Inventory Hosting

Prerequisites

• An OBS bucket to be hosted has been authorized. For details, see Bucket Authorization.
• If you need to transcode media files or use a workflow to process these files in the OBS bucket, you can create a transcoding template by referring to Transcoding Settings or create a workflow by referring to Workflow Settings.

Notes

• After an inventory hosting task is enabled, it cannot be canceled or deleted.
• Inventory hosting is not available for IAM users. You are advised to use a Huawei Cloud account for inventory hosting.
• You can select only one authorized bucket in an inventory hosting task. To host files in multiple buckets, create multiple tasks.
• Hosted media files will not be hosted to VOD. However, if a new inventory hosting task contains the hosted media files and a transcoding template or workflow is selected, the hosted media files will be transcoded or the workflow will be executed, incurring media processing fees.

Procedure

1. Log in to the VOD console.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Audio and Video Hosting > Inventory Hosting.
3. Click Create Task.
   Figure 1 Creating an inventory hosting task
   

4. Configure related parameters by referring to Table 1.

   Table 1 Inventory hosting parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Input Bucket	Bucket to be hosted
   Range	Scope to be hosted. Bucket: all files in a bucket. You can select the type of file that you want VOD to host. Directory/File: a directory or file in a bucket. If you select a directory, all media files in the directory and its subdirectories will be hosted.
   Template/Workflow	Select a transcoding template or workflow to process hosted media files.
   Storage Location	The following storage locations are supported: VOD: Output files are stored in VOD. OBS bucket: Output files are stored in an OBS bucket. OBS bucket (same as input files): Output files are stored in an OBS bucket and their storage directory is named the same as the storage directory of input files.

   If Storage Location is set to OBS bucket (same as input files), the storage path of the generated file varies depending on the service type.

   Suppose the input file storage path is vod1/input/video.mp4 and the output bucket is vod2. Table 2 describes the paths for storing outputs.

   Table 2 Storage path parameters

   Media Processing	Output Path
   Transcoding	HLS format One-in one-out template: vod2/input/index.m3u8 One-in multiple-out template: vod2/input/video_0.m3u8, vod2/input/video_1.m3u8, ... MP4 format One-in one-out template: vod2/input/video.mp4 One-in multiple-out template: vod2/input/video_0.mp4, vod2/input/video_1.mp4, ... DASH format: vod2/input/video.mpd
   Snapshot capturing	vod2/input/video{timestamp}.jpg In which: timestamp indicates the timestamp of the snapshot.
   Packaging	HLS format: vod2/input/video.m3u8 MP4 format: vod2/input/video.mp4
   Thumbnailing	vod2/input/video_Cover0.jpg
   Subtitling	vod2/input/cc_1.srt
   Audio extraction	vod2/input/{newasset_id}/audioName.mp3 In which: newasset_id indicates the ID of the extracted audio file. audioName indicates the name of the extracted audio file, which is randomly generated.

5. Click OK.
6. Wait until the task status becomes Completed. Then you can view the hosted media files on the Audio and Video Management page.
   Figure 2 Task status
   

7. Click Details containing your task to view task details.
   Figure 3 Task details