Sandbox environment for HeyWatch

To simplify the development and the integration of our API in your projet we decided to drop the trial option (not very adequate) and replace it by a sandbox environment.

The sandbox environment is free of charge, the only constraint is that all the encoded videos will be shortened to 5 seconds. That’s it, the full API is available.

To change your environment, go to your account page.

 

Let us know what you think.

New Developers site for HeyWatch

We’ve totally updated the developers site which has its own domain now. We hope you’ll appreciate the new documentation: http://dev.heywatch.com

Let us know by twitter what you think.

All the X264 options are now available via the Hey!Watch API

Some of our customers wanted to have full control over the H264 settings because our default ones don’t fit their needs. It’s okay and this is why we decided to bring you all the X264 options (only via API for now).

Add the “x264_options” parameter to your job / download request and you’re ready to go. The form must be:

x264_options=param1:value1,param2:value2,...

See the full documentation here.

We need to warn you: don’t use this option if you don’t know what you’re doing. The default settings we’re using should just be fine for most of you.

Here are the full list of available parameters (ffmpeg names not the x264 ones):

Parameter type Values g integer keyint_min integer sc_threashold integer bf integer 0 to 16 b_strategy integer 0, 1, 2 bframebias integer 0 flags2 string +bpyramid, +wpred, +mixed_refs, +dct8×8 coder integer 0, 1 refs integer 0 to 16 flags string -loop, +loop, -fastskip deblockalpha integer deblockbeta integer cqp integer crf float qdiff integer i_qfactor float b_qfactor float chromaoffset integer qcomp float complexityblur float qblur float partitions string +partp8×8, +partp4×4, +partb8×8, +parti8×8, +parti4×4 directpred integer me_method string epzs, hex, umh, full me_range integer subq integer 1 to 9 trellis integer 0, 1, 2 level integer 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 42, 50, 51

We strongly advise you to read these sites before starting:

This is a beta feature, so we don’t charge more credits for now, and of course we’d love to hear your feedbacks via Twitter or via email.

Hope you enjoy.

Hey!Watch new cool features: 2-pass encoding, 3GP hint, FLV Metadata Injection

2-pass encoding

By using 2-pass encoding, you’ll have the video quality improved significantly. You just need to edit your custom format and check the 2-pass checkbox. Nothing more. It will cost the number of credits for the video * 2, since 2-pass means 2 encode jobs.

MOV, MP4, 3GP Hint

We now hint 3GP files, so they can also be streamed like we did with MOV and MP4 videos months ago. It’s done automatically if the video format is mov, mp4 or 3gp.

FLV Metadata Injection

Here are the injected metadata:

  • creator
  • metadatacreator
  • hasKeyframes
  • hasVideo
  • hasAudio
  • hasMetaData
  • canSeekToEnd
  • duration
  • datasize
  • videosize
  • videocodecid
  • audiosize
  • audiocodecid
  • audiosamplerate
  • audiosamplesize
  • stereo
  • filesize
  • lasttimestamp
  • lastkeyframetimestamp
  • lastkeyframelocation
  • keyframes (filepositions, times)
  • width
  • height
  • framerate
  • videodatarate
  • audiodatarate

It’s done automatically after the FLV encode.

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