Your hosted content (so live streams are not concerned here) will not be monetizable until they are encoded and stored, but your encoding choices also determine how you are billed; It is then essential to understand the process of uploading and encoding!

TABLE OF CONTENT

• 1. Upload of hosted content
• 2. Encoding of your content
• 3. Encoding status of your streams
• 4. Billing

1. Upload of hosted content

When creating content from the Media encoding menu, you will be prompted to upload your file CATALOG > Media encoding > Create new media to encoding > "Sources" module (this is the left-hand window) on the content creation page.

• You have 2 options for uploading a Source file:
  
• Either locally (from your computer or a hard disk), in this case you are limited to 5 Gigas in source file.
  

• Either from an online server (file on Amazon S3 for example), you just have to paste the url on which the content is hosted. In this case you can have a file of 30 Gigas maximum. Dropbox and Google Drive links are not accepted.

Note also that you can upload a single file containing multiple video or audio tracks, our system will identify and separate them.

2. Encoding of your content

When the content is uploaded, the system displays the various content tracks (video tracks, .vtt subtitles, audio tracks) in the left-hand "Sources" panel.

Then choose the ones you want to use for your content by clickingand they will be added to the "Streams" panel on the right.

As a standard, we recommend creating 3 resolutions for video streams and 1 resolution for audio (unless you have several multilingual audio tracks). In other words, click at least 3 times on.

Once in the panel on the right, your tracks are ready to be encoded! Choose the languages and qualities of the tracks you want to offer your users. 

You can also rename your tracks to identify them quickly; to do so, modify the “displayed name” field. In the case of subtitle files or multilingual audio tracks, it is also the name that will appear for your viewers when choosing the language (so you must rename the track accordingly with the right language):

• When you’re ready to create the encoding, click . Once the encoding is complete, you can always add new tracks, or delete them.

• To view the rendering of your content, click  and choose your tracks the way your users do.

• You can also add subtitles in mountain bike format from the Source window on the left by clicking on 'Chapter' or 'Subtitles'.  
  
  
• The language of the subtitles will be chosen by your users from the Subtitle menu in the bottom right-hand corner of the player window. They will be able to select one of the languages you have made available. 

  
  

  The language of the chapters is set automatically by your users' browser from the vtt. files you have downloaded. By default, English or French will be displayed. 

  

An example of the chapter and subtitle format is attached. 

3. Encoding status of your streams

•  = stream on the encoding waiting list
• 35% = stream in the process of encoding
•  = encoding full
• = encoding not started / problem while trying to encode (hover overfor more information about the error)

You will also find a pictogrammetoggle at the top of the page, which informs you of the encoding of current content.

4. Billing

Your OKAST package is linked to a number of hours of content that you can upload. This quota of hours is called the encoding package.

Each time you encode a video or audio track, they use part of this quota whether or not you use the content. Subtitle tracks and thumbnails do not use up this quota. You can find this package and the percentage already used on your home page or at the top of the Media encoding menu.

From your home page :

- You have used up 193 hours and 39 minutes of encoding time.

- Your package allows you to upload 106 hours and 21 minutes of content

In this example, from the CATALOG > Media Encoding menu header :

- Your Media Encoding catalogue contains 171 items of content.

- You have used 222 hours and 39 minutes of encoding out of 300 hours.

- Your quota is 74.2%.

However, the encoded streams will not use the same credit!

Depending on their type and quality, they may impact differently your uploading credit. OKAST provides a system of ratios, specific to each stream you choose to encode:

• Subtitles= 0 hours of credit used
• Thumbnails = 0
• Audio 160 = 0,125
• Audio 320 = 0,125
• Video 360p = 0,125
• Video 480p = 0,125
• Video 576p = 0,125
• Video 720p = 0,25
• Video 1080p = 0,5
• Video 4096p = 1
• Video in live streaming 3 resolutions (RTMP) = 2

To give you an idea of the potential consumption of your encoding, a Widjet automatically calculates your tracks ready to be encoded.

This flat rate is deducted when you click on 'Start encoding'.

To avoid unpleasant surprises, we will inform you by e-mail when you reach the 10%, then 5% and finally 0% of encoding time remaining.

To add encoding time, you need to send us an email with the volume you want.

For one video of 1 hour duration, here are 3 examples of encoding choices you could make, and their different impacts on your quota *:

*(These are 3 suggestions, but you are free to do the encoding choices you want!)

• Option 1 = This content will be available in English and in the lowest quality, with French and Spanish subtitles. These encoding choices will use 15 minutes on the 300 hour credit.

• Option 2 = This content will be available in English, with three different video qualities, and with subtitles. These encoding choices will use 1 hour on the 300 hour credit.

• Option 3 = This content will be available in English, French, Spanish, 4K video quality and 320 audio, with subtitles. These encoding choices will use 2 hours 07 minutes and 30 seconds on the 300 hour credit.

⚠ Warning: once you have reached your quota, you will not be able to encode new content. You will need to upgrade to a higher rate. Also, deleting already encoded content will not reduce your encoding package (because the encoding credit will have already been used)