The Open Visual Cloud is a set of open source software stacks (with full end-to-end sample pipelines) for media, analytics, graphics and immersive media, optimized for cloud native deployment on commercial-off-the-shelf x86 CPU architecture. The open source software stacks presented for the Open Visual Cloud are provided under the FFmpeg and GStreamer frameworks as ready-to-use Docker images and Dockerfiles, which can help to implement cutting Visual Cloud services for advanced video distribution and processing. The Open Visual Cloud contains many end-to-end reference samples to unleash innovation, serving as a recipe book of optimized open source software pipelines to accelerate your application development.
Values to Developers
- Ready-to-use docker images
- Domain specific software stacks provided as docker images ready to pull, and Dockerfiles for customization
- FFmpeg/GStreamer high-level software
- Building blocks you already familiar with, unified under well-known frameworks, for quick app development.
- Optimized software, add HW acceleration easily
- Develop with optimized software with easy switching to hardware acceleration by changing docker layers.
- E2E tested and patched
- We have done the hard work to ensure the software works end to end.
- E2E sample for innovation
- Many samples to showcase what is possible and use the software stacks we provide.
- Open recipes for non-docker apps
- Not ready to adopt docker? Dockerfiles shows all the ingredients and secretes. Read our open recipe book.
Getting Started
Want to get started coding right away? Visit the Documents section to find developer focused technical documentation and samples.
Further Information
- Intel Developer YouTube Video: Introducing Open Visual Cloud
- Intel Blog: Open Source Spurs Visual Cloud Innovation
- Intel Blog: Open Visual Cloud Accelerates Innovation for Visual Cloud Services
- Intel Blog: Content Delivery Networks Evolve in a New Era of Storytelling
- Netflix Blog: Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework
- Chip Chat Podcast: Visual Cloud: Why focusing on Media is not sufficient
- Chip Chat Podcast: Visual Cloud at NAB 2019: Intel continues to drive innovation in Visual Cloud
- White Paper: Rethinking Visual Cloud Services for Evolving Media
- SVT White Paper- Scalable Video Technology for the Visual Cloud with AWS.
- SVT White Paper - Scalable Video Technology for the Visual Cloud with Azure
