Help Center/ Video On Demand/ User Guide/ Audio/Video Upload/ Overview
Updated on 2025-03-19 GMT+08:00
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Overview

Functions

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

Formats of audio/video files that can be uploaded:
  • Video: MP4, TS, MOV, MXF, MPG, FLV, WMV, AVI, M4V, F4V, MPEG, 3GP, ASF, MKV, WebM, M3U8, VOB, RM, and MTS. An M3U8 file can be uploaded only by pulling it from its URL.
  • Audio: MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC, AC3, MMF, AMR, M4A, M4R, WV, and MP2

If the name of the file to be uploaded contains spaces, the spaces will be deleted after the file is uploaded.

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.
Parent topic: Audio/Video Upload