Uncompressed Video in the Public Cloud: Are We There Yet?

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 132, No. 2, pp. 26–31
Abstract: Broadcasters are beginning to use the public cloud for live production, but unlike ground-based production, most of the media processing in the cloud operates on compressed media. One public cloud offers a solution for uncompressed transfer but that solution currently has some limitations that prevent widespread use between customers. We have had some success transporting uncompressed video on several clouds using a multiflow User Datagram Protocol (UDP) transport, which is described in this article. We also discuss the expected architecture of cloud services that process video, and some of the areas where standardization will be needed. There are many use cases for compressed media in the cloud, and many of them will remain for a long time. For the near future, due to business, technical, and standardization issues, we see uncompressed video transport relegated to an internal implementation detail of services that will continue to use standardized compressed formats for ingress and egress.
Publication Date: 2023-03-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2023.3236001
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2023.3236001
Author(s): Mike Coleman
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Mike Coleman has been in broadcasting since the early 1970s, first in an operational and on-air role, and then designing broadcast equipment and streaming software at companies including Tektronix, Omneon, Envivio, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental. In 2020, he and Jialu Wang left AWS to form Port 9 Labs, Portland, which does research and development work aimed at live media production in the public cloud.
Jialu Wang
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Jialu Wang is a co-founder and an engineer at Port 9 Labs, Portland, OR, focusing on live video production in public clouds. Before that, she was a software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental, Portland, working on cloud video services.
Keyword(s): Cloud, Cloud-Native, Live Production, Network Testing
Copyright: © 2023 SMPTE

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