Cloud Technology Drives Superior Video Encoding

New codecs, such as AV1, enable broadcasters and service providers to deliver high-quality, including UHD-1/4K, UHD-2/8K, and virtual reality (VR), but with increased complexity. Since adaptive streaming requires multiresolution synchronized encoding, the delivery of next-generation video becomes even more challenging. For live applications, the amount of complexity is unmanageable with current central processing unit (CPU) or graphics processing unit (GPU) on-premises technologies. This paper examines the limitations of on-premises server-based encoding and how cloud computing can solve these issues. It outlines how broadcasters and service providers can take advantage of new applications like event-based encoding to successfully deliver superior-quality video on every screen
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