Media Content Review

Huawei Cloud VOD provides the content review function to detect and filter out pornographic, terrorism-related, and politically sensitive information in media files. In doing so, inappropriate media files can be removed in a timely manner to avoid or reduce the adverse impact.

Notes

This function is not available in the CN East-Shanghai2 region.

Review Process

VOD provides two review methods, review after upload and review before upload. Review after upload is available on the VOD console. It means, you upload audio and video and then review the content. If you want to use review before upload, call a VOD API.

Figure 1 Review process
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Intelligent review: The review module identifies pornographic, terrorism-related, and politically sensitive content in texts, thumbnails, and snapshots. By default, this function is disabled.
Manual review: In review details, re-check suspected non-compliant media. If you confirm that the problem exists, block the media. Otherwise, approve it.
Block: After you block a media file, its status changes to Unpublished. Media in the Unpublished state can only be previewed on the console and cannot be downloaded or played. The playback URL referenced by Internet is inaccessible.

Prerequisites

By default, a system template is used for review. If you need to use a custom template, create a review template and set it as the default template.

Video Content Review

Intelligent review checks the thumbnail, title, description, and images of a video.

Log in to the VOD console.
In the navigation pane, choose Review Management > Content Moderation.
Select a video and click Review. The system starts reviewing the video based on its configured default review template. You can edit the review template on the Review Settings page.
If the video status changed to Approved, Pending review, or Rejected, intelligent review is complete.
Determine whether to start manual review.
You can start manual review in either of the following ways:
- Click on the left of the video. A maximum of 10 video snapshots are displayed. The system marks non-compliant snapshots. You can re-check the marked snapshots.
- If snapshots are just part of a video and you need to re-check the whole video, click View Details.
  On the displayed page, snapshots containing pornographic, terrorism-related, or politically sensitive content are marked and texts containing such content are highlighted red. In the preview area, you can play the video for stricter review.
Go back to the audio and video list and select multiple video files to approve or block them in batches.

Audio Content Review

Intelligent review checks the thumbnail, title, and description of an audio file.

Log in to the VOD console.
In the navigation pane, choose Review Management > Content Moderation.
Select an audio file and click Review. The system starts reviewing the audio based on its configured default review template. You can edit the review template on the Review Settings page.
If the audio status changed to Approved, Pending review, or Rejected, intelligent review is complete.
Click View Details to view review details.
On the displayed page, the thumbnail containing pornographic, terrorism-related, or politically sensitive content is marked and texts containing such content are highlighted red. You can block or approve the audio based on your re-check results.
Go back to the audio and video list and select multiple audio files to approve or block them in batches.