Media playback

Usage notes

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• You can get SDK sample code from Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI Explorer. On the Parameters tab, configure the required parameters and make a call. Then, on the SDK Sample Code tab, select the SDK version and programming language to view and download the code. For more information, see Automatic generation of SDK examples. In Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI Explorer, in addition to the Documentation tab, each API provides the following tabs: SDK Sample Code, CLI Example, Call Result, Call History, and Error Code. On the SDK Sample Code tab, you can select an SDK version (V2.0 recommended/V1.0) and a programming language, such as Java, TypeScript, Go, PHP, Python, C#, C++, or Swift, to view and run the corresponding sample code. In the parameters section on the left, you can configure request parameters, such as CoverURL.

Initialize the client

Before you use the SDK, initialize a client. For more information, see Initialization.

Obtain a playback URL

You can call the GetPlayInfo operation to obtain a playback URL.

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After you obtain the playback URL, you can use the playback URL to play the video in a client. For more information, see Use playback URLs to play videos.

Obtain a playback credential

You can call the GetVideoPlayAuth operation to obtain a playback credential.

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After you obtain the playback credential, you can use the playback credential to play the video in a client. For more information, see Use playback credentials to play videos.