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Playback

Score 15.4 / 100 1 providers +9 via APIs 12 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (1)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Thin 1 Limited public surface area
FastPixVideoStreamingLive StreamingVideo-on-Demand1 API30.6

APIs with this tag (12)

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Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Livepeer Playback APIPlayback info endpoint returning HLS/WebRTC playback URLs and metadata for a stream or asset, plus access-c...39.2Livepeer Playback APIOperations related to playback api39.2Looking Glass Playback APITransport controls for the Bridge media player38.1Brightcove Playback APIFetches video and playlist data for players and mobile apps, providing optimized delivery of media metadata...33.1Sonos Control APICloud-based REST API for controlling Sonos players and groups: playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playl...31.3FastPix Playback APIManage playback IDs for media and live streams.30.6Bitmovin Player APIJavaScript and REST APIs for embedding and configuring the Bitmovin HTML5 player, managing player licenses,...29.9Devialet Playback APIPlay, pause, mute, unmute, next, and previous on the group's current source.28.3VdoCipher Playback APIGenerate OTP and playbackInfo for authorized playback.26.7
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
JW Player Delivery APIHigh-availability CDN-backed API for content embedding, playback metadata retrieval, poster images, streami...20.9JW Player JavaScript Player APIClient-side JavaScript API for controlling the JW Player embedded in web pages. Exposes methods and events ...20.9
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Open Podcast Queue APISynchronize the user's playback queue (up-next list) across clients, including ordering, additions, and rem...10.7

Companies reaching this through an API (9)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Playback” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Bitmovin Brightcove Devialet JW Player Livepeer Looking Glass Open Podcast API Sonos VdoCipher

Score breakdown

Frequency
35.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
32.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
1.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DRM 5 co-occurrences Live Streaming 5 co-occurrences Streaming 7 co-occurrences Video 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag12
Provider tag1
Openapi tag5
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