Overview

ApsaraVideo Media Processing (MPS) is a cloud service that is designed to transcode multimedia data. It provides a cost-effective, easy-to-use, elastic, and highly scalable method to convert audio and video files into formats that are suitable for playback on PCs, TVs, and mobile devices. MPS leverages the auto scaling feature of cloud computing services to provide transcoding services on demand. You no longer need to purchase, set up, manage transcoding software and hardware, and worry about configuration tuning and transcoding parameters. This maximizes resource usage.

Benefits

• Fast Transcoding You can deploy MPS in multiple regions around the world to allow dynamic scaling. This way, MPS can handle high concurrency easily and transcode media data quickly.
• Image Restoration Based on the state-of-the-art human vision model, MPS optimizes video encoding methods and can convert damaged videos into high-definition videos.
• Narrowband HD™ Narrowband HD™ and H.265 transcoding allow you to transcode videos with 20% to 30% less traffic costs.
• Various Features and Custom Templates Various features such as video transcoding, editing, and merging, snapshot capture, and watermarking are provided to meet diverse scenarios. Custom transcoding templates are supported. You can create custom transcoding parameters to meet your transcoding requirements.

Features

Media Transcoding

Supports all major formats, and includes professional customizable transcoding services such as NarrowBand HD, double-speed transcoding and video encryption. Audio and Video Transcoding

• Audio and Video Transcoding Mainstream media formats, H.264 and H.265 codecs, container format conversion, and subtitles are supported.
• Transcoding Templates Preset templates and custom templates are available to meet your business requirements.
• Workflows The MPS console is available for you to use. You can create a workflow in one minute. This allows automatic transcoding after media uploads.
• Watermarks Images and text watermarks can be overlaid on output videos to enhance product recognition.
• Editing and Merging You can specify the start time and duration to capture media clips and merge the media clips into a media file.
• Audio and Video Extraction You can use MPS to extract only audio or video images from a video file.
• Narrowband HD™ MPS adopts the industry-leading Narrowband HD™ transcoding technology to save your bandwidth costs by 20% to 30% without compromising the video quality.
• High-speed Transcoding MPS is ideal for transcoding videos longer than 30 minutes. You can split this type of video into parts and transcode the parts in parallel. This speeds up transcoding by 5-fold.
• Video Encryption Alibaba Cloud proprietary cryptography and HLS encryption based on the AES128 algorithm are supported. This protects your video content from illegal downloads. Video encryption is suitable for scenarios such as online education and paid viewing.

Video Snapshot

MPS allows you to capture images at specific time points from a video that is stored in Object Storage Service (OSS) and save the captured images as JPG files.

• Video Snapshot MPS allows you to capture images at specific time points from videos that are stored in OSS and save the captured images as JPG files. You can capture one or multiple snapshots at different time points, or capture snapshots at even intervals.
• Image Sprites Information about multiple snapshots can be queried in one request after an image sprite is generated from multiple snapshots. This reduces the number of requests and improves client performance.

Image Enhancement

MPS supports quality enhancement for video sources to improve video definition and playback smoothness. This provides an excellent viewing experience that is unique in the industry.

• Frame Rate Conversion For high-definition videos at or below 30 frames per second, MPS allows you to generate videos at higher frame rates, such as 60 frames per second or 120 frames per second, without compromising the video quality. The enhanced videos can be smoothly played on a 4K screen.
• Video Repair For over-compressed online videos, MPS allows you to remove the blurs and mosaics from videos to restore them to higher definitions.
• SD-to-HD Conversion For classic movies in standard definition, MPS allows you to remove film granules and compression noise and use super-resolution technologies to generate 720p or even 1080p HD videos.
• 2K-to-4K Conversion For 1080p movies, MPS allows you to generate high-quality 4K video sources by using the super-resolution technology. The technology has been proven to be effective by a large number of videos.

Video Editing

APIs for online editing are supported to lower the threshold of content production.

• APIs for Online Editing APIs such as APIs for splitting, merging, masking, production, and adding text banners for media files are provided. This allows you to quickly build an online video production platform. You can edit video, audio, image, and text files.