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Use Case: Video Processing Workflow

The video_recipes.json workflow has several potential invocations.

You can find two example invocations of the workflow that do slightly different tasks here:

  1. Video Transcoding: Take one video and convert it into different formats.
  2. Watermark a video: Add a watermark to your video, and upload it to S3.
Try it in Orkes Playground

Setting up Workers​

The workers that power these workflows can be found in the orkesworkers GitHub repository. There are 2 workers used here:

  1. video_recipes_prefork: This worker takes the input parameters and creates all the parameters required for the dynamic forks, i.e., the number of forks to be created and the parameters for each of the forks.
  2. video_recipes: This worker takes the inputs and (in the 2 examples below) either transcodes or adds a watermark to the video.
note

These workers are configured to run in Orkes Playground by default.

Video Transcoding​

Workflow definition​

The video_recipes.json workflow (see it live on Orkes Playground) is a general-purpose workflow designed for doing various recipes around video processing. One of the provided recipes includes transcode.

You need to provide the following input parameters:

  • fileLocation: A http location to a video file
  • recipeInfos: An array of recipe names (‘transcode’, ‘watermark’ etc..) and their corresponding parameters, i.e., recipeParmaters
  • outputSizes: An array of sizes. Each size object has a width and height property

Here is an example of an input payload to transcode an mp4 file into 4 different formats and encodes

{
  "fileLocations": [
    "https://file-examples.com/storage/fe9e2635216297e77988972/2017/04/file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4"
  ],
  "recipeInfos": [
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoEncoder": "h264",
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "outputFileFormat": "mp4"
      }
    },
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoEncoder": "h264",
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "outputFileFormat": "mov"
      }
    },
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoEncoder": "libvpx",
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "libvorbis",
        "outputFileFormat": "webm"
      }
    },
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "outputFileFormat": "mp4"
      }
    }
  ]
}
  • Transcode mp4 into h264 mp4 with aac audio and different bit rates, frame rates and audioSamplingFrequency
  • Transcode mp4 into h264 mov with aac audio and different bit rates, frame rates and audioSamplingFrequency
  • Transcode mp4 into libvpx webm with libvorbis audio and different bit rates, frame rates and audioSamplingFrequency
  • Transcode mp4 into another mp4 with the same encoder as input but with aac audio and different bit rates, frame rates and audioSamplingFrequency

Visual Workflow Definition​

You can view the video_recipes workflow in Playground.

Video Processing Workflow

Invoking a Workflow​

The workflow can be invoked using the following ways:

UI: There is a Run Workflow option in the Conductor UI to invoke a workflow and see the results.

Run Workflow

Workflow Executions​

You can view a specific workflow invocation using the workflow invocation ID that is returned as part of the invocation. For example, the successful execution of the workflow.

You can also view a workflow's execution from the workflow execution console. In the execution view, you have multiple tabs showing the workflow name, workflow ID, start/end time, status of the workflow, etc.

Workflow Execution Search

Invocation path​

Input and outputs of the workflow

Input

{
  "fileLocations": [
    "https://file-examples.com/storage/fe9e2635216297e77988972/2017/04/file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4"
  ],
  "recipeInfos": [
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoEncoder": "h264",
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "outputFileFormat": "mp4"
      }
    },
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoEncoder": "h264",
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "outputFileFormat": "mov"
      }
    },
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoEncoder": "libvpx",
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "libvorbis",
        "outputFileFormat": "webm"
      }
    },
    {
      "recipe": "transcode",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "outputFileFormat": "mp4"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Output

{
  "fileLocations": {
    "video_recipes_file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4_transcode_0": {
      "fileLocation": "https://image-processing-orkes.s3.amazonaws.com/991fa7d0-3b13-4940-9265-6cc328d38f91-TRANSCODE.mp4",
      "recipe": "TRANSCODE",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "videoEncoder": "h264",
        "outputFileFormat": "mp4"
      }
    },
    "video_recipes_file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4_transcode_1": {
      "fileLocation": "https://image-processing-orkes.s3.amazonaws.com/5abf642a-5fc3-49ac-b83c-f6e6c047c3cb-TRANSCODE.mov",
      "recipe": "TRANSCODE",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "videoEncoder": "h264",
        "outputFileFormat": "mov"
      }
    },
    "video_recipes_file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4_transcode_2": {
      "fileLocation": "https://image-processing-orkes.s3.amazonaws.com/84e9a990-d586-48c3-b04b-917e16d3ae72-TRANSCODE.webm",
      "recipe": "TRANSCODE",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "videoBitRate": 971520,
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "libvorbis",
        "videoEncoder": "libvpx",
        "outputFileFormat": "webm"
      }
    },
    "video_recipes_file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4_transcode_3": {
      "fileLocation": "https://image-processing-orkes.s3.amazonaws.com/11865799-b573-4623-8e3c-4786df25a996-TRANSCODE.mp4",
      "recipe": "TRANSCODE",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "frameRate": 24,
        "audioEncoder": "aac",
        "audioSamplingFrequency": 96000,
        "audioBitRate": 27780,
        "outputFileFormat": "mp4"
      }
    }
  }
}

You can see that the output blob has 4 different transcoded videos.

Video Watermarking​

Here you deal with the same workflow, but by changing the input parameters, you can obtain a different result.

Input parameters​

The recipe changes to watermark, and there is just one recipeParameters, the watermarkFileLocation.

{
  "fileLocations": [
    "https://image-processing-sandbox.s3.amazonaws.com/test-files/V3c0kxFjLsk-CCL-Youtube.mp4"
  ],
  "recipeInfos": [
    {
      "recipe": "watermark",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "watermarkFileLocation": "https://orkes.io/logo/orkes/png/4X/orkes-logo-purple-inverted-4x.png"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Output parameters​

{
  "fileLocations": {
    "video_recipes_V3c0kxFjLsk-CCL-Youtube.mp4_watermark_0": {
      "fileLocation": "https://image-processing-orkes.s3.amazonaws.com/86daa8e3-e35f-42dc-94d2-94092ce366a8-WATERMARK.mp4",
      "recipe": "WATERMARK",
      "recipeParameters": {
        "watermarkFileLocation": "https://orkes.io/logo/orkes/png/4X/orkes-logo-purple-inverted-4x.png"
      }
    }
  }
}