1. API Description

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

This API is used to clip an HLS video by time period and then generate a new HLS video which developers can share right away or store persistently.

VOD supports two types of clipping:

• Clipping for persistent storage: the video clip is saved as an independent video file with a FileId.
• Clipping for temporary sharing: the video clip is affiliated to the input file and has no FileId.

Notes:

• Clipping is based on the input M3U8 file that contains the list of TS segments, so the smallest clipping unit is one TS segment instead of in seconds or less.

Clipping for Persistent Storage

In this mode, a video clip is saved as an independent video file with a FileId, and its lifecycle is not subject to the input video. Even if the source video is deleted, the video clip still exists. Moreover, the video clip can be transcoded, published on WeChat, and processed in other ways.

Take the video of a two-hour long football match for example. The customer may only want to store the original two-hour video for two months to save costs, but want to store clipped highlights for a specified longer time and also to transcode and publish such highlights on WeChat. Clipping for persistent storage is suitable for this customer.

The advantage of clipping for persistent storage is that the video clip has a lifecycle independent of the input video and can be managed independently and stored persistently.

Clipping for Temporary Sharing

The video clip (an M3U8 file) shares the same TS segments with the input video instead of being an independent video. It only has a playback URL but has no FileId, and its validity period is the same as that of the input video. Once the input video is deleted, the video clip cannot be played back.

As the video clip is not an independent video, it will not be managed as a VOD media asset. For example, it will not be counted in the total videos displayed on the VOD console, and also cannot be transcoded or published on WeChat.

Clipping for temporary sharing is lightweight and incurs no additional storage fees. However, the video clip has the same lifecycle as the source recording video and cannot be transcoded or processed in other ways.

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 Clipping an HLS video (with a positive time offset)

This example shows you how to clip a video from the 2nd to the 10th second.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=SimpleHlsClip
&Url=http://xxxxx.vod2.myqcloud.com/xxxxx/aaaaaa/hhh.m3u8
&StartTimeOffset=2
&EndTimeOffset=10
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "Url": "http://xxxxx.vod2.myqcloud.com/xxxxx/aaaaaa/10_50.m3u8",
    "FileId": "",
    "MetaData": {
      "Size": 0,
      "Container": "hls",
      "Bitrate": 622014,
      "Height": 480,
      "Width": 640,
      "Duration": 48,
      "Rotate": 0,
      "VideoStreamSet": [
        {
          "Bitrate": 592385,
          "Height": 480,
          "Width": 640,
          "Codec": "h264",
          "Fps": 25
        }
      ],
      "AudioStreamSet": [
        {
          "Bitrate": 29629,
          "SamplingRate": 44100,
          "Codec": "aac"
        }
      ],
      "VideoDuration": 0,
      "AudioDuration": 0
    },
    "RequestId": "12ae8d8e-dce3-4151-9d4b-5594145287e1"
  }
}

Example2 Clipping an HLS video (with a negative time offset)

This example shows you how to clip a video from the 2nd second to the 10th second from the end.

Input Example

https://vod.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=SimpleHlsClip
&Url=http://xxxxx.vod2.myqcloud.com/xxxxx/aaaaaa/hhhh.m3u8
&StartTimeOffset=2.0
&EndTimeOffset=10.0
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "Url": "http://xxxxx.vod2.myqcloud.com/xxxxx/aaaaaa/10_50.m3u8",
    "FileId": "",
    "MetaData": {
      "Size": 0,
      "Container": "hls",
      "Bitrate": 622014,
      "Height": 480,
      "Width": 640,
      "Duration": 48,
      "Rotate": 0,
      "VideoStreamSet": [
        {
          "Bitrate": 592385,
          "Height": 480,
          "Width": 640,
          "Codec": "h264",
          "Fps": 25
        }
      ],
      "AudioStreamSet": [
        {
          "Bitrate": 29629,
          "SamplingRate": 44100,
          "Codec": "aac"
        }
      ],
      "VideoDuration": 0,
      "AudioDuration": 0
    },
    "RequestId": "12ae8d8e-dce3-4151-9d4b-5594145287e1"
  }
}

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
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for C++

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.