Bitmovin

aid: bitmovin
name: Bitmovin
description: Bitmovin is an Emmy Award-winning video streaming infrastructure platform providing REST APIs for cloud video
  encoding (VOD and live), adaptive bitrate packaging (HLS, MPEG-DASH), DRM integration, an HTML5 player, and analytics for
  quality-of-experience observability. Its encoding pipeline covers 800+ endpoints and ships open-source SDKs in Java, JavaScript,
  Python, Go, PHP, and C#.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bitmovin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Video
- Encoding
- Streaming
- Live Streaming
- VOD
- Adaptive Bitrate
- HLS
- DASH
- DRM
- Player
- Analytics
- Media
- Cloud
apis:
- aid: bitmovin:encoding-api
  name: Bitmovin Encoding API
  description: REST API for cloud-based VOD and live video encoding. Supports H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1 and more, along
    with adaptive bitrate packaging (HLS/DASH/Smooth Streaming), DRM (Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay), and per-title encoding
    optimisation.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.bitmovin.com/encoding/
  baseURL: https://api.bitmovin.com/v1
  tags:
  - Video Encoding
  - VOD
  - Live Streaming
  - HLS
  - DASH
  - DRM
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.bitmovin.com/encoding/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://developer.bitmovin.com/llms.txt
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bitmovin-encoding-api-openapi.yml
  contact:
  - FN: Bitmovin Developer Support
    url: https://community.bitmovin.com/
    email: support@bitmovin.com
- aid: bitmovin:player-api
  name: Bitmovin Player API
  description: JavaScript and REST APIs for embedding and configuring the Bitmovin HTML5 player, managing player licenses,
    and collecting playback event data.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.bitmovin.com/playback/
  baseURL: https://api.bitmovin.com/v1
  tags:
  - Player
  - Playback
  - HTML5
  - Video Player
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.bitmovin.com/playback/
  contact:
  - FN: Bitmovin Developer Support
    url: https://community.bitmovin.com/
    email: support@bitmovin.com
- aid: bitmovin:analytics-api
  name: Bitmovin Analytics API
  description: REST API for querying player and streaming quality-of-experience metrics including buffering, startup time,
    error rates, and audience segmentation for video observability.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.bitmovin.com/playback/docs/analytics-api
  baseURL: https://api.bitmovin.com/v1
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Quality of Experience
  - Observability
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.bitmovin.com/playback/docs/analytics-api
  contact:
  - FN: Bitmovin Developer Support
    url: https://community.bitmovin.com/
    email: support@bitmovin.com
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://bitmovin.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.bitmovin.com/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/bitmovin
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitmovin
- type: Blog
  url: https://bitmovin.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://bitmovin.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.bitmovin.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/bitmovin
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bitmovin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bitmovin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bitmovin-finops.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/bitmovin-platform-openapi.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/bitmovin-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com