Video on demand

Video on demand API for builders

Per-title encoding. AV1 + H.264. Adaptive bitrate. Multi-CDN delivery. OTT, microdrama, online learning, and SaaS-with-video teams build on it.

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1curl -X POST https://api.fastpix.com/v1/on-demand \
2  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
3  -u ":" \
4  -d '{
5  "inputs": [
6    {
7      "type": "video",
8      "url": "https://static.fastpix.com/fp-sample-video.mp4"
9    }
10  ],
11  "accessPolicy": "public",
12  "metadata": {
13    "key1": "value1"
14  },
15  "maxResolution": "1080p",
16  "mediaQuality": "standard"
17}'

3 calls from upload to playback ~50ms to 96% of viewers worldwide 35% better compression at the same quality

AaoNxt streams premium microdrama on FastPix VOD. Rocketlane built RLTV on it. Sclera moved off DIY-on-AWS.

TRUSTED BY PRODUCT TEAMS SHIPPING VIDEO AT SCALE

Why this matters

Three things you stop solving the day you ship on FastPix VOD.

Playback in seconds, not minutes

Just-in-time transcoding starts the playback session before the full encode finishes. Whether it is a 30-second clip or a two-hour premiere, the first viewer is watching in seconds.

Time to first frame

One bill. One SLA. One vendor to page

Encoder, storage, CDN, DRM, player, and analytics consolidate into one API and one invoice. When something breaks at 2am, you call one company.

Every asset is AI-ready on day one.

Video chapters, conversational search, named-entity recognition, NSFW filtering, and speaker diarization run on every VOD asset the moment encoding finishes. No second pipeline.

How it works

Four building blocks, one API surface

TL;DR: 3 calls from file to playback

Upload the file

POST to /v1/on-demand with the source URL or use direct upload via resumable SDK.

Encode + package

FastPix runs per-title ABR encoding on VPUs. CMAF ready in seconds.

Embed and play

Use the FastPix Player React component or any HLS player with the returned playback ID.

Upload from anywhere. Resumable by default.

Direct upload, signed URL, pull from any HTTPS source, or stream from S3, GCS, Azure. Resumable uploads means a dropped Wi-Fi connection picks up where it left off.

Direct-upload from browser, iOS, Android, Flutter SDKs
Pull from S3, GCS, Azure, any HTTPS URL
Webhook on upload, encode, and ready events

1curl -X POST https://api.fastpix.com/v1/on-demand/upload \
2     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
3     -u "<username>:<password>" \
4     -d '{
5  "corsOrigin": "*",
6  "pushMediaSettings": {
7    "accessPolicy": "public",
8    "metadata": {
9      "key1": "value1"
10    },
11    "maxResolution": "1080p",
12    "mediaQuality": "standard"
13  }
14}'

Smart encoding ladders, not 1980s presets.

Per-title encoding analyzes each asset and picks the rungs that actually serve it well. A talking head does not need the same ladder as a fast-cut trailer. 35% smaller files at the same quality.

H.264, HEVC, AV1 output
Per-title adaptive bitrate ladder
Multi-DRM hardened: Widevine + FairPlay + PlayReady
Just-in-time packaging for CMAF

Encoding output for a 60-min asset

Source4K, 12 GB

Rendition240p / 360p / 480p / 720p / 1080p / 1440p / 2160p

Media Quality tiersPremimum

Output codecH.264 + AV1

Avg bitrate saving35%

PackagingCMAF

DRMWidevine + FairPlay + Playready

Watermarkingavailable

Routed to the viewer, not to a region.

FastPix delivers from a multi-CDN mesh. The viewer in Mumbai hits a different edge than the viewer in Toronto. You do not pick the CDN; the system picks for you.

Multi-CDN: not tied to any single provider
Geo-routing built in
~50ms first-byte to 95% of viewers
Per-region failover automatic

Delivery footprint

CDN strategy3-vendor mesh

PoPs300+ globally

Avg TTFB (95th pct)~50 ms

Per-region failoverautomatic

Signed playback URL5-min default expiry

AI features inline, not a second pipeline.

In-Video AI is part of the same API call that encodes the video. Chapters, transcripts, search, summary, NSFW detection are ready when encoding finishes. No separate model to call, no second invoice.

