OpenText Video Services
Features and Benefits
Learn more about the features and benefits of Video Services:
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| OpenText Product Integrations | The Video Services REST API is used to extend OpenText Content Web Services and products as a bundled solution to support robust video management and delivery features both inside and outside the firewall. Examples of OpenText software that Video Services can be natively deployed with include: |
| Administrative Console | Video Services includes a Web console that provides a single administrative interface a customer can use to:
Through the administrative console, users are able to edit video metadata, change thumbnail images and transcode video to various formats. |
| Web API | Video Services provides a comprehensive REST API which means that this Web API is easily usable by any Web application, running on virtually any platform or language. More than 40 API interfaces are available to expose most aspects of video management including ingest, query operations, management operations and transcoding operations. |
| Reporting | In addition to live user behavior analytics displayed in heatmaps, Video Services provides more than 20 standard reports out of the box, including reports on the segments that viewers are sharing (vTags) and the reports can be provided in various formats including .pdf, .html,.xls, and .csv. The reporting capabilities can also be customized to include additional reports when necessary. |
| Video Player | Video Services includes an out-of-the-box Flash player that provides seamless integration into existing Web sites. The player provides standard play out functionality with seek ahead and behind functionality, and also includes the ability to share video segments with others through the use of vTags, utilizes the texture strip to find the relevant parts of the video and provides an embed code for easy re-use and replay on any Web site. The robust Flash player can also be customized to create a branded player look, feel and design, and to present roll and overlay advertising. OpenText Video Services also supports delivery through HTML5 and device specific streaming technologies to devices that do not support Flash. |
| Transcode | Video Services enables the conversion of a wide array of source digital formats into many popular video output formats including:
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