Frequently asked questions

F4Stream.com is a video hosting platform: you upload a video once and we turn it into a fast adaptive stream with a player you can share as a link or embed on any website, blog or forum.

Yes. Creating an account, uploading and streaming are free. Premium plans add more storage, higher quality, ad-free viewing and priority support.

Sign up with your e-mail address and a username, then click the link in the confirmation e-mail. You can turn on two-factor authentication in your account settings afterwards.

Open Upload and drag your files in (or choose them). There is no file size limit and uploads resume on their own after a dropped connection or a closed tab. You can also upload from your own program with the API.

All common video formats: MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, AVI, FLV, WMV, M2TS, TS and more. Whatever you upload is converted to HLS, which plays in every modern browser, on phones and on smart TVs.

Each video is encoded into adaptive renditions (720p, 1080p) up to the height of the original and the maximum of your plan. The player switches between them automatically depending on the viewer's connection.

After the upload, the video is encoded in the background. It usually takes a few minutes, longer for long or high-resolution files. You can already share the link: the page starts playing as soon as the video is ready.

If exactly the same file already exists on the platform, it is added to your library straight away without uploading it again.

Yes. On the Upload page, paste up to 20 direct links at once (files up to 20 GB each) and we download them for you. Links of supported file hosts work too when you add your account of that host in Settings.

Every video has a share link (/w/…) and an iframe embed code (/e/…). Copy them from My videos and paste them wherever you like.

Yes. In Settings → Embed you can allow only the websites you list, block particular websites, or block direct links so your videos play only inside the players on websites.

Yes. Open a video's edit page and add subtitle files (SRT or VTT) in as many languages as you like; viewers turn them on from the player.

Yes. Add a domain in Settings → Domains, point it to us as shown there, and your share and embed links can use it.

It depends on your plan: Free: 90 days without a view; Premium: 120 days without a view; Premium Plus: never deleted. The days count from the last view, or from the moment the video became playable if it was never watched. Keep your own copy of every file: F4Stream.com is not a backup service.

A deleted video stays on our storage for 7 days before it is erased for good. Contact us straight away with its link and we will try to restore it.

Videos in the Earn mode show ads in the player, and you are paid for every qualified view at the rate of the viewer's country – up to $45 per 10,000 views. See all rates by country. Earning is activated for each account by our team: ask us with a link to where you share your videos.

Yes. In Settings → Earnings choose Own ads, then switch on your direct links and / or your ad network's script. Your ads take turns with ours in the player, and those views are not paid. Accounts without earning activated always run in this mode.

Views through a VPN, proxy or Tor, views with an ad blocker and more than 1 paid view from the same viewer in 24 hours are counted in your statistics but not paid. Your own views are not counted. Artificial traffic is never paid and leads to the account being closed.

Request a withdrawal in Settings → Earnings once your balance reaches $10. We pay in cryptocurrency (USDT, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin) to the wallet address you saved, after a review by our team.

In Analytics: views, earnings, countries and referring websites of every video, plus the viewers watching right now on your dashboard.

Depending on the plan: more storage, longer or unlimited keeping of unwatched videos, higher encoding quality, ad-free viewing and priority support. Plans: Premium ($14.99/month), Premium Plus ($19.99/month). Compare them on the Premium page.

With cryptocurrency, or from your earnings balance. A plan starts as soon as the payment is confirmed and does not renew automatically.

Use Forgot password on the sign-in page and we will e-mail you a reset link.

Send a message with the contact form. You can attach screenshots, and every reply is also sent to you by e-mail.

Send us a copyright notice as described in our DMCA Policy. We remove infringing videos and close the accounts of repeat infringers.