Compatibility
Supported Video Formats
LightFlow supports a wide range of video/audio codecs and media containers:
| Containers | 3g2, 3gp, aac (dts), asf, avi, dif, dv, f4v, flv, m4a, m4v, mkv, mj2, mov, mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpegts, mpg, mxf, ogg, ps, ts, webm, wmv |
| Video codecs | DiVX, DV, DV25, DV50, DVCPro 50, H.263, H.264, H.265 (HEVC), IMX 30, ProRes, Motion-JPEG, MPEG HDV 1080i, MPEG V1 Layer 2, MPEG2 V2 (m2v1), MPEG4 Part 2, MPEG XDCAM HD422, VP8, VP9, WMV |
| Audio codecs | AAC, HE-AAC, mp3 (MPEG V1 Layer 2 & 3), PCM, WMA2, WMV (pro) |
Supported Input/Output Storage
LightFlow supports a variety of input and output storage types. If you don't see your storage solution here, please contact Haivision Support for assistance.
Input & Output
To create a storage location as source/destination of videos for LightFlow, send a POST request to the /inputs-outputs endpoint. The response will include the unique identifier of the input/output storage location, which can be later selected as input (InputId) and/or output (OutputId) when posting a video. Click on the links above for guides to configure specific storage types.
Supported Encoders
The built-in LightFlow UltraFast Encoder segments the source video into chunks fed to multiple encoder instances. Alternatively, the following 3rd party encoders are supported:
To add your encoder to your LightFlow API workflow, send a POST request to the /encoders endpoint. The response will include the unique identifier of the encoder, which can be later selected as encoder when posting a video. Please contact contact Haivision Support if you wish to have your current encoder added to LightFlow.