Media Server 26.1
Media Server Help

# Image and Video Processing

This section shows which Media Server features are supported for different types of media.

- Image includes single image files and images that are extracted from documents such as PDF files.
- Video includes video files and video streams.

Analysis | Image | Video
--- | --- | ---
Face detection, recognition, and demographics | ✓ | ✓
Optical Character Recognition | ✓ | ✓
Image classification | ✓ | ✓
Object class recognition | ✓ | ✓
Object recognition | ✓ | ✓
Text detection | ✓ | ✓
Number plate recognition | ✓ | ✓
Vehicle make and model recognition | ✓ | ✓
Clothing color analysis | ✓ | ✓
Scene analysis | ✗ | ✓
Keyframe extraction | ✗ | ✓
Image comparison | ✓ | ✓
Color clustering | ✓ | ✓
Barcode recognition | ✓ | ✓
Video matching | ✗ | ✓
Visual clustering | ✗ | ✓
Image hash generation | ✓ | ✓
Audio analysis (audio categorization, language identification, speaker identification, speech-to-text, audio matching) | ✗ | ✓
News segmentation | ✗ | ✓
Encoding | Image | Video
Clip Encoder | ✗ | ✓
Evidential Rolling Buffer | ✗ | ✓
Image Encoder | ✓ | ✓
MJPEG Encoder | ✗ | ✓
MPEG Encoder (to file or UDP stream) | ✗ | ✓
PDF Encoder | ✓ | ✓
Rolling Buffer | ✗ | ✓
Event Stream Processing | Image | Video
Filter | ✓ | ✓
Combine | ✓ | ✓
Deduplicate | ✓ | ✓
And | ✓ | ✓
AndThen | ✗ | ✓
AndAny | ✓ | ✓
AndThenAny | ✗ | ✓
AndNot | ✓ | ✓
AndNotThen | ✗ | ✓
Or | ✓ | ✓
Transformation | Image | Video
Audio Redaction | ✗ | ✓
Blur | ✓ | ✓
Crop | ✓ | ✓
Draw | ✓ | ✓
Image Format | ✓ | ✓
Overlay | ✗ | ✓
Rotate | ✓ | ✓
Scale | ✓ | ✓
Set Rectangle | ✓ | ✓
Utilities | Image | Video
Count | ✗ | ✓
Heatmap | ✗ | ✓
Output | Image | Video
ACI Response | ✓ | ✓
Files on disk | ✓ | ✓
Connector Framework Server | ✓ | ✓
IDOL (Knowledge Discovery Content component) | ✓ | ✓
Vertica | ✓ | ✓
ODBC database | ✓ | ✓
HTTP POST | ✓ | ✓
Milestone XProtect | ✗ | ✓

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Version 26.1 | Last updated January 2026

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Media Server 26.1

Topic Title: Image and Video Processing