How NETFLIX onboards new content: Video Processing at scale 🎥

Everyday, #Netflix handles billions of requests regarding movies, trailers and other video content. Delivering at such a large scale needs an #engineering marvel. This #video will talk about how Netflix is able to onboard new video content onto their platform. We go from video chunking to collating 4 second shots into scenes.

Amazon S3 is used to store the video chunks. Netflix also provides open connect servers to internet service providers, which acts like a cache of movies. Most requests to Netflix can be served by this cache, and the remaining are sent over the network. This reduces the bandwidth and time required for Netflix to operate at scale. Synergy at it’s finest.

00:00 Problem Description
00:32 Video formats and resolutions
03:18 Chunk processing
05:52 Storage
06:19 OpenConnect for video caching
10:13 Summary

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References:
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/high-quality-video-encoding-at-scale-d159db052746
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/optimized-shot-based-encodes-now-streaming-4b9464204830
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/tagged/video-encoding
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/tagged/stream-processing
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/keystone-real-time-stream-processing-platform-a3ee651812a
https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-with-isps-around-the-globe-to-deliver-a-great-viewing-experience

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Fast and Furious 7 (Car chase scene)
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Sacred Games (Available on Netflix)
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