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 a transcoding task

This example shows you how to initiate a task to transcode a video (fileId: 5285485487985271487) to outputs in three formats by using three transcoding templates (ID: 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
&<Public request parameters>

Output Example

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

Example2 Initiating a transcoding task with watermarked outputs

This example shows you how to initiate a task to transcode a video (fileId: 5285485487985271487) to outputs in three specifications by using three transcoding templates (ID: 20, 30, and 40), and to watermark all outputs by using a watermark template (ID: 10).

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
&<Public request parameters>

Output Example

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

Example3 Initiating a transcoding and sampled screenshot task

This example shows you how to initiate a task to transcode a video (fileId: 5285485487985271487) to outputs in three specifications by using three transcoding templates (ID: 20, 30, and 40), and to screencapture the video by using a sampled screenshot 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
&<Public request parameters>

Output Example

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

Example4 Initiating an intelligent content audit task

This example shows you how to initiate an intelligent content audit task to detect porn, politically sensitive, and terrorism information for a video (fileId: 5285485487985271487) by using a content analysis template (ID: 10).

Input Example

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

Output Example

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

Example5 Initiating an intelligent content analysis task

This example shows you how to initiate a content analysis task to intelligently generate category, tags, and cover images for a video (fileId: 5285485487985271487) by using a content analysis template (ID: 10).

Input Example

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

Output Example

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

Example6 Initiating an intelligent content recognition task

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

Input Example

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

Output Example

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

5. Developer Resources

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Python
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Java
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for PHP
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Go
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for NodeJS
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for .NET

Command Line Interface

• Tencent Cloud CLI 3.0

6. Error Code

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