Overview

After enabling VOD, you can upload audio/video files to VOD for management.

Local upload: uploads audio/video files stored on local disks to VOD
Pull from URLs: pulls source audio/video files from their URLs and then upload them to VOD

Constraints

Supported audio/video file formats:

Video: MP4, TS, MOV, MXF, FLV, MPG, WMV, AVI, M4V, F4V, MPEG, 3GP, ASF, MKV, WEBM, RMVB, VOB, RM, MTS, DV, DAT, QT, M2T, SWF and M3U8. M3U8 files can be uploaded only by URL pull.
Audio: MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC, AC3, MMF, AMR, M4A, M4R, WV, MP2, RA, and CAF

Any spaces in filenames will be deleted once the files are uploaded.

HLS media files can be ingested and played, but processing operations (such as screenshot capturing, parsing, transcoding, and review) on HLS source files are not supported.

Prerequisites

To categorize media files, create categories by referring to Category Settings.
To keep yourself informed of the upload progress, configure event notifications by referring to Overview.
To transcode these files, create a transcoding template by referring to Transcoding Settings.
To process these files using a workflow, create a workflow by referring to Workflow Settings.