MK.IO

The ultimate cloud-native video platform.

MK.IO

Live

Input

Protocol: Secure reliable transport (SRT), RTMP, RTMPS

Codec: MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC – MPEG-1 LII, AAC, HEAAC v1 and v2

Data rate: SD / HD up to 20 Mbps, UHD up to 80 Mbps

Processing

Passthrough or transcoding

Video encoding

Codec: H.264, HEVC

Resolution: Progressive, from QCIF to UHD, up to 60 fps

Data rate: From 100 kbps to 60 Mbps

HDR: Passthrough and conversions. HDR10, HLG10, PQ10. Dolby Vision 8.1 & 5.0

Rate control: CBR, VBR, Constant Video Quality (CVQ)

Recording

Time-shift: up to 2 hours

Automatic instant Live-to-file recording

Multiview

Accessible on all devices

VOD

Ingest

Ingest directly from Azure File Storage, S3 storage or HTTP

File formats: MP4, MPEG2-PS, MPEG2-TS, Matroska MKV, QuickTime, MXF, Flash (with H.264 and AAC codecs), 3GP, Matroska WebM, ISMV, AVI, Window Media Format

Input video codecs: MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC, Sony XAVC / XAVC S, DVCPro SD and HD, Digital video DV and HDV, JPEG 2000, Apple ProRes 422 (including LT and HQ), Apple ProRes 4444 (including XQ), Sony XAVC, Sony XDCAM IMX, Sony XDCAM (including HD and EX), V210 Video Picture Encoding, MPEG-1, VC-1, VP8, VP9, MJPEG, AV1, Microsoft MPEG4v1, v2 and v3, H263, Avid DNxHD and DNxHR

Input audio codecs: AAC (including AAC-LC, AAC-HE, and AAC-HEv21, up to 5.1), MPEG Layer 2, MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3), PCM, LPCM, DPCM and ADPCM, AES (SMPET331M and 302M, AES3-2003), Dolby E (Passthrough), Dolby Digital (AC3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3), DTS, Opus, Vorbis

Video encoding

Codec: H.264, HEVC

Resolution: Progressive, from QCIF to UHD, up to 60 fps

Data rate: From 100 kbps to 60 Mbps

HDR: Passthrough and conversions. HDR10, HLG10, PQ10. Dolby Vision 8.1 & 5.0

Rate control: CBR, VBR, Constant Video Quality (CVQ)

Output

File format: MPEG-TS or MP4

MP4 progressive download, HLS, DASH streaming output

Thumbnail

Poster, thumbnails, sprites

Templates

Built-in preset or custom configuration

Metadata

Subtitles passthrough and conversion

EIA 608/708 Closed Caption, SCTE-20, DVB Teletext, DVB Subtitles, SCTE-27, ARIB B24

Ad insertion

EBIF / EISS / AITSCTE-35 passthrough

Nielsen

Watermark extraction for multi-screen devices

AI

Compression engine

AI-powered, adaptive video encoding

Transcription

Automatic creation of subtitles track. (For live and on-demand)

Translation

Automatic translation of subtitle tracks. (For live only)

DRM

Content protection

Using PlayReady, Widevine, FairPlay or ClearKey DRM with AES-128

Built-in key and license server or external CPIX compatible KMS

Token restriction

SWT or JWT token restriction

Supports Symmetric Key, RSA and X509 Certificate

Primary Key can be retrieved using OpenID Connect

Storage & delivery

Streaming

Unified delivery of Live 24/7, Live events, Live passthrough and VOD

HLS and DASH over CMAF. Using CMAF chunking for low latency live events

Customized delivery using time based or track-based filters

Built-in CDN support

Storage

Format: ATS or MP4

Private storage link

Subtitling

SMPTE-TT for DASH, WebVTT for HLS

Player

Web-based player

HTML5 video player SDK

DASH, HLS. Standard and Low-latency

Viewing metrics

Stream control

Token and DRM integration, playback restrictions

Monitoring & control

Control plane

Unified control plane for all media assets and environments

Fine-grained user access control with enterprise-grade RBAC

OIDC authentication integration for NIST-certified user management

Monitoring

Billing and usage metrics

Unified operational dashboards

Scheduling

Event scheduling interface

Customizable ingestion of customer guide / schedules

Deployment

Models

Cloud SaaS on AWS, Azure and GCP

Cloud Dedicated on public or private clouds

High availability

Multi region / multi zone

Geo-redundancy configurations defined in API

Storage

Cross-cloud storage support

Private network links to customer-owned storage accounts

Documentation

Public API. Detailed and complete documentation

Public support forums, attended by MediaKind engineering

  1. 1. MPEG Extended HE-AAC audio software licensed from Fraunhofer IIS.