The increasing prevalence of high-bandwidth multimedia applications in use over the network, such as video streaming and conferencing, remote education, remote medical services and real-time video analytics, requires providers to upgrade media server performance in order to deliver a high quality user experience. However, general purpose rack servers currently available on the market were not specifically designed for media applications, lacking the required levels of performance and compute density.
In contrast to general purpose rack servers which usually have at most two CPUs and perform software video transcoding, the ADLINK Media Cloud Server is an Application Ready Intelligent Platform (ARIP) for advanced video applications with high density computing performance that is designed from the ground up to meet the technical considerations specific to media servers while being cost-effective and easy to maintain.
The Intel® Media Software Development Kit (Intel® Media SDK) is a cross-platform (Windows
and Linux) application programming interface (API) for developing professional media
applications, including
video editing and processing, media conversion, streaming, playback,and video conferencing.
The Intel® Media SDK is designed to provide the fastest possible performance on Intel® CPUs
equipped with Intel® Quick Sync Video hardware. Intel® Media SDK effectively uses the GPU to offload transcoding tasks from the CPU, significantly accelerating video processing speed and reducing CPU resource loading. Intel Media SDK supports current Intel processors as well as those that will be available in the future. Applications will not need to be redesigned to take advantage of new processor features as they emerge.
The Intel® Media SDK has extensive video processing capabilities, but it does not provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for media processing tasks. ADLINK MediaManager fills this gap and provides the following functionality: container file operations (mux and demux), Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) receiving/streaming, video composition, and processing of
audio elements. Customers developing fully functional media applications will no longer need to write software from scratch to perform these operations.
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