Video Object

A video is not only a video file which can be displayed by a video player, it is also a set of properties (and meta-datas) such as title, description, tags, ... which are helping to manage it.

42videobricks provides a structured video object to manage video properties:

{
    "id": "K01iUXB4MlB4M1CCCWHNORw==",
    "title": "Video title",
    "description": "My video description",
    "duration": 600,
    "status": "AVAILABLE",
    "ctime": 1688113015,
    "mtime": 1688139012,
    "assets": {
        "thumbnail": "https://media-delivery-cdn.alchimie-services.net/image/v1/mediadb-product-filetype/1136025/COVER.jpg",
        "player": "https://stream.42videobricks.com/K01iUXB4MlB4M1VFWHNORw==/player",
        "stream": "https://stream.42videobricks.com/K01iUXB4MlB4M1VFWHNORw==/stream",
        "iframe": "<iframe src=\"//stream.42videobricks.com/K01iUXB4MlB4M1VFWHNORw==/player\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\"></iframe>"
    },
    "public": true,
    "links":[]
}

Video object properties:

• id: video unique id
• title: video title
• description: video description
• status: video status (only "AVAILABLE" video can be played). More about video status
• duration: video length in second
• ctime: video object creation date (timestamp)
• mtime: last video object modification
• public: video privacy. More about video privacy
• assets: links (url)
  • thumbnail: url to the video thumbnail image
  • player: url to a web page with the video embedded in our player, ready to play (private video need an authentication token)
  • stream: url to the video stream to integrate in your own video player (private video need an authentication token)
  • iframe: url to an iframe that allow you to embedded in hour web page our video player ready to play (private video need an authentication token)

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Once the video object is created, the video file can be uploaded and attached to it.