Videos in Cloud Video
With Cloud Video, you can upload videos to your channel for subsequent publication on external resources.
You can download videos in the following formats: MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, and MOV. You can download videos either one by one or several at a time.
Cloud Video limits the resolution of the videos you are publishing.
You can upload custom covers for your videos. The cover will appear in the Cloud Video interface and the player on the website hosting the video.
The following cover formats are supported: JPG, PNG, and GIF.
You can publish via a direct link or post to a website either single videos or videos grouped into playlists in desired order. For more information on publishing playlists, see Getting an embed code or link to a playlist.
Statuses
Video statuses
Uploading: Original video file is being uploaded to a Yandex Cloud storage.Processing: Original video file is being transcoded into several versions with different bitrates and resolutions. When viewing the video on client devices, the video player selects the best version for smooth playback at a given internet connection speed.Ready: Transcoding is complete. The video is ready for viewing.Error: Error uploading a file or transcoding a video. Check the stability of your internet connection, the integrity and format of the file and try again.
Publication statuses
Published: The video is published.Unpublished: The video is not published.
Video publishing parameters
You can change the following basic video playback settings when generating a direct link or website embed code:
- Default sound setting for video playback.
- Automatic start of playback when opened.
- Displaying video controls in the player.
With Cloud Video Player SDK for IFrame, you can specify additional video player management settings and video playback parameters for the HTML page, such as video size and looping, volume, etc.
Video viewing statistics
For each video, you can look up the viewing statistics and flexibly customize the statistics period.
The following viewing statistics are currently available:
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Number of views: Integer.
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Share of viewed content: Percentage ratio of average viewing time to video duration.
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Total viewing time: Total viewing time in hours and minutes.
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Average viewing time: Average viewing time in hours and minutes.
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Linear chart with distribution of the number of views per unit of time with the following discretization levels:
5 minutes1 hour1 day
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Pie chart with distribution of views by device OS type.
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Pie chart with distribution of views by device type.
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Heat map with data on video fragment views.
Each point on the heat map corresponds to a 30-second video fragment.
On the heat map, the fact of video fragment playback is counted as a view regardless of playback duration. For example, if you start a video and stop it right away, a view will be counted for the first fragment of the video.
Subtitles
Supported subtitle formats: SRT and VTT. The maximum subtitle file size is 500 MB. You can load several subtitle files in one or more languages for one video. View the list of supported languages in Cloud Video interface.