### 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.