Eluvio introduces next-generation content fabric and new applications for premium live streaming, PVOD, FAST and video archive monetization

Ahead of the upcoming NAB 2024, Eluvio introduced a new version of the Eluvio Content Fabric to provide content owners, broadcasters, film studios and media/entertainment companies with premium live streaming, PVOD, FAST channels and video archive monetization at scale. Eluvio also introduced new apps to realize the full potential of Fabric with content management, automatic streaming properties, analytics and AI understanding. Eluvio will host exclusive keynotes, demonstrations and more at NAB April 14-17.

The Eluvio Content Fabric Protocol is a next-generation content distribution and storage technology that enables fast, efficient and tamper-proof streaming, downloading and monetization of all digital media content at scale. It solves the biggest distribution problems facing media companies by dramatically reducing investments in media clouds and CDNs and opening new engagement and revenue opportunities through its innovation. The software protocol runs decentrally over TCP/IP in an open global network of nodes—No CDN or third-party media cloud is required.

Next Generation Eluvio Content Fabric (Casablanca)

At NAB, the company will unveil a new generation of Eluvio Content Fabric core (also known as the “Casablanca” software release) and introduce new Creator Studio, Content Analytics and AI Content Understanding apps built on Content Fabric.

The release version of Casablanca extends the content fabric with provable mass performance and deterministic live and VoD streaming with adaptive bitrate and low latency (<1 second segment delivery times for 99% of customers and segments); extends end-to-end per-session content security with additional DRM formats and forensic watermarking for live videos; adds automatic and instant live-to-VOD (DVR) without file copies; provides automatic configuration for MPEG-TS/SRT/RTMP live stream sources; and adds many advanced features for premium broadcast-quality audio/video streaming. The new features include live, VoD and interactive streaming. Providing a frame-accurate content composition; enable scalable server-side personalization; and enable in-stream HTML 5 graphics enrichment.

Eluvio's universal AI content tagging and search service now includes significant improvements such as: B. generative AI tagging of videos and images in Fabric, in addition to six additional tagging models and fast semantic Fabric search. Tags are recorded in the metadata of content objects (on-site) and are automatically searchable and actionable. Unlike other AI content tagging workflows, there is no need to move content or metadata as the AI ​​metadata is directly and dynamically addressable across recorded live streams or extensive video archives. All content and metadata can be used directly in the fabric's dynamic streaming pipeline to create clips, insert content/ads, create highlights, etc. without the need to move media or tags – eliminating expensive entry/exit and additional Complexity can be avoided.

Building on Content Fabric's existing tamper-proof, owner-controlled content model, the latest release also includes a new content verification and proofing API. This allows users to verify the version hash of each content object or offer, guaranteeing the authenticity and provenance of each streaming output. A new C2PA Claims Manager app publishes and verifies claims in content objects and supports licensing and authorization for AI.

Content Fabric application suite

The next-generation Content Fabric Application Suite has practical and groundbreaking features to build on top of the fabric.

The new Creator Studio app allows publishers and brands to easily manage, distribute, authorize and sell media in the Content Fabric to consumers or business partners for streaming, downloading and/or discovery. The app combines easy and fast management of Fabric-hosted content; Easily create branded media websites via automated web UIs with rich and modern UX; and integrated media sales, including subscription, per-event/pay-per-view and enterprise access control options. Properties for live sports streaming, premium VoD movies and TV, and video archive services can be quickly set up and easily configured.

The new Content Analytics & Reporting app allows Content Fabric users to review comprehensive streaming and delivery quality (QoS) viewing metrics/statistics. Analytics data is continuously collected across the fabric and aggregated within the app via graphs, tables, and other visualizations to provide comprehensive and easy viewing of real-time and historical history for all content served. Users can monitor viewer counts and fabric performance per streaming event or title in real time, and run fine-grained multi-dimensional filtering queries on metrics about past streaming and viewing sessions, such as: B. Views by title, client geography, device, browser, and operating system. Users can also track streaming health by title or event, including real-time viewing of Fabric metrics for streaming segment delivery times (i.e. average, 99th percentile, maximum, min) and view breakdown by segment resolution with adaptive bitrate.

With AI Clip Search v2, Content Fabric users can search content libraries to retrieve relevant clips based on new AI/ML generative tagging in Fabric, speech-to-text transcription, and content metadata. The latest Fabric Search service enables fast re-crawling and includes improved text-based and new semantic search capabilities powered by vectorized deep learning. Clips are created dynamically for just-in-time playback. This pipeline eliminates the time and expense of manually identifying, cutting, and saving clips or highlights. The latest version includes shareable links to copy and paste streaming or download the clip, as well as side panels to display the relevant tags and semantic descriptions of each piece of content, and is fully embeddable via its APIs.

AI tags can be viewed in the video editor, which enables frame-accurate timeline viewing/scrubbing for all playable content in the fabric and its metadata in the browser. The editor is a simple clip generator that supports the ability to save keyframes, mark-in/mark-out selection, and dynamic generation and download of subsections or clips.

Finally, Eluvio will introduce new versions of the award-winning media wallet and embedded player. The Media Wallet adds a new deep-link API for embedding into browser and TV-based retail properties, new capabilities for embedding eBooks, documents and multi-mode interactive experiences, and new platform releases including releases for Microsoft Xbox in addition to Apple tvOS, Android/Google TV and Amazon Fire TV. The browser-based version includes a new generation UX that is fully integrated with Creator Studio's media and property management features. The Embeddable Player features a new, enhanced user interface with built-in indicators for live titles, screen titles, metadata, playlists and configurable multi-view switching, and features an ultra-low latency profile that delivers 3-4 seconds end-to-end streaming -Latencies with standard HLS.

“Our new applications are designed to leverage the full potential of the content fabric,” he says Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Eluvio. “Content Fabric addresses the three main problems of traditional video delivery: complexity, cost and the innovation trap. The traditional tech stack is so complex because media, metadata, processing and delivery are all part of siled workflows, and achieving fast or scalable streaming performance often requires brute force. This structure leads to unnecessarily higher costs, inefficiencies and resource requirements. And finally, it creates a blockage in the tech stack that prevents media reuse and personalization – the kind of innovation media companies need right now – especially in the age of AI. The Content Fabric replaces traditional distribution with its “content-native” approach. Streaming speed, simple workflows and cost-effectiveness are a given. Media is data-driven and controlled by the owner without having to work as hard or pay as much. That just changes the game. And now we’re bringing to market the apps that make it possible to use this powerful technology at scale.”

The Casablanca features and application suite will go into production from now until summer 2024. Eluvio co-founders will demonstrate the Casablanca Content Fabric release and applications on Sunday, April 14 and Monday, April 15 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. W237 and Eluvio will host meetings and demonstrations throughout the NAB show.

Attendees are invited to explore Content Fabric's cost savings for scaled use cases including streaming OTT (100 million hours per month); Live sports streaming and recording (1000 live events with 15,000 to 500,000 concurrent viewers receiving secure, low latency, high quality streaming); FAST Channel OTT (340 million hours including creation and streaming playout, ad insertion, DRM/security and personalization); Support of film and television libraries (200,000 titles from films); Archive monetization (250,000 hours of news and sports for online tagging, search, clip/image generation and monetization); and Whole Media Business (OTT streaming of 100 live games, subscription and sell-through per event, and 10,000 hours of archive monetization with recording/storing/adding existing data tags).