Video API encoding and streaming

Stream beautifully, everywhere

Empower your content team with the ability to produce beautiful videos and serve them fast to any device with our API.

Fastest API for any video size

Adaptive bitrate means fast on every device

Thanks to our API's HLS Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming, every viewer will always download the right video size for their device and connection speed

API for all video formats

Any video format, instantly streamable

We can ingest almost every available codec — including those for broadcast and professional applications like H.264, H.265, VP9, and Apple ProRes — and make videos instantly available for streaming.

Thumbnails? Included.

Thumbnails are entry level when it comes to video, yet implementing them is far from simple. With a single request through our API you can get a thumbnail or an entire storyboard to use in your player to scrub preview images.

/video/thumb.jpg? width=600 & time=1

/video/thumb.jpg? width=600 & time=3

/video/thumb.jpg? width=600 & time=5

/video/thumb.jpg? width=600 & time=7

/video/thumb.jpg? width=600 & time=9

/video/thumb.jpg? width=600 & time=11

a flexible Video API

Fast, high-quality streaming video for your framework of choice

Our seamless integration with the Mux video CDN makes it easy to serve streaming video using any video player you like, open-source or professional, web or native. Or, you can simply use one of our own DatoCMS Video Components for React/Next.js , Vue/Nuxt, or Svelte/SvelteKit, for easy, drop-in video playback in your project.

APIs + Worldwide CDN

A complete set of smart, modern APIs

DatoCMS does not only offer a powerful video API but a full coordinated suite of different APIs and tools to work seamlessly with the three fundamental blocks of content: text, images and video. Everything is built on CDN, optimized for speed and scalability.