# VideoDB — Data infrastructure for video, built for machines and agents > One backend that turns files, live streams, cameras, and screen capture into machine-readable context. Search, remember, edit, stream. Across cloud, VPC, and the edge. **Status:** v2.4 · RTStream is generally available --- ## Hero Data infrastructure for video, built for machines and agents. The old stack delivers files to players. VideoDB gives AI applications one backend to see, understand, and act on video in realtime. CTAs: [Talk to us](/company#contact) · [Build with VideoDB](https://console.videodb.io/auth) --- ## The problem Video was built for people to watch. Now agents need to understand it. - **The playback stack** — Built to store, encode, and deliver files to people on a player. Storage (S3 / GCS / buckets / archives), encoding + delivery (ffmpeg / transcoding / HLS / CDN / players), human playback (DRM / thumbnails / analytics / watch pages), AI bolted on (ASR / OCR / VLMs / embeddings / vector DBs), and custom glue (metadata stores / queues / webhooks / brittle pipelines). Built for watching, extended for AI, hard to scale. - **The AI stack** — Universal ingestion for every video source. Connect models to build an understanding layer, retrieve context, create memory, and deliver the right video moments instantly. Built for AI processing, deploy anywhere, scale built in. --- ## The platform One platform for every video intelligence workflow. VideoDB turns every source into searchable context, memory, and action for AI agents. [Read the Platform Spec](/platform) 1. **Bring in any video source** — Feeds, streams, files, recordings, and audio. 2. **Understand every moment** — Scenes, speech, people, objects, activities, and events. 3. **Retrieve moments as context** — Search video and get playable clips and context back. 4. **Connect to your systems** — Send video context through events, webhooks, and agents. 5. **Create new outputs** — Generate clips, captions, overlays, and streams. --- ## How teams use VideoDB How organisations are solving real problems with VideoDB. 1. **[LIVE CAMERA] Real-time intelligence across thousands of cameras** — VideoDB ingests live RTSP feeds, runs custom CV models on every frame, and returns playable evidence the moment something matters. [See how teams use it](/real-time-monitoring) 2. **[PROGRAMMABLE MEDIA] Create videos from search results** — Search your video library for scenes in natural language, then combine the best moments into new clips with captions, voice, and overlays, all through code. [See how teams use it](/programmable-media) 3. **[AGENTIC PERCEPTION] Realtime vision for AI agents** — Agents are creating content, running marketing, recording meetings, and using browsers for you. VideoDB gives them realtime visual context, so they can see, remember, and act on what happened. [See how teams use it](/agentic-perception) 4. **[TRAINING DATA] Turn raw footage into training samples** — Search across massive video archives to find the exact scenes, actions, objects, and edge cases needed for model training. [See how teams use it](/training-video-data) --- ## Why teams pick VideoDB Built differently for the AI video era. VideoDB brings together encoding, indexing, retrieval, editing, and streaming in one purpose-built backend, powered by a media processing engine built over years for AI-native video applications. - **10x** — Lower total cost. One bill replaces 10+ vendors. - **100x** — Faster video retrieval. ~120 ms across PB archives. - **5 min** — To production. pip install, POC same day. - **1 API** — For realtime + files. Same SDK, same mental model. --- ## Production — already live VideoDB powers real video workloads across healthcare, safety, media, AI agents, and enterprise workflows. - **10 TB** uploaded every month — across cloud, VPC, and edge. - **40K+** custom indexes built each month — bring your own model. - **25K+** searches per month — every result a playable clip. ### Case patterns - **OTT engagement:** "Custom search and editing on 2,500 hours of premium content. Pilots that used to take six months ran in six weeks." — streaming customer, 2,500 hrs catalog, programmable editing. - **Healthcare deployment:** "1,000+ cameras, custom CV models, sub-second alerts in production. VideoDB collapsed nine months of integration into eight weeks." — healthcare customer, 1,000+ feeds, custom CV models. --- ## Loved by builders Video infrastructure veterans, AI builders, and media technologists see VideoDB as a new backend for searchable, programmable, and agent-ready video. - **Oliver Cameron** — Co-Founder & CEO, Odyssey ML - **Tom Mason** — previously CTO at stability.ai - **Johnny Boufarhat** — Founder, Hopin - **Yohei** — General Partner, Untapped Capital - **tooz** (@adarshsolanki), **Nour** (@Defi_Nour), **Strakyo** (@Strakyo) --- ## Ecosystem Built for modularity. Works with every modern stack. Agent runtimes, model labs, camera systems, robotics pipelines, sovereign clouds — VideoDB is the common video data layer underneath. [Become a Partner](/company#partners) - **Agent platforms** · **AI models integration** · **Cloud partners** · **Integration partners** - **Camera systems** — fleet management, NVRs, security platforms. - **Robotics stacks** — real-world perception data for control and policy training. - **Media products** — catalog search and programmable editing for OTT and creator tools. - **Sovereign clouds** — AI-native video layer for regional and government hosting. - **World model pipelines** — structured, provenance-aware video for frontier model labs. --- ## Deployment One SDK. Managed or in your cloud. Start managed, move to your own cloud later — no code changes. Edge GPU and on-prem extensions plug into either tier. | Tier | Use | Notes | |---|---|---| | **[FULLY MANAGED]** Fastest path | Run on VideoDB Cloud | Multi-region (US, EU, IN), auto-scaling indexing & retrieval, usage-based, POC live in <48 hours. Best for media teams, agentic startups, ML product teams. | | **[BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD]** Sovereign / regulated | Run inside your AWS, GCP, or Azure | Single-tenant control plane in your account, private link, no data egress, optional edge GPU for sub-second alerts. Best for healthcare, fintech, defense, telco, regulated EU buyers. | --- ## Security & controls Enterprise-grade security and controls. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001 — with customer-managed keys, Zero Data Retention, and SSO across your IDP of choice. - **Zero Data Retention** — Configurable ZDR for sensitive workloads. Queries and originals can be automatically purged on your schedule. - **SOC 2 Type II** — Independent audit of access control, change management, and incident response, renewed annually. - **Single Sign-On** — SAML and OIDC across your IDP. SCIM provisioning and team-level RBAC on annual plans. --- ## Closing Video intelligence that will transform healthcare, security, defense and media is here. CTAs: [Talk to us](/company#contact) · [Read Documentation](https://docs.videodb.io/pages/getting-started/welcome) --- ## Sitemap - [/](/) — Homepage - [/platform](/platform) — Platform overview - [/agentic-perception](/agentic-perception) — Agents that see, hear, remember - [/real-time-monitoring](/real-time-monitoring) — Cameras, sensors, live ops - [/programmable-media](/programmable-media) — Query, edit, stream by code - [/training-video-data](/training-video-data) — Training data for physical AI - [/developers](/developers) — Quickstart, SDKs, OSS agents, pricing - [/company](/company) — Mission, partners, team, investors, contact © 2026 VideoDB, Inc. · videodb.io · hello@videodb.io