Video qualities
Video on your site stalls on phones and eats traffic
One file served to everyone is why: a phone on a weak connection pulls the same heavy copy a desktop does. Upload the original once, and keepix builds the ladder — poster, silent preview, progressive MP4 and HLS rungs — and serves them from your own domain. The player picks the rung; your server transcodes nothing.
What is built
| Variant | What it is for |
|---|---|
poster | the still frame the page shows before playback |
preview | a short silent loop for a card in a list |
mp4 | one progressive file: it plays anywhere, including old browsers |
hls | the quality ladder: the player picks the rung by the viewer's connection |
Video goes into a queue rather than into the answer — transcoding takes minutes, and a request that waits for it would time out. The answer says the work is accepted; the addresses resolve as soon as each variant is ready.
POST /api/v1/put?kind=video&key=lesson-12&variants=poster,preview,mp4,hls
X-Media-Tenant: yourapp X-Media-Key-Id: k3
X-Media-Ts: 1758300000 X-Media-Sign: <HMAC-SHA256>
GET /api/v1/resolve?kind=video&key=lesson-12 → what is ready right nowWhat this replaces
- ffmpeg on the application server, and the day it eats every core during a sale;
- a transcoding queue, its retries and its dead letters;
- bandwidth accounting — delivery traffic is measured as the bytes that actually left, taken from the web server log, not as size × hits.
Transcoding is billed by the seconds the worker really spent, not by the length of the clip: a still slide and an action scene do not cost the same because they do not cost us the same.
What it costs
Free
- 1 GB of storage
- 5 GB of delivery traffic
- 500 operations
- files up to 25 MB
- no video
Start
- 10 GB of storage
- 40 GB of delivery traffic
- 10,000 operations
- files up to 100 MB
- video and HLS
Pro
Popular- 25 GB of storage
- 100 GB of delivery traffic
- 100,000 operations
- files up to 512 MB
- video and HLS
Business
- 100 GB of storage
- 400 GB of delivery traffic
- 1,000,000 operations
- files up to 2 GB
- video and HLS
Business Plus
- 250 GB of storage
- 1.3 TB of delivery traffic
- 10,000,000 operations
- files up to 5 GB
- video and HLS
Video is on the paid plans, from $5 a month. The free plan is for images — it says so on the card rather than failing later with an error nobody expected.