Powerful Quality Control in the Cloud
QC Service Description
Quality Control as a Service in the cloud is finally here. No need to purchase and manage expensive on premise QC infrastructure. Using Encoding.com’s API, you can automate your QC job management and reporting needs via our highly scalable, extremely efficient cloud service. Choose to run any number of our 40+ individual QC validations at the time of transcoding and packaging or use as a standalone QC service on assets that are already transcoded and packaged.
All QC checks requested are performed on the same compute node as transcoding and packaging to save time, friction and money when compared to manual transfers of media to a separate QC system. Generate complete QC reports in the time it takes to transfer content to your destination. In other words, no increase in total job time.
QC Feature Overview
- General Validations available including output size, duration, bitrate and captions and file size.
- Video Validations available including Frame rates, codecs, aspect ratio, level. etc.
- Audio Validations available including Bitrate, Codec, Channels, Channel layout etc.
- Manifest Validations available including version numbers, Declarations, Encryption, Discontinuity tags etc.
- API web service for complete integration into your CMS/MAM/DAM platforms for production and broadcast workflows.
- Future-proof your QC workflow as we continually add new validations each quarter.
Formats
HLS
DASH
MP4
*Standalone (without transcoding) QC checks available.
See QC API Docs for more details : https://api.encoding.com/#qc
Pricing
Contact us for more information on pricing.Complete Available Tests
| Tests Available | API Param Name | Formats Available |
|---|---|---|
| General Validation Tests | ||
| Duration | qc_duration | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| File size | qc_file_size | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Bitrate | qc_bitrate | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Bitrate mode | qc_bitrate_mode | advanced_hls, mp4 |
| Closed Captions(608/708) are present and maintained | qc_captions_presented | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Video Validation Tests | ||
| Video format(codec) | qc_video_codec | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Video Bitrate | qc_video_bitrate | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Frame rate | qc_frame_rate | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Video Duration | qc_video_duration | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Video codec profile | qc_video_codec_profile | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Video level | qc_video_level | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Frame size | qc_frame_size | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Aspect ratio | qc_aspect_ratio | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Video streams number | qc_video_streams_number | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Validate DTS | qc_validate_dts | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Validate PTS | qc_validate_pts | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| PCR interval is maintained | qc_pcr_interval | advanced_hls |
| PID interval is maintained | qc_pid_interval | advanced_hls |
| Check B-Frames Present | qc_b_frames_present | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Check B-Frames DTS grow | qc_bframe_dts_grow | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| IDR interval is maintained | qc_idr_interval | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Each segment starts with IDR | qc_segments_start_with_idr | advanced_hls, advanced_dash |
| No short segments | qc_short_segment | advanced_hls |
| Audio Validation Tests | ||
| Audio Codec | qc_audio_codec | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Audio Bitrate | qc_audio_bitrate | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Audio Duration | qc_audio_duration | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Audio bit depth | qc_audio_bit_depth | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Audio sample rate | qc_audio_sample_rate | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Audio channels | qc_audio_channels | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Audio channel layout | qc_audio_channel_layout | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Audio streams number | qc_audio_streams_number | advanced_hls, mp4, advanced_dash |
| Manifest Validation Tests | ||
| Master manifest has proper bitrate | qc_bitrate_declaration | advanced_hls, advanced_dash |
| Master manifest has proper codec | qc_codec_declaration | advanced_hls, advanced_dash |
| Discontinuity tags are proper placement | qc_discontinuity_tags | advanced_hls |
| Proper DRM URI | qc_drm_uri | advanced_hls, advanced_dash |
| HLS version number | qc_hls_version_number | advanced_hls |
| CUE-OUT:0 proper placement | qc_match_breakpoints | advanced_hls |
| Check Sample AES Proper encryption | qc_proper_sample_aes_encryption_declared | advanced_hls |
| Target segment duration | qc_target_segment_duration | advanced_hls |
| Declared segment duration is correct | qc_validate_segment_duration | advanced_hls, advanced_dash |