What recording capabilities does Vonage Video API offer?
Question
What recording capabilities does Vonage Video API offer? How do I calculate pricing?
Applies To
- Recording
- Archiving
- Video API
Answer
Composed Archives
- Single MP4 file composed of all streams and it is ideal for instant playback
- Composition occurs while the session is in progress and composed file is available immediately after session is complete
- Layout of the composed archive can be customized, adjusting the visual arrangement of streams and which streams are displayed
- Composed archiving is used by the majority of our customers
- Composed archives can be encrypted to provide the highest level of security
Individual Stream Archives
- ZIP container file with multiple individual media files for each stream, and a JSON metadata file for video synchronization
- Stream containers are either of type .webm, or .mkv
- Intended for use with a post-processing tool, and is useful for companies with advanced cognitive services to tackle use-cases such as - Sentiment analysis, audio transcription and voice/object recognition
Pricing
Pricing for recording is dependent upon the duration of the recorded content, and not on the number of participants.
- Individual stream archives - $0.0125 per minute of recorded content
- SD Composed archives - $0.025 per minute of recorded content
- HD composed archives - $0.035 per minute of recorded content
Use Case | How to calculate usage? | Example |
HD & composed archives | Number of composed archived minutes = duration of the session that was archived | Record a 15-minute session with 2 participants using composed archiving: Composed archiving minutes billed will be 15 minutes |
Individual stream archives | Number of individual stream archived minutes = duration of the session that was archived |
Record a 15-minute session with 5 participants using individual stream archiving: Individual stream archiving minutes billed will be 15 minutes |
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