MK.IO - MediaKind

Live

Input
Protocol: Secure reliable transport (SRT), RTMP, RTMPS
Codec: MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC – MPEG-1 LII, AAC, HEAAC v1 and v2
Data rate: SD / HD up to 20 Mbps, UHD up to 80 Mbps

Processing
Passthrough or transcoding

Video encoding
Codec: H.264, HEVC
Resolution: Progressive, from QCIF to UHD, up to 60 fps
Data rate: From 100 kbps to 60 Mbps
HDR: Passthrough and conversions. HDR10, HLG10, PQ10. Dolby Vision 8.1 & 5.0
Rate control: CBR, VBR, Constant Video Quality (CVQ)

Metadata
Subtitles passthrough and conversion: EIA 608/708 Closed Caption, SCTE-20, DVB Teletext, DVB Subtitles, SCTE-27, ARIB B24
Ad insertion: EBIF / EISS / AIT SCTE-35 passthrough
Nielsen: Watermark extraction for multi-screen devices

Recording
Time-shift: up to 2 hours
Automatic instant Live-to-file recording
Multiview
Accessible on all devices

VOD

Ingest
Ingest directly from Azure File Storage, S3 storage or HTTP
File formats: MP4, MPEG2-PS, MPEG2-TS, Matroska MKV, QuickTime, MXF, Flash (with H.264 and AAC codecs), 3GP, Matroska WebM, ISMV, AVI, Window Media Format
Input video codecs: MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC, Sony XAVC / XAVC S, DVCPro SD and HD, Digital video DV and HDV, JPEG 2000, Apple ProRes 422 (including LT and HQ), Apple ProRes 4444 (including XQ), Sony XAVC, Sony XDCAM IMX, Sony XDCAM (including HD and EX), V210 Video Picture Encoding, MPEG-1, VC-1, VP8, VP9, MJPEG, AV1, Microsoft MPEG4v1, v2 and v3, H263, Avid DNxHD and DNxHR
Input audio codecs: AAC (including AAC-LC, AAC-HE, and AAC-HEv2 1, up to 5.1), MPEG Layer 2, MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3), PCM, LPCM, DPCM and ADPCM, AES (SMPET331M and 302M, AES3-2003), Dolby E (Passthrough), Dolby Digital (AC3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), DTS, Opus, Vorbis

Subtitles
Passthrough and conversion, EIA 608/708 closed caption, DVB Subtitles, DVB Teletext, SCTE-27, ARIB B.24, SRT.

Output
File format: MPEG-TS or MP4
MP4 progressive download, HLS, DASH streaming output

Thumbnail
Poster, thumbnails, sprites

Templates
Built-in preset or custom configuration

AI

Compression engine
AI-powered, adaptive video encoding

Transcription
Automatic creation of subtitles track. (For live and on-demand)

Translation
Automatic translation of subtitle tracks. (For live only)

Storage & delivery

Streaming
Unified delivery of Live 24/7, Live events, Live passthrough and VOD
HLS and DASH over CMAF. Using CMAF chunking for low latency live events
Customized delivery using time based or track-based filters
Built-in CDN support

Storage
Format: ATS or MP4
Private storage link

Subtitling
SMPTE-TT for DASH, WebVTT for HLS

Content protection
Using PlayReady, Widevine, FairPlay or ClearKey DRM with AES-128
Built-in key and license server or external CPIX compatible KMS
Token restriction
SWT or JWT token restriction
Supports Symmetric Key, RSA and X509 Certificate
Primary Key can be retrieved using OpenID Connect

Player

Web-based player
HTML5 video player SDK
DASH, HLS. Standard and Low-latency

Viewing metrics
Stream control
Token and DRM integration, playback restrictions

Monitoring & control

Control plane
Unified control plane for all media assets and environments
Fine-grained user access control with enterprise-grade RBAC
OIDC authentication integration for NIST-certified user management

Monitoring
Billing and usage metrics
Unified operational dashboards

Scheduling
Event scheduling interface
Customizable ingestion of customer guide / schedules

Deployment

Models
Cloud SaaS on AWS, Azure and GCP
Cloud Dedicated on public or private clouds
High availability
Multi region / multi zone
Geo-redundancy configurations defined in API

Storage
Cross-cloud storage support
Private network links to customer-owned storage accounts

Documentation
Public API. Detailed and complete documentation
Public support forums, attended by MediaKind engineering

  1. MPEG Extended HE-AAC audio software licensed from Fraunhofer IIS.