METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT LIVE AND OFFLINE MULTIMEDIA TRANSCODING

    公开(公告)号:US20240214590A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18392409

    申请日:2023-12-21

    IPC分类号: H04N19/40 H04N19/177

    CPC分类号: H04N19/40 H04N19/177

    摘要: A versatile high-throughput multimedia transcoding station, serving a plurality of multimedia sources, employs transcoding resources including a pool of decoders, a pool of signal-adaptors, and a pool of encoders operating concurrently to realize low-latency transcoding of high-flow-rate multimedia streams. A multimedia stream contains a video stream organized into source groups-of-pictures (GOPs). Upon receiving a transcoding request indicating characteristics of a source multimedia stream and desired characteristics of a destination multimedia stream, an orchestrator rapidly allocates a resource for each GOP and coordinates activation of a content-processing assembly which encompasses the transcoding resources and means for distributing each GOP to compatible resources. The orchestrator assembly monitors progress of GOPs' processing and, when needed under high workload fluctuation, instructs a multimedia source to pause transmission. Each of the decoders, signal adaptors, and encoders comprises a respective hardware processor coupled to a memory device storing software instructions and a buffer holding intermediate data.