2. Node Operators can pool resources, enabling dynamic load balancing and enhanced monetization opportunities while Creators receive access to shared (or even un-used) infra rather than dedicated infra making it multi-fold cheaper to use this infra.

Are you a creator or a validator? Want to try using the Media Node?

Look no further!

4/20 (April 20th) marks the beginning of FrameFest, an incentivized Media DePIN testnet to demonstrate the potential of the media stack and the interactions between Media Node Hosts, Creators and Viewers.

The testnet has a pool of 250,000 FLIX in rewards for the stakeholders involved and also for content creators, creating content around the Media DePIN infra and the OmniFlix Media Node.

Try out the apps:

• OmniFlix TV (for FrameFest) -- https://FrameFest.OmniFlix.tv

• OmniFlix Market (for FrameFest) -- https://FrameFest.OmniFlix.market

• OmniFlix Studio (for FrameFest) -- https://FrameFest.OmniFlix.studio

• Looking to run a Media Node during FrameFest? Fill this form and after you do, you will find the link to a form. Please join the group and we will guide you through the process with an invite to a Private GitHub repository.

Join us on the Discord Server or the Telegram group for further details.

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Read more about FrameFest here.