Auto-chapter detection
Multi-language transcripts + captions
NSFW + moderation flags
Named entity recognition

1curl -X POST https://api.fastpix.com/v1/on-demand/upload \
2     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
3     -u "<username>:<password>" \
4     -d '{
5  "corsOrigin": "*",
6  "pushMediaSettings": {
7    "accessPolicy": "public",
8    "metadata": {
9      "key1": "value1"
10    },
11    "maxResolution": "1080p",
12    "mediaQuality": "standard"
13     "moderation": {
14          "type": "video"
15      }
16  }
17}'

Security, compliance, and partnerships

PartnerNVIDIA Inception

PartnerGoogle Cloud Partner

Customers

“What was great about the FastPix team is it felt like we were all working together. They felt like part of our team, not just vendors.”

Kaushik Das, Founder and CEO at AaoNXT

“What was cool was seeing it all come alive, all the workflows as per our vision and UX. To do that with our brand colors, reflective of our community.”

Sivaprakash S, UX lead for RLTV at Rocketlane

B2B SaaS customer onboarding

35%

Better compression at the same quality

Aaonxt on FastPix encoding

AWS media services replaced

Rocketlane on FastPix VOD

40%

Cost reduction migrating off DIY-on-AWS

Sclera customer story

6 weeks

From contract to launch with AI search

Knovo customer story

Capabilities that ship

Six key capabilities

Signed URLs and token authentication

Tokens expire on the schedule you set, so leaked links go cold.

Token auth guide

Token and domain-based playback control

Restrict playback to signed users via JWT and lock it to your own domains. Entitlement rules become a config change

Secure playback control

DRM with Widevine and FairPlay

Studio-grade content protection on every asset. No separate license server to operate.

Piracy prevention

Content-adaptive per-title encoding

35% better compression at the same quality across H.264, HEVC, AV1.

Per-title encoding explained

Webhooks on every asset event

Trigger downstream workflows on upload, encode-complete, first-play, or error. No polling.

Automation guide

Multi-CDN delivery

Route VOD traffic across multiple CDNs with automatic failover, improving performance, reliability, and uptime.

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Verified performance, VOD

3.1x

Faster upload than any other vendors

177.2 MB on 4G

1.8x

Faster time-to-ready than any other vendors

177.2 MB on 4G

35%

Better compression at the same quality

H.264, HEVC, AV1

Overall benchmark score

86/100 on 177.2 MB 4G test

Tech specs

What FastPix VOD handles.

Curated capability catalog for the most-asked formats, codecs, and integrations. See the features for everything.

Input formats

MP4

MOV

MKV

AVI

MXF

DVCPRO

XDCAM

PRORES

MPEG-TS

WEBM

DRM

Widevine

FairPlay

PlayReady

AES-128

Output containers

CMAF

MP4

Input codecs

H.264 / AVC

H.265 / HEVC

AV1

VP9

Resolutions

SD (480p)

HD (720p)

Full HD (1080p)

4K (2160p)

Captions

WebVTT

SRT

HDR

HDR10

Dolby Vision

HLG

Ingest Support

Google Cloud

AWS S3

Azure Blob

Public URL

Direct upload

FTP / SFTP

Aspera

Where customers come from

Where most FastPix VOD customers come from.

FROM

AWS Elemental, MediaConvert, CloudFront

Move the encoder, storage, CDN, and DRM into one API. Keep your AWS account for source files if you want; FastPix pulls from S3.

AWS migration path

FROM

DIY ffmpeg on S3 plus a player you wrote

The build that made sense at 100 hours per month does not at 10,000. Move the heavy parts without giving up the working ones.

DIY migration

FROM

Vimeo

Bulk-import your existing library by URL. Keep playback live during the move, then cut over when you are ready.

