Media processing

This document describes the Unified Streaming's media processing (also called transcoding) architecture, and provides details for the use of transcoding in various use cases related to Unified Streaming products and solutions, such as:

• Frame accurate capture

• How to package a tiled thumbnails MP4 (and Using CMAF Tiled Thumbnails as a source that uses the How to package a tiled thumbnails MP4 as a first step to create tiled thumbnails).

• Media Conditioning For Ad Insertion

Table of Contents

• Media processing architecture overview
  • Introduction
  • The media processing unit
  • Media processing unit anatomy
  • Deployment options

• Media processing and the license key
  • Viewing your license key
  • Media processing details
  • The license key check

• Plugin selection: the transcoders file
  • The transcoders file
  • Available video transcoding plugins
  • Default implementation names
  • Specifying which transcoders file to use
    • Remote transcoding on a media processing unit
    • Local transcoding

• The x264 encoding service
  • Purpose
  • Installation and configuration
  • The configuration file
  • Command line options reference

• Tiled thumbnails with FFmpeg
  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Setting up a transcoders file
  • Creating tiled thumbnail tracks

• Moving away from the Intel Media SDK
  • Upgrading to the latest version
  • Installing the FFmpeg and x264 plugin packages
  • Configuring and checking the x264 encoding service
  • Providing the transcoders file
  • Using the transcoders file

• Installation of Intel Media SDK
  • Intel Media SDK
  • Installation on Windows
  • Ubuntu 20.04 - Intel Media SDK (2020)