Unlike other video distribution networks such as YouTube,
the company distributes video clip content in its original format,
rather than transcoding to a lower bandwidth and lower quality version.
Due to this technology, a software download is required to download videos, or
view some videos in full quality.
The website also offers a YouTube-style Adobe Flash video player that can be run
from within a web browser.
Veoh uses both peer-to-peer (for its Player software application) and Adobe
Flash-based streaming video (for its website) technologies.
Veoh claims its use of peer-to-peer in the Player application enables distribution
of longer form and higher quality video files at a much
lower cost. It also means that bandwidth costs will
not rise in direct proportion to the number of users.