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title: Video
sidebar-title: Overview
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description: >-
Access the Video API for building video conferencing applications. Manage room
sessions, members, recordings, playback, and RTMP streaming.
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[video-client-1]: /docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/client

[video-client]: /docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/client/events

Access the Video API Consumer. You can instantiate a [Video.Client][video-client-1] to subscribe to Video events. Make sure to check the [full list of events][video-client] that a [Video.Client][video-client-1] can subscribe to.

#### Example

The following example logs whenever a room session is started or a user joins it:

```javascript
import { Video } from "@signalwire/realtime-api";

const video = new Video.Client({ project, token });

// Listen for events:
video.on("room.started", async (roomSession) => {
  console.log("Room has started:", roomSession.name);

  roomSession.on("member.joined", async (member) => {
    console.log("Member joined:", member.name);
  });
});

// Get active room sessions:
const { roomSessions } = await video.getRoomSessions();
```

## Classes

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Client" icon="fa-solid fa-server" href="/docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/client">
    The main Video client for subscribing to room events and monitoring video sessions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="RoomSession" icon="fa-solid fa-door-open" href="/docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/room-session">
    Represents an active video room session with methods for managing members, recordings, and playback.
  </Card>

  <Card title="RoomSessionFullState" icon="fa-solid fa-database" href="/docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/room-session-full-state">
    Extended room session object containing the complete state including all members and metadata.
  </Card>

  <Card title="RoomSessionMember" icon="fa-solid fa-user" href="/docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/room-session-member">
    Represents a participant in a video room with properties for audio/video state and metadata.
  </Card>

  <Card title="RoomSessionPlayback" icon="fa-solid fa-play" href="/docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/room-session-playback">
    Represents a playback instance in a video room for playing media content.
  </Card>

  <Card title="RoomSessionRecording" icon="fa-solid fa-circle-dot" href="/docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/room-session-recording">
    Represents a recording instance in a video room with methods to control recording state.
  </Card>

  <Card title="RoomSessionStream" icon="fa-solid fa-broadcast-tower" href="/docs/server-sdk/v3/node/reference/video/room-session-stream">
    Represents an RTMP stream from a video room for streaming to external platforms.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>