What's New

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Multi-snapshot capturing

By default, the system operates in the single-snapshot mode. Only the most recent snapshot task and its results are retained for a video. To retain all snapshot tasks and their snapshot results, you need to submit a service ticket to enable the multi-snapshot support.

Commercial use

Snapshot Capturing

Snapshot Capturing APIs

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Task Center

In the Task Center, you can view the list of transcoding tasks from the past seven days and query their details. The Task Center will continue to expand its capabilities and support the viewing of more types of tasks.

Commercial use

Task Center

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Updated media moderation

The Content Moderation service APIs have been upgraded, and the VOD audio moderation feature has been updated accordingly. All other capabilities (video moderation and VOD's own APIs) remain unchanged.

Commercial use

Media Moderation

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Support for SCM certificates in HTTPS configuration

VOD now supports SCM certificates. After granting SCM authorization, you can directly retrieve your SCM certificate content when configuring the certificate on VOD.

Commercial use

SCM Authorization

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Bucket authorization

You can authorize VOD to access media resources stored in your OBS buckets.

Commercial use

Bucket Authorization

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Updated VOD permissions management

If you enabled VOD before December 30, 2024, you may continue managing VOD permissions using both roles and policies. Beyond that date, you may switch to the policy-only approach for permissions management.

Commercial use

Creating a User and Assigning VOD Permissions

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Pseudo-streaming

Pseudo-streaming leverages VOD's playback controls to deliver recorded files as a livestream. By preparing your media file on VOD and scheduling a start time for the file, you can simulate a live experience while minimizing the risks and costs associated with real-time streaming.

Commercial use

Pseudo-Streaming

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Manual and intelligent cold storage

• You can transition media assets to cold storage in batches.

  You can transition media assets to Infrequent Access or Archive storage in batches using their IDs.

• You can also use policies to implement intelligent cold storage.

  You can create and enable an intelligent policy to automate these transitions for media assets based on their upload time or storage duration, category, and current storage class.

Commercial use

Cold Storage of Media Assets

Modifying the Cold Storage Scope of a Media Asset

Querying Cold Storage Settings of a Media Asset

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Tenant Settings

The cold storage scope can be managed at the tenant level. You can choose to transition source files only to cold storage or include both source and transcoded media files.

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Tenant Settings

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IPv6 support

Enabling IPv6 allows compatible clients to access VOD over IPv6.

Commercial use

Configuring IPv6 Access

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VOD has been interconnected with Cloud Eye.

VOD has been interconnected with Cloud Eye. You can use the Cloud Eye console or APIs to view monitoring metric details and alarm details of VOD domain names in real time.

Commercial use

Cloud Eye

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Data analysis

The data analysis function is added to the VOD service to provide the following capabilities:

• Distribution statistics: Data such as the traffic, bandwidth, and traffic hit ratio on the CDN side can be queried.

• Playback statistics: You can query the number of playback times and ranking (by playback times) of media files by domain name.

Commercial use

Distribution Statistics

Playback Statistics

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Rollout of the VOD server SDK

Huawei Cloud provides SDK in Java, Python, Go, Node.js, .NET, and PHP for developers. The server SDK can be integrated to call VOD APIs and quickly use the VOD service.

Commercial use

Server SDK Reference

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Rollout of new VOD APIs to support HLS VTT subtitle management

HLS VTT subtitles can be managed by calling APIs.

Commercial use

Subtitle Management API

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Commercial use of VOD

VOD is a one-stop media service that integrates video upload, automatic transcoding, media resource management, distribution acceleration, and video playback. It is widely used in scenarios such as online education, portal websites, socialization, and live video replay. VOD provides a web-based management console, APIs, and software development kits (SDKs) for you to use and manage VOD resources.

Commercial use

What Is VOD?