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