System Architecture

Product Features

Audio/video upload

You can upload files from your local file system or via URLs or APIs. VOD supports checkpoint restart, large file upload, and multi-replica backup. For details, please see Media Upload Overview.
Supported files formats for upload include:

• Video: WMV, RM, MOV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, FLV, AVI, RMVB, TS, ASF, MPG, WEBM, MKV, M3U8, WM, ASX, RAM, MPE, VOB, DAT, MP4V, M4V, F4V, MXF, QT, and OGG
• Audio: MP3, M4A, FLAC, OGG, WAV, RA, AAC, and AMR
• Thumbnail: JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, AI, CDR, EPS, and TIF

Audio/video storage

VOD supports data storage with redundancy across architectures and devices. It provides 99.9% durability of objects, outperforming traditional architectures. It also supports multiple storage classes to meet your needs.

• Storage classes: STANDARD, STANDARD_IA, ARCHIVE, and DEEP ARCHIVE.
• Lower storage costs: custom rule-based storage policies, auto deletion of expired media files, and real-time image processing.

Media asset management

You can manage media files through the VOD console or APIs by performing operations like adding categories and labels. You can export all information of such files.

• Quick edit of media file information
• Media file search with multiple filters
• Media file processing, transcoding, watermarking, thumbnail setting, and screencapture
• Exporting media file information in CSV or JSON format
• Sharing media files via WeChat QR code
• Setting multiple levels of categories and labels for videos
• Managing media files by table, online preview, and download
• Supporting multiple storage classes
• Setting hotlink protection URL with allowlist/blocklist