Unified Transcode

This document outlines the use of transcoding in various use cases related to Unified Streaming products and solutions:

• 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

Note

Please see FFmpeg Libraries for a note on the license.

Attention

Use of the Intel Media SDK will become deprecated in the future. It will be replaced with the use of the FFmpeg Libraries), so next to tiled thumbnail generation for frame accurate capture and content conditioning as well.

Table of Contents

• Using a transcoders file
  • Transcoding plugins
  • The transcoders file
  • Specifying which transcoders file to use
  • Available video transcoding plugins
  • Default video transcoding plugin settings

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

• Installation of Intel Media SDK
  • Intel Media SDK
  • Windows 10 / 2016 Server
  • Ubuntu 20.04 - Intel Media SDK (2020)