Abstract
On one hand, since the introduction of UHD (ultra-high definition) videos, e.g., 4K and 8K videos, it is becoming more resource and time intensive to transcode videos. On the other hand, the increasing demand for video streaming implies more videos need to be transcoded. These two facts motivate the need for techniques to speedup coding and transcoding time. In this paper, we propose Stride, the first distributed video transcoding system that leverages the Apache Spark big data platform. The design of Stride is transcoder agnostic, meaning it can adopt any transcoder implementation (e.g., FFMPEG) without any modification. We provide an experimental characterization of the impact of video transcoding and Spark configuration parameters to identify the optimal settings. We also compare Stride with competing approaches. Our results show that Stride achieves 3.27 times speedup when the computing power (i.e., the number of vCPUs in a cloud) is increased by a factor of 4, which is significantly higher than the other alternatives we explore. In particular, Spark's dynamic task scheduler allows Stride to reduce transcoding time by 19.86% compared to an implementation without Spark. Our benchmark study suggests that Stride can support transcoding from 4K to 1080p (full HD) at a rate matching the video bitrate using approximately only 24 virtual cores.
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