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ApsaraVideo VOD:Overview

Last Updated:Dec 09, 2020

This topic introduces the short video demo. This topic also describes how to use the short video demo to build your short video service.

Context

After years of industry development, short videos have become a new popular medium for content dissemination in addition to text and images. Short videos apply to various scenarios such as entertainment, social contact, e-commerce, and early childhood education. Mobile users have a strong demand for short videos.

Demo

You can scan the following QR code in DingTalk to download and install the short video solution.

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Source code download

Download the short video demo files, including the demo files for the iOS and Android clients, AppServer, and console. For more information, see the "Download the short video demo" section of the SDK download topic.

Process

The following figure shows the basic process.

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Step

Operation

Description

1

Activate and configure ApsaraVideo VOD

Before you build the short video AppServer, you must activate and configure ApsaraVideo VOD.

2

Activate and configure Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

We recommend that you build your short video service on ECS instances. In this case, you must activate and configure ECS after you activate and configure ApsaraVideo VOD.

3

Build the short video AppServer

After you activate and configure ApsaraVideo VOD and ECS, you must build the short video AppServer.

4

Build the short video console

After you build the short video AppServer, you must build the short video console.

5

Build the short video clients for Android and iOS so that users can use the clients to access your short video service.