Video Services C++ Client Library

An idiomatic C++ client library for video services, including:

Live Stream API , a service to transcode live, linear video streams into a variety of formats.
Transcoder API , a service to convert video files into formats suitable for consumer distribution.
Video Stitcher API , a service to generate dynamic content for delivery to client devices. Call the Video Stitcher API from your servers to dynamically insert ads into video-on-demand and live streams for your users.

While this library is GA, please note Google Cloud C++ client libraries do notfollow Semantic Versioning .

Quickstart

The following shows the code that you'll run in the google/cloud/video/quickstart/ directory, which should give you a taste of the video services C++ client library.

 #include "google/cloud/video/transcoder/v1/transcoder_client.h"
#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) try {
  if (argc != 3) {
    std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " project-id location-id\n";
    return 1;
  }

  namespace transcoder = ::google::cloud::video_transcoder_v1;
  auto client = transcoder::TranscoderServiceClient(
      transcoder::MakeTranscoderServiceConnection());

  auto const parent =
      std::string{"projects/"} + argv[1] + "/locations/" + argv[2];
  for (auto r : client.ListJobs(parent)) {
    if (!r) throw std::move(r).status();
    std::cout << r->DebugString() << "\n";
  }

  return 0;
} catch (google::cloud::Status const& status) {
  std::cerr << "google::cloud::Status thrown: " << status << "\n";
  return 1;
}

Main classes

This library offers multiple *Client classes, which are listed below. Each one of these classes exposes all the RPCs for a gRPC service as member functions of the class. This library groups multiple gRPC services because they are part of the same product or are often used together. A typical example may be the administrative and data plane operations for a single product.

The library also has other classes that provide helpers, configuration parameters, and infrastructure to mock the *Client classes when testing your application.

Retry, Backoff, and Idempotency Policies.

The library automatically retries requests that fail with transient errors, and uses exponential backoff to backoff between retries. Application developers can override the default policies.

More Information

Error Handling - describes how the library reports errors.
How to Override the Default Endpoint - describes how to override the default endpoint.
How to Override the Authentication Credentials - describes how to change the authentication credentials used by the library.
Environment Variables - describes environment variables that can configure the behavior of the library.