Prepare your video for streaming with Segue

We identify new opportunities in video streaming, involving the joint consideration of offline video chunking and online rate adaptation. Due to a video's complexity varying over time, certain parts are more likely to cause performance impairments during playback with a particular rate adaptati...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-04
Main Authors: Licciardello, Melissa, Humbel, Lukas, Rohr, Fabian, Grüner, Maximilian, Singla, Ankit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Algorithms
Complexity
Segments
Streaming media
Video transmission
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Summary:We identify new opportunities in video streaming, involving the joint consideration of offline video chunking and online rate adaptation. Due to a video's complexity varying over time, certain parts are more likely to cause performance impairments during playback with a particular rate adaptation algorithm. To address such an issue, we propose Segue, which carefully uses variable-length video segments, and augment specific segments with additional bitrate tracks. The key novelty of our approach is in making such decisions based on the video's time-varying complexity and the expected rate adaptation behavior over time. We propose and implement several methods for such adaptation-aware chunking. Our results show that Segue substantially reduces rebuffering and quality fluctuations, while maintaining video quality delivered; Segue improves QoE by 9% on average, and by 22% in low-bandwidth conditions. Finally, we view our problem framing as a first step in a new thread on algorithmic and design innovation in video streaming, and leave the reader with several interesting open questions.
ISSN:2331-8422