Elemental Technologies 从2006年一家利用GPU加速视频处理的小型创业公司起步，凭借其在GPU并行视频处理领域的开创性技术，于2015年被Amazon收购，成为AWS媒体服务的核心技术引擎。如今以AWS Elemental品牌运营，提供从云到本地的完整视频处理解决方案，服务全球顶级广播机构、流媒体平台和企业客户。在视频处理赛道中，AWS Elemental与Grass Valley AMPP、Telestream Vantage、MediaKind等构成竞争格局，尤其在云原生视频处理领域占据领导地位。
AWS Elemental本地设备与软件
| 产品名称 | 功能定位 |
|---|---|
| Elemental Live | 本地部署的实时视频编码设备/软件，支持SDI基带信号处理，提供L800和L900系列硬件 |
| Elemental Server | 基于文件的视频处理解决方案，用于本地转码工作流 |
| Elemental Conductor Live | 视频网络管理工具，管理多个Elemental Live节点组成的编码集群 |
| Elemental Statmux | 统计复用（Statistical Multiplexing）处理，优化多频道带宽效率 |
| Elemental Link | 紧凑型硬件设备（Link HD / Link UHD），将现场直播视频源直接连接到AWS云进行编码和分发 |
Recently, Amazon announced plans to livestream the Premier League in HDR format.
Prime Video will begin streaming 10 matches from the first week of December starting December 5, and will stream an additional 10 matches during the Boxing Day bank holiday period.
It has been confirmed that "some matches" will use HDR format, "providing fans with a wider color range and greater contrast, creating more vivid match visuals."
Elemental Live is a real-time video processing system that provides real-time audio and video encoding for television broadcasters and various new media platforms. The system combines the characteristics of hardware with massive parallel processing capabilities and flexible, reliable software, significantly reducing the overall cost of video compression processing.
VIDEO PROCESSING FOR LIVE STREAMING
This live broadcast is presented to us by Elemental and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The content of the live stream will focus on discussions surrounding the use of video cloud technology infrastructure for live broadcasting. Guest host Viocorp will also elaborate on the company's decision-making process regarding video processing using cloud computing infrastructure during the conference live stream, and will provide in-depth explanations of several live broadcast use cases.
On October 23, 2013, in Portland, Oregