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Generate High-Quality, Value-Added Video Data on the Fly with the Socionext M820L

By Bryce Mackin on August 07, 2018
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The Socionext M820L hybrid codec and data processing solution offers superior video decoding combined with powerful data extraction, analysis, and encoding capabilities while preserving optimal image quality. It is ideal for applications requiring high-performance video processing and analysis, including artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, surveillance, content distribution and more.

Users across the globe have an insatiable appetite for video content, which now accounts for nearly three-quarters of all internet traffic worldwide and growing. We are all consuming – and, in many cases, creating – a tremendous amount of video across services like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube as well as live streams, social media, video conferencing, security cameras, video games, and virtual / augmented reality just to name a few of the fastest growing segments.

The above adds up to a mind-boggling amount of video content being generated and consumed every day, which begs the questions: How do we make sense of all that video data?

Extracting meaningful data from video is critical not only for content providers looking to better understand and serve their users, but also for a wide range of applications requiring the ability to process, analyze, transform and add meta-data to video in real-time.

Socionext developed the latest addition to our M820 hybrid codec series, the M820L, to meet just this emerging need.

Socionext M820L hybrid codec & data processing solution

Our recently introduced M820L hybrid codec and data processing solution maximizes the value of video data. The M820L combines high-quality decoding and encoding of multi-channel, high-resolution video with high-performance processing capabilities. This enables the M820L to analyze and extract meta-data from video in real-time and then either embed relevant information into the video output or transfer the data to other systems for further processing.

The M820L’s ability to selectively capture and transmit AV meta data to the cloud for AI and deep learning make it ideal for applications that can benefit from such video analysis, including advanced surveillance cameras, digital marketing, sports video analysis, and video content management and distribution services.

<b>M820L Applications Examples and Process Flow</b><br>
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<b>M820L Hybrid Codec</b>
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The M820L hybrid codec is a PCIe-based, low-profile card composed of the company's flagship MB86M30 HEVC/AVC codec IC and high-performance, SC2A11Ā multi-core ARM processor. This flexible design enables the M820L to serve multiple use cases, including enhancing encoding performance or adding video processing capabilities to existing systems as well as powering dedicated, high-density transcoding servers.

 

Niconico’s Next-Gen Video Sharing Platform Powered by the M820L

Niconico, one of the top video sharing web services in Japan with 4+ million paid subscribers, is leveraging the power of the M820L for their video sharing platform. Read on to learn why.

niconico logoAs you’d imagine, scaling to handle millions of video uploads and views using conventional servers, with their high-power usage and performance bottlenecks, would be challenging – especially as users’ appetite for high-definition video grows. Which is why Dwango, the company behind Niconico, reached out to Socionext in 2015 for help designing a next-generation video processing platform that could efficiently and cost-effectively support higher quality video, live streaming and other advanced features at a massive scale.

The result of the collaboration between Socionext and Dwango to take Niconico’s video sharing platform to the next level will link the service’s video data processing servers with our M820L hybrid codec module.Ā The M820L will help significantly improve Niconico’s real-time video data transcoding performance, allowing many users to simultaneously upload and view high-quality video. The new system, offering double the performance compared to the previously deployed conventional servers, will be deployed later this year.

M820L Hybrid Codec Installation Option

PCIe End Point

You can install the M820L into a PCIe slot on a PC or server to add video processing functionality or accelerate an existing encoding system.

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Learn More About the M820L

The Socionext team has decades of experience designing and developing advanced video technologies. We created the M820L to provide high-quality, multi-channel transcoding of HD video while simultaneously offering unparalleled video processing, analysis and meta-data generation capabilities. Complete the form below to learn more.Ā Ā Ā 

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Bryce Mackin
Bryce is a Product Marketing Manager of Standard Products at Socionext America. He has more than 15 years of industry experience and has held product management, marketing management, strategic marketing, and device planning roles at semiconductor and systems companies, including NVIDIA, Xilinx, Altera and Adaptec. Bryce has a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial and System Engineering from San Jose State University.
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