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Dolby.io

Dolby.io (now branded as Dolby OptiView) is Dolby Laboratories' developer platform for media, streaming, communications, and advertising APIs. Originally launched as a hub for Dolby's audio and video processing services (Media APIs, Communications APIs), the platform has consolidated around three OptiView pillars — Real-time Streaming (formerly Millicast), Live Streaming (formerly THEOlive), and Playback (formerly THEOplayer) — with an Advertising pillar built on Server-Guided Ad Insertion. The platform powers live sports streaming for the NFL, NASCAR, Paddy Power, and other large broadcasters, with sub-500ms WebRTC delivery, multi-format ingest (WHIP/WHEP, SRT, RTMP), and cross-platform playback SDKs.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Dolby.io the way a machine reads it — 71 machine-readable artifacts across 18 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Dolby.io scores 74.3/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 79/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 74.3/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 15.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 15.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 9.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 79/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Dolby.io

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dolby.io. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 18

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Dolby.io Media API

Legacy Dolby.io Media APIs for cloud-based audio and video processing. Includes Enhance (noise reduction, leveling, dialog isolation), Analyze (loudness, speech metrics, diagnos...

Dolby.io Communications API

Legacy Communications APIs for high-quality WebRTC voice and video conferencing with spatial audio, music mode, noise suppression, and dial-in/dial-out. Includes Client Access T...

Dolby OptiView Ads API

Server-Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI) for live streaming. The Signaling Service enriches origin manifests with advanced ad-break markers and integrates with Google Ad Manager for ad...

Dolby OptiView Player SDK (THEOplayer)

Cross-platform video player (formerly THEOplayer) with SDKs for Web, Android, iOS & tvOS, React Native, Flutter, Chromecast, and Roku. Supports HLS, MPEG-DASH, DRM, advertising ...

Dolby.io ABR Ladders API

The ABR Ladders API from Dolby.io — 1 operation(s) for abr ladders.

Dolby.io Analytics API

Account-level usage, tracking, and advanced reporting.

Dolby.io Channels API

The Channels API from Dolby.io — 20 operation(s) for channels.

Dolby.io Cluster API

Cluster discovery for region-specific publish/subscribe URLs.

Dolby.io Custom Endpoint Providers API

The Custom Endpoint Providers API from Dolby.io — 1 operation(s) for custom endpoint providers.

Dolby.io Custom Endpoints API

The Custom Endpoints API from Dolby.io — 2 operation(s) for custom endpoints.

Dolby.io Distributions API

The Distributions API from Dolby.io — 13 operation(s) for distributions.

Dolby.io Engines API

The Engines API from Dolby.io — 6 operation(s) for engines.

Dolby.io Ingests API

The Ingests API from Dolby.io — 3 operation(s) for ingests.

Dolby.io PublishToken API

Create and manage publish (broadcaster) tokens.

Dolby.io Regions API

The Regions API from Dolby.io — 1 operation(s) for regions.

Dolby.io SubscribeToken API

Create and manage subscribe (viewer) tokens.

Dolby.io Webhook API

Register and manage event-driven webhooks for feeds, recordings, thumbnails, transcoders, and viewer connections.

Dolby.io Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Dolby.io — 4 operation(s) for webhooks.

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Postman Collections 2

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arazzo Workflows 11

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Dolby OptiView Attach Ingest and Engine then Go Live

Add an ingest and a transcoding engine to a channel, start it, and poll until playing.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Audit Channel Run History

Resolve a channel, list its engine runs, and pull its transcoding-minutes analytics.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Enable Recording Webhook and Token

Register a recording webhook, then create a publish token that records its streams.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Inspect an Engine's Last Run

Pick an engine on a channel, fetch its most recent run, then list its full run history.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Provision and Start a Channel

Create a THEOlive channel, start it, and poll until it is live and playing.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Provision a Broadcast Token with Cluster

Discover the account cluster, create a publish token, then read it back to confirm.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Provision a Viewer Token

Create a geo-restricted subscribe token for a stream, then read it back to confirm.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Publish a Secured Distribution

Create a distribution for a channel and attach a token security key to protect playback.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Start a Single Engine and Confirm

Select an engine on a channel, start it, and poll the engine until it is playing.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Stop a Channel and Confirm Idle

Stop a running channel and poll until it has fully settled in the stopped state.

ARAZZO

Dolby OptiView Tear Down a Channel

Stop a channel, poll until it is fully stopped, then delete it.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

dolby-io-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Dolby Io Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 20

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

OptiView Real-time Streaming (Millicast) — sub-500ms WebRTC streaming to 100k+ viewers
WHIP and WHEP protocol support for standards-based publish and playback
Multi-protocol ingest — WebRTC, SRT, RTMP, RTMPS
Video codec support — H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1; Opus audio
Publish and Subscribe token APIs with regex stream names, geo restrictions, IP binding
Webhooks for feeds, recordings, thumbnails, transcoders, and viewer connections (HMAC-SHA1 signed)
Account-level analytics — publish minutes, viewer minutes, bytes transferred
OptiView Live (THEOlive) — live channels with low latency, Nielsen tracking, DRM, server-side ads
Channels, Ingests, Engines, Distributions resource model with full REST and GraphQL surfaces
Server-Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI) with Google Ad Manager integration
OptiView Player SDKs — Web, Android, iOS/tvOS, React Native, Flutter, Chromecast, Roku
Open Video UI component library for player customization
Legacy Media APIs — Enhance, Analyze, Transcode, Diagnose, Music Mastering
Legacy Communications APIs — WebRTC conferencing, spatial audio, recording, RTMP/HLS streaming
Official REST API client SDKs for Node.js, Python, and .NET
Real-time Streaming UI Kit for iOS (Swift)
WebRTC statistics parser for browser-side diagnostics
Region presence across US East/West, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America
Bearer-token authentication via per-account API Secrets
Status page tracking core services and regional infrastructure

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Dolby Io Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Dolby.io API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Dolby.io API Rules

8 rules · 3 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Dolby OptiView Publish Token

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dolby OptiView Subscribe Token

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dolby OptiView Webhook

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dolby Io Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Dolby Io Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Dolby Io Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Dolby Io Agentic Access

85 operations · 35 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

85 operations · 35 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Dolby.io — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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