USING WORKER NODES IN A DISTRIBUTED VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEM

摘要

Various of the disclosed embodiments relate to a distributed video encoding or transcoding system may utilize multiple encoding nodes to encode a video sequence by splitting the video into multiple smaller video segments. The assignment of video segments to the encoding nodes is performed to balance the use of the encoding nodes by selecting a node based on its encoding capabilities, e.g., whether the node employed a central processing unit (CPU) based encoding or a graphics processor unit (GPU) based encoding.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, implemented at a master server in a distributed network, comprising:
receiving a video for encoding; establishing a pool of worker nodes for encoding the video; splitting the video into multiple segments; and submitting the multiple segments to the pool of worker nodes for encoding such that each segment is submitted to a corresponding worker node based on a run-time availability of the corresponding worker node.