1. API Description

Domain name for API request: vod.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to initiate a processing task for an audio/video media file in VOD, including:

1. Video transcoding (with watermark);
2. Animated image generating;
3. Time point screencapturing;
4. Sampled screencapturing;
5. Image sprite generating;
6. Cover generating by screencapturing;
7. Adaptive bitrate streaming (with encryption);
8. Intelligent content audit (detection of porn, terrorism, and politically sensitive information);
9. Intelligent content analysis (tag, category, cover, and frame-specific tag);
10. Intelligent content recognition (opening and closing credits, face, full text, text keyword, full speech, speech keyword, and object).

A maximum of 100 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

3. Output Parameters

4. Example

Example1 Initiating an intelligent content analysis task

This example shows you how to initiate a content analysis task (including intelligently generating category, tag, and cover) for the video with fileId of 5285485487985271487 by using content analysis template ID 10.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=ProcessMedia
&FileId=5285485487985271487
&AiAnalysisTask.Definition=10
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "6ca31e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc700064ef3",
    "TaskId": "125xxx65-procedurev2-bffb15f07586237bcecodb01fac7kdikk"
  }
}

Example2 Initiating a transcoding task

This example shows you how to initiate a transcoding task for the video with the fileId of 5285485487985271487 to output in three specifications with transcoding template IDs 20, 30, and 40.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=ProcessMedia
&FileId=5285485487985271487
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.0.Definition=20
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.1.Definition=30
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.2.Definition=40
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "6ca31e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc700064ef3",
    "TaskId": "125xxx65-procedurev2-bffb15f07530b57bc1aabb01fac74bca"
  }
}

Example3 Initiating an intelligent content recognition task

This example shows you how to initiate a content recognition task (including face recognition) for the video with fileId of 5285485487985271487 by using content recognition template ID 10.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=ProcessMedia
&FileId=5285485487985271487
&AiRecognitionTask.Definition=10
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "6ca31e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc70006fje1",
    "TaskId": "125xxx65-procedurev2-bffb15f07586237bcecodb01fac7kdabc"
  }
}

Example4 Initiating a transcoding and sampled screencapturing task

This example shows you how to initiate a transcoding task for the video with the fileId of 5285485487985271487 to output in three specifications with transcoding template IDs 20, 30, and 40, and screencapture the video with sampled screencapturing template ID 10.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=ProcessMedia
&FileId=5285485487985271487
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.0.Definition=20
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.1.Definition=30
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.2.Definition=40
&MediaProcessTask.SampleSnapshotTaskSet.0.Definition=10
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "6ca31e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc700064ef3",
    "TaskId": "125xxx65-procedurev2-bffb15f07530b57bc1aabb01fac74bca"
  }
}

Example5 Initiating a transcoding task with watermark

This example shows you how to initiate a transcoding task for the video with the fileId of 5285485487985271487 to output in three specifications with transcoding template IDs 20, 30, and 40. All the output videos are watermarked with the watermarking template ID 15780.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=ProcessMedia
&FileId=5285485487985271487
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.0.Definition=20
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.0.WatermarkSet.0.Definition=15780
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.1.Definition=30
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.1.WatermarkSet.0.Definition=15780
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.2.Definition=40
&MediaProcessTask.TranscodeTaskSet.2.WatermarkSet.0.Definition=15780
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "6ca31e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc700064ef3",
    "TaskId": "125xxx65-procedurev2-bffb15f07530b57bc1aabb01fac74bca"
  }
}

Example6 Initiating an intelligent content audit task

This example shows you how to initiate an intelligent content audit task (including detection of porn, politically sensitive, and terrorism information) for the video with fileId of 5285485487985271487 by using content audit template ID 10.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=ProcessMedia
&FileId=5285485487985271487
&AiContentReviewTask.Definition=10
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "6ca31e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc700064ef3",
    "TaskId": "125xxx65-procedurev2-bffb15f07530b57bc1aabb01fac74bca"
  }
}

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Command Line Interface

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6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.