Encoding Tutorials

How to create an S3 Encoding Input or Output with the Bitmovin API

You can easily create and configure S3 buckets for use as Input and/or Output for your encoding needs. This tutorial focuses on the simplest mechanism to do so.

VP9 Presets

Quick overview about all available VP9 Preset Configurations that can be used as a default settings template to optimize your VP9 Codec Configurations for specific LIVE or VOD use-cases targeting for Quality, or Low Latency

H265 Presets

Quick overview about all available H265 Preset Configurations that can be used as a default settings template to optimize your H265 Codec Configurations for specific LIVE or VOD use-cases targeting for Quality, or Low Latency

How to use re-transfer to retry transfer errors of successful encoding jobs

Using the re-transfer feature, you can restart the transfer of a finished encoding to your storage without re-encoding the content. This will save costs as the processing is only done once, even if your storage can't be reached at times.

How to adapt automatically to different source files with stream conditions

With stream conditions, you can enhance your encoding scripts to make them work even when the source files are not all exactly the same. Whether they have different source resolutions, frame rates, audio layouts or other variations in their spec, your workflow can still generate the intended output

Create a Live Encoding from an SRT stream

The Bitmovin cloud encoding service is a powerful tool for live streaming, and our API makes it easy to implement. This tutorial concentrates on feeds contributed with the SRT protocol.

Create a Live Encoding from an RTMP stream

The Bitmovin cloud encoding service is a powerful tool for live streaming, and our API makes it easy to implement. This tutorial concentrates on feeds contributed with the RTMP protocol, which are the simplest to setup.

Get started with the Bitmovin API

As a developer the Bitmovin API will become the center of your video infrastructure universe, as it allows you to manage everything about your encodings, player, and analytics, as well as your Bitmovin account itself. In this tutorial we will guide to you through the first steps on how to communicat

How to create an S3 Role-Based Encoding Input or Output with the Bitmovin API

AWS versatile IAM Service provides many ways to control access to your AWS resources. One of these are IAM Roles which enable you to allow other AWS accounts to access certain resources in your account without the need to share Access/Secret Key Pairs.

Understanding the Bitmovin Encoding Object Model

This tutorial describes the various objects that make up a Bitmovin encoding, how they interrelate, and how they are created and manipulated through the APIs and SDKs. It will help you understand the necessary foundations to become an efficient Bitmovin video developer.