Vimeo migration

Questions developers ask

VOD questions, answered

How do I migrate from AWS Elemental / MediaConvert / CloudFront?
Move the encoder, storage, CDN, and DRM into one API. Keep your AWS account for source files if you want; FastPix pulls from S3 directly. Sclera did this and saw a 40% cost reduction. Full AWS migration path.
How do I migrate from DIY ffmpeg or a player I wrote?
The build that made sense at 100 hours per month does not at 10,000. Move the heavy parts (encoding, CDN, player) without giving up the working ones. Asset-by-asset re-upload is the standard path. DIY migration guide.
How do I add video upload and playback to a Next.js app?
POST the source file to the FastPix Assets endpoint, store the playback ID, and render the FastPix Player React component. Two server routes and one component. See the Next.js guide.
How do I monitor playback quality and debug buffering in production?
FastPix Video Data tracks startup time, rebuffer ratio, error codes, and per-rendition quality on every session across 16 player surfaces with 56 dimensions per session. Drill from a flagged session to the exact error in one click.
How do I convert video to multiple formats for my app?
You do not. FastPix emits CMAF renditions tuned per-title, plus AV1 and HEVC where the player supports them. The right format ships to the right device automatically.
How do I automate thumbnail and GIF generation for my videos?
FastPix generates thumbnails, sprite sheets, and animated GIFs on every asset at predictable URLs. Pull by timecode, dimension, or aspect ratio.
How do I embed video in a mobile app?
Native SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native. Pass the playback ID, get HLS playback with ABR, captions, and DRM. No bespoke decoder code.
How do I ingest source files from S3 or a CMS without re-uploading?
FastPix accepts a URL in the input field and pulls directly from S3, GCS, Azure Blob, or any public URL. No round-trip through your servers.
How do I record a live stream and keep it as on-demand?
FastPix Live writes the stream to a VOD asset automatically when the broadcast ends. Same playback ID model, same player, same analytics.
How do I reduce video streaming costs for a mobile app?
Per-title encoding, AV1 where supported, multi-CDN routing. The 35% compression improvement compounds with the egress savings from FastPix's CDN strategy.
What is a VOD API technically?
A VOD API accepts video files, runs them through an encoding ladder, stores them, delivers them over a CDN, and returns playback URLs. FastPix's VOD API does the full path in a single POST. The same API exposes signed URLs, DRM, per-title encoding, and analytics.
How long does it take to encode a video for streaming?
On FastPix, a 10-minute 1080p source returns a ready playback URL in 35 to 90 seconds, depending on how complex the source is. Per-title encoding profiles the source first then picks a rendition ladder, which is slower than fixed profiles but cuts delivered bandwidth by 20 to 40%.

Pricing

Per minute encoded, delivered, and stored.

No platform fee, no per-seat charge, no separate invoice for each surface. See full pricing or run the calculator.

ENCODING

Pay per minute encoded

$0.0267/min 1080p Pro

Per-title ABR encoding across H.264

Up to 720p Pro$0.0213 / min

Up to 1080p Pro$0.0267 / min

1440p (2k) Pro$0.0427 / min

2160p (4k) Pro$0.0855 / min

STREAMING

Pay per minute streamed

$0.00067/min 1080p Pro

Multi-CDN delivery from 300+ POPs.

Up to 720p Pro$0.00054 / min

Up to 1080p Pro$0.00067 / min

1440p (2k) Pro$0.00108 / min

2160p (4k) Pro$0.00217 / min

STORAGE

Pay per minute stored

$0.00268/min 1080p Pro

Assets stored and CDN caching, lifecycle handled.

Up to 720p Pro$0.00215 / min

Up to 1080p Pro$0.00268 / min

1440p (2k) Pro$0.00430 / min

2160p (4k) Pro$0.00860 / min

Three ways to get unstuck

Whatever kind of help you need, there is a path.

Engineering support

Talk to a video engineer.

Stuck on an API call, a webhook signature, or a player integration? Reach the engineering team directly. Response within hours, not days.

Contact engineering

Integration help

Docs, code samples, video tutorials.

Self-serve resources for the most common integrations. Quickstart guides, SDK examples, recorded walkthroughs on YouTube, and detailed playback logs in your dashboard.

Browse the docs

Solution architect

Plan the rollout with a human.

New integration, migration off another platform, or a complex multi-tenant build. Book a session with a FastPix solution architect or join the Slack community to compare notes with other teams.

Join the Slack community

Developer resources

Video on demand API for builders

Three things you stop solving the day you ship on FastPix VOD.

Four building blocks, one API surface

Upload from anywhere. Resumable by default.

Smart encoding ladders, not 1980s presets.

Routed to the viewer, not to a region.

AI features inline, not a second pipeline.

Six key capabilities

Signed URLs and token authentication

Token and domain-based playback control

DRM with Widevine and FairPlay

Content-adaptive per-title encoding

Webhooks on every asset event

Multi-CDN delivery

What FastPix VOD handles.

Input formats

DRM

Output containers

Input codecs

Resolutions

Captions

HDR

Ingest Support

Where most FastPix VOD customers come from.

VOD questions, answered

How do I migrate from AWS Elemental / MediaConvert / CloudFront?

How do I migrate from DIY ffmpeg or a player I wrote?

How do I add video upload and playback to a Next.js app?

How do I monitor playback quality and debug buffering in production?

Per minute encoded, delivered, and stored.

Whatever kind of help you need, there is a path.

Everything you need to start building.

Video on demand

Full API reference

Webhook reference

Code samples

Five-minute VOD quick-start

Changelog