Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Media Services (IMS) is a one-stop service for live streaming and video-on-demand scenarios, covering media collection, media asset management, content production, and delivery. IMS provides professional, broadcast-grade capabilities that are intelligent and flexible. It also offers mature, low-code SDK integration solutions for complex business workflows.
Prerequisites
Before you read this topic, you should be familiar with the following concepts:
Why choose Intelligent Media Services?
Intelligent Media Services provides the following benefits:
Professional: Offers broadcast-grade, high-performance, and standardized services.
Flexible: Supports end-to-end processes without repeated authorization. Provides visual workflow orchestration and efficient fault tolerance.
Intelligent: Offers integrated AI services for media collection, asset management, production, processing, and playback.
Versatile: Supports multiple delivery models, including PaaS, PaaS+, and SaaS.
Contact us
If you have questions or want to obtain technical support, join the DingTalk group for IMS (ID: 84650000851) to contact us.
Service architecture
You can use the console, APIs, or SDKs to sync videos or live streams to the Intelligent Media Services platform. The platform supports multiple sources and sites.
You can perform operations such as media asset management, media processing, and content production on the videos or live streams. The intelligent workflow engine supports single tasks, complex jobs, and high-concurrency scenarios.
You can distribute the processed media content through CDN for playback on various devices.
Features
Intelligent Media Services provides media asset management, intelligent media processing, intelligent production, and Real-time Conversational AI services. For more information, see Features.
Scenarios
Intelligent Media Services supports scenarios such as training and education, video websites, broadcast media, short-form video, and interactive streaming. For more information, see Application Scenarios.