Live to VOD

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The Live to VOD feature records live streams as video-on-demand (VOD) videos. It supports operations such as media asset management, ApsaraVideo Media Processing, online editing, and content delivery network (CDN) acceleration. ApsaraVideo Media Processing includes transcoding, content moderation, and AI processing, such as intelligent thumbnail generation. This topic provides examples of API calls that demonstrate how to use the ApsaraVideo VOD software development kit (SDK) for Java to query a list of VOD videos generated from live stream recordings.

Usage notes

Initialize a client

Before you use the SDK, initialize a client. For more information, see Initialization.

Query live-to-VOD videos

You can call the ListLiveRecordVideo operation to query live-to-VOD videos.

You can call the ListLiveRecordVideo operation in the Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI Portal.

References

  • Configure Live to VOD: This topic describes the Live to VOD feature of ApsaraVideo VOD, including its architecture, benefits, and configuration methods.

  • How to use Live to VOD with other features: This topic describes three typical scenarios for using Live to VOD. The first scenario is live recording with automatic transcoding and CDN acceleration. The second is live recording with storage in ApsaraVideo VOD, manual transcoding, and CDN acceleration. The third is live recording with automatic merging of videos from multiple epochs.

  • Live to VOD management: This topic provides complete SDK sample code for the ListLiveRecordVideo operation.