Operations for creating live jobs, listing live jobs, getting job details, and canceling live jobs. There are also operations for activating and deactivating SEP jobs, scheduling activation and deactivation of SEP jobs, and for inserting cuepoints or ID3 timed metadata.Notes:-Live outputs are VBR.-The average video bitrate should be around the target value, but there can be brief periods when the measured video bitrate exceeds that target.
Brightcove Live Jobs API is one of 53 APIs that Brightcove publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Live Jobs. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes
12 operations
across 10 paths,
and defines 44 schemas.
It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.bcovlive.io/v1.
12 operations10 paths44 schemas1 DELETE2 GET5 POST4 PUT
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://cms.api.brightcove.com/v1
Resource Areas
1
Paths & Operations 12
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 5 POST, 4 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Live Jobs 12
Operations for creating live jobs, listing live jobs, getting job details, and canceling live jobs. There are also operations for activating and deactivating SEP jobs, scheduling…
The contract defines 44 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are CreateLiveJobRequestBody (35 properties), Job.outputMediaFiles (32 properties), CreateLiveJobRequestBody.outputs (29 properties), Job.inputMediaFile (23 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Video Cloud customers have the option to create a video to use for the live stream. The videocloud object in the job settings is used for this purpose. If you…
5 properties1 required
CreateLiveJobRequestBody.addCdns.tokenAuth
object
Token authentication details Note: If you don't have your secret key for Akamai, or need to have a new one, contact your Customer Success Manager or Brightcove…
4 properties3 required
Job.inputMediaFile
object
Object containing properties for the input media file. Note that some fields under the media file object are null. These fields were ported from the old Zencod…
23 properties
CuePoint
object
4 properties4 required
ManualAdCuePointInsertionResponse
object
2 properties2 required
CreateVodClipbody.outputs.videocloud.video
object
'An object containing inputs for Video Cloud video object creation - see the [CMS API Reference](https://apis.support.brightcove.com/cms/references/reference.h…
12 properties1 required
AddAdMetadatabody
object
- A set of key/value pairs for ad requests.
1 property
LiveJob
object
15 properties14 required
CreateVodClipbody.outputs.videocloud.video.geo
object
map of geo-filtering properties
3 properties3 required
DeactivateSepStreamResponse
object
1 property1 required
InsertId3TimedMetadatabody
object
1 property1 required
CreateLiveJobRequestBody.videocloud.video
object
'An object containing inputs for Video Cloud video object creation - see the [CMS API Reference](https://apis.support.brightcove.com/cms/references/reference.h…
12 properties1 required
Job.stream.location
object
Object representing the location of the stream
3 properties
CreatePlaybackTokenRequestBody
object
Create Playback Token Request Body
4 properties
ActivateSepStreamResponse
object
1 property1 required
InsertId3TimedMetadatabody.id3Tag
object
An object containing variables for the ID3 timed metadata
3 properties2 required
Outputs
object
4 properties4 required
CreateLiveJob.outputs.videocloud
object
An object containing inputs for Video Cloud ingestion
An object containing inputs for Video Cloud video ingestion - see the [Dynamic Ingest Reference](https://apis.support.brightcove.com/dynamic-ingest/references/…
3 properties
playback_added_cdns
object
3 properties3 required
RTMPout
object
RTMP output object
6 properties
Job.stream.destination
object
Object representing the destination of the stream
3 properties
CreateLiveJobRequestBody.encryption
object
Encryption to apply to the stream.
8 properties2 required
Job
object
22 properties9 required
Specification
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