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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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