The bitcodin API for Python is a seamless integration with the bitmovin cloud transcoding system. It enables the generation of MPEG-DASH and HLS content in just some minutes.
sudo pip install bitcodin
or directly from git:
sudo pip install git+https://github.com/bitmovin/bitcodin-python.git
Before you can start using the api you need to set your API key.
Your API key can be found in the settings of your bitmovin user account, as shown in the figure below.
An example how you can set the bitcodin API is shown in the following:
import bitcodin
bitcodin.api_key = 'yourapikey'NOTE: The property names of the results returned from the api functions (e.g.: create_job()) are the same as defined in the api documentation, but are converted from camel case to snake case.
For example:
encoding_profile.encodingProfileId will be converted to encoding_profile.encoding_profile_id
The following example demonstrates how to create a simple transcoding job:
import bitcodin
bitcodin.api_key = 'yourapikey'
input_obj = bitcodin.Input(url='http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/graphics/blender/demo/movies/Sintel.2010.720p.mkv')
input_result = bitcodin.create_input(input_obj)
video_configs = list()
video_config1 = bitcodin.VideoStreamConfig(default_stream_id=0, bitrate=4800000, profile='Main',
preset='premium', height=1080, width=1920)
video_config2 = bitcodin.VideoStreamConfig(default_stream_id=0, bitrate=2400000, profile='Main',
preset='premium', height=720, width=1280)
video_config3 = bitcodin.VideoStreamConfig(default_stream_id=0, bitrate=1200000, profile='Main',
preset='premium', height=480, width=854)
video_configs.append(video_config1)
video_configs.append(video_config2)
video_configs.append(video_config3)
audio_configs = list()
audio_config = bitcodin.AudioStreamConfig(default_stream_id=0, bitrate=192000)
audio_configs.append(audio_config)
encoding_profile = bitcodin.EncodingProfile('API Test Profile', video_configs, audio_configs)
encoding_profile_result = bitcodin.create_encoding_profile(encoding_profile)
manifests = ['mpd', 'm3u8']
job = bitcodin.Job(input_result.input_id, encoding_profile_result.encoding_profile_id, manifests)
job_result = bitcodin.create_job(job)