In-house Helpers in the We-Media Era - AI Video Cloud

Video, usually a piece of content that conveys information consisting of moving pictures. In today's era of information explosion, we are looking for the information we need in the vast ocean of content every day. Whether a video has attractive content is the most important thing, but the influence of smooth playback and clear picture quality should not be underestimated.

In order to make the video achieve the best effect in the hands of every viewer, many technologies have been developed, such as narrowband HD, transcoding, compression and so on. But too much technology can also make it difficult to choose, and we can't help but wonder if there is an intelligent way to help us adjust. And the cloud AI video cloud function can just meet your needs.

is AI Video

AI video cloud is a new service generated by adding related technologies to the part of video cloud customer needs that can be realized through AI technology.

Video cloud is a video streaming service based on the concept of cloud computing technology. It uses video as the "cloud" to present processing results to the "terminal". It usually includes functions such as cloud storage, cloud transcoding, cloud live broadcast, cloud encryption, and cloud publishing. The goal is to allow customers to build professional video systems in a cost-effective and efficient way.

Adding AI technology to the video cloud can make video no longer just a carrier of content, and allow users to have greater choices and convenience in video content, retrieval, personalized recommendation, and other personalized settings.

What can AI video cloud do

Generally speaking, the entire video needs to go through three ports: the acquisition end, the server end, and the playback end from production to playback. Among them, we need to encode and render on the acquisition side. Different hardware will be used here, and there are hardware device compatibility, performance and cross-platform issues. On the server side, the unavoidable processing capability requirements for encoding and decoding will be encountered, and the player side will not be able to guarantee the playback effect of the final content on the terminal due to operator problems.

The unique full life cycle service model of AI Video Cloud can solve the needs of video production, storage, processing and distribution in one stop:

• Cloud Production: Provides video recording, editing, and playback to make video production faster.
• Cloud storage: One-click upload, stable and fast, reduce local management costs, and eliminate the trouble of data migration and storage.
• Cloud processing: Various video technologies are ready to use, and self-built services and self-research functions are no longer required, which greatly reduces development costs.
• Cloud distribution: Away from the response problems caused by operator differences, so that the scope of video promotion is wider.

In addition, the biggest feature of AI video cloud is "intelligence". By combining cutting-edge technologies such as new computing power ecology, edge computing and low-power AI video chips. Use massive big data to continuously train AI, so that AI can develop video understanding ability and video structural analysis ability for specific scenes. The rapid extraction and construction of effective information by AI, thereby reducing the loss of manpower, material resources, and time.

It is the feature of "intelligence" that enables AI Video Cloud to do the following:

• Compression Intelligence: AI automatically improves compression quality with algorithm optimization, eliminating the need for manual recompression.
• Transcoding intelligence: The algorithm selects the optimal transcoding strategy according to different video characteristics, and it is no longer necessary to manually set transcoding parameters.
• Distribution intelligence: AI automatically determines the CDN distribution URL, eliminating the need for users to manually switch video addresses before and after compression.

The Prospect of AI Video Cloud

According to analysis estimates, by 2019, the demand for video in the Chinese market has reached 10 billion. Even in February 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration of Radio and Television, and the Central Radio and Television Station jointly issued the "Ultra HD Video Industry Development Action Plan (2019-2022)", which means that the video industry has ushered in a greater development outlet.

The technical trend of video processing is the same, so how to improve efficiency and reduce costs is particularly important. AI video cloud undoubtedly achieves this, it can help us better experience the new changes brought by technology. Taking Youpaiyun AI Video Cloud as an example, as far as distribution intelligence is concerned, you can automatically and intelligently compress the video according to the high-frequency hot video URL statistically analyzed from the internal log, and actively distribute the compressed video to Each CDN node. When subsequent users access the video, they will automatically access the compressed cache node. This can make video requests faster and effectively improve the efficiency of promotion. At the same time, because the video is intelligently compressed, the bandwidth traffic is reduced, and the bandwidth cost can also be effectively reduced.

The AI video cloud can do much more than that. Whether it is the continuously optimized AI encoding and decoding capabilities at the algorithm level, or the fast and easy access method in terms of user experience, the AI video cloud will definitely become a trustworthy choice.

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