What you can use today.
Implemented features and their admission requirements, plus planned work. A feature is usable only when your live job options advertise it as available.
Three speeds: Fast runs solo on the node at top priority, Standard shares the node, and Economy packs jobs onto spare capacity at lowest priority. Economy is native API only: SDR H.264 + AAC, MP4/HLS through 1080p. HDR conversion, captions, DRM and progressive delivery require Standard or Fast. Paid Standard and Fast include a 99.5% public SLA; 99.9% by order form.
Your account’s available profiles, capabilities and limits come from live job options. Talk to us about your workflow.
Self-serve
Available through the API, subject to your account settings and a qualified worker.
| Capability | Availability | Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Measured API availability | Self-serve | The public status page shows measured availability for this UTC month and the last 30 days, with daily history. Earlier minutes are marked not measured. |
| Rendition ladders | Self-serve | Self-serve, with the renditions you choose, within your account’s limits. |
| HLS delivery | Self-serve | Ladders deliver into your own Amazon S3 storage through an IAM role, or Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2 or Wasabi through registered S3-compatible credentials. Without a destination, silken holds them for seven days by default; live job options give account limits, and output records give expiry. |
| Progressive HLS | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| DASH / CMAF | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| HEVC | Self-serve | HEVC/AAC MP4 file recipes, subject to live worker grants; check your account’s live job options before submitting. |
| VP9 | Self-serve | VP9/Opus WebM file recipes, subject to live worker grants; check your account’s live job options before submitting. |
| AV1 | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Captions and subtitles | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Thumbnails and sprites | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Multiple audio tracks | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Surround audio | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Watermarks | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Job priority | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Studio inputs | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| HDR10 / HLG passthrough | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Dynamic metadata input | Self-serve | Requires this capability to be available in your account’s live job options |
| Audio loudness | Self-serve | EBU R128 (-23 LUFS) or ATSC A/85 (-24 LUFS), with true-peak control; requires qualified audio workers advertised in job options. |
Enabled per account
Available when enabled for your account. Contact us to discuss your workflow.
| Capability | Availability | Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| DRM / SPEKE v2 | Enabled per account | DRM is enabled per account with your HTTPS SPEKE v2 key server and qualified workers. It uses SPEKE v2 and CENC cbcs for H.264/AAC VOD ladders. Test protected playback on your target players before switching. |
Planned
Not available through the public API today. Contact us about what you need.
| Capability | Availability | Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Per-title encoding | Planned | Planned API capability; not currently offered |
| Dynamic metadata output | Planned | Planned API capability; not currently offered |