Top Features to Look For When Building a No-Code Video Streaming App
This blog post is part of our content collaboration with Muvi — one of the leading no-code OTT platforms in the world. Together with Muvi, we enable media companies and content creators to build and deliver lightning-fast, secure, and scalable streaming apps across any device.
Planning to build your own-branded video streaming app like Netflix or Hulu, but confused about which features to deploy for user engagement? This blog will guide you through the top video streaming features that you must include in your streaming app in 2025.
Medianova partners with Muvi, a leading no-code streaming app builder, providing a powerful streaming ecosystem for high-performance and efficient content delivery solutions.
This strategic collaboration between Medianova and Muvi aims to provide an end-to-end video streaming solution for content creators, media distributors, and big production companies, allowing them to efficiently deliver superior streaming experiences across devices and geographies.
While Medianova takes care of the server scalability and ultra-low latency streaming, Muvi offers a feature-rich OTT app development framework with robust security and monetization scopes.
If you’re someone who wants lightning-fast, secure video delivery across multiple streaming ecosystems like Android, iOS, Roku, Fire TV, Samsung TV, etc., then availing this joint streaming solution by Medianova and Muvi can greatly help you.
You can easily build native video streaming apps for both mobile and smart TV ecosystems without any coding or technical expertise. Moreover, every OTT app feature that is essential for ensuring a top-notch user experience and playback is already integrated within the no-code streaming app builder. No further integrations or vendor dealings are required.
Let’s have a look at the essential video streaming app features that you shouldn’t ignore at all.
7 Must-Have Features For an OTT Video Streaming App
1. Easy User Registration & Login
Your video streaming application should offer a simple and quick user registration module. This will motivate new users to register instantly without dropping back. Muvi enables you to simplify user registration with email or mobile number-based registration. You can even activate social media authenticators like Google & Facebook, with the Single Sign-On feature, and allow users to bypass the tedious process of filling multiple data fields. Reducing the steps & time required for registration & login streamlines the overall user onboarding experience and minimizes the unnecessary drop-off rate.
2. Clean Home Feed with Content Recommendations
A clean, intuitive, and easy-to-navigate home screen sets the first impression for your users. Despite being a no-code interface, Muvi allows you to customize every aspect of your front-end via the drag-and-drop visual designer. You can select a mobile-responsive template, set the color tone, banners, logo, messaging, and everything to make it look sleek and professional as per your brand identity. To add charm, you can enable the AI-powered content recommendation engine – Suggest IQ, which auto-suggests relevant movies or shows to users, based on their viewing preferences and interests, right on the home screen.
3. Smart Search with Content Categorization
A search function is mandatory for a video streaming app, allowing viewers to search content as per their mood and interest. Muvi provides the best video CMS to manage and categorize all your content in one place. You can bulk upload your videos, name and tag them, create playlists, and feature sections – all using Muvi one CMS. Most importantly, it powers extensive library search, better content discoverability, and relevant results, enabling your users to find anything and everything using the smart search functionality.
4. Buffer-Free Video Playback Across Devices
Viewers hate buffering. One single buffering during playback can force subscribers to leave your video streaming app instantly. Medianova CDN seamlessly integrates with Muvi’s OTT platform and ensures low-latency buffer-free video streaming to users across the world. Our powerful CDN solution automatically detects the location of viewers and delivers content via a server or node that’s closest to the user’s location. Moreover, our advanced CDN setup also leverages Adaptive Bitrate Streaming technology to auto-adjust the video resolution in real-time as per the viewer’s network connectivity, ensuring zero buffering video playback.
5. Offline Viewing For Low Connectivity Areas
Offline viewing is the latest trend in the video streaming space. With no certainty about network connectivity during travel, viewers who are on the move often need the flexibility to stream videos without internet access. Muvi supports offline viewing and allows viewers to download their favorite series and movie shows. You can enable the offline viewing feature right from the no-code CMS and let your users download videos in their preferred resolution.
6. Playback Controls on Fingertip
Playback controls are a must for providing the best streaming experience to your viewers. Muvi allows you to enable multiple playback controls such as Play/Pause, Resolution selector, Playback Speed control, Add to Favorites, Picture-in-Picture view, Skip Intro, Auto Play, Auto Resume, and many more. You can easily enable these features in your video player, right from the CMS – no coding or technical integrations required.
7. Multi-lingual Video Support
Multilingual video delivery is essential for your video streaming app, especially if you’re catering to a global audience. By using audio dubbed tracks and subtitles in different native languages, you can expand your reach and connect with local audiences. Muvi allows you to seamlessly add audio track & subtitles into your videos – Simply upload your audio or subtitle files with the respective video in the CMS, and you’re all set. The video platform also allows you to generate auto-captions using an AI caption generator, saving you both time and resources.
Well, there are 1000+ enterprise-grade video streaming features that come pre-built with Muvi. You can enable any feature you want – DRM, Watermarking, Monetizations, Analytics, and many more. In simple words, Muvi allows you to build a feature-rich video streaming app and provide the best streaming experience to users – All from one single CMS.
Leverage this opportunity and launch a fully-featured video streaming app, without writing a single line of code or technical integrations. To know more about the collaborative solutions offered by Medianova and Muvi, feel free to write to us.
To explore how the Muvi + Medianova joint solution can support your video streaming ambitions, feel free to contact us or schedule a personalized walkthrough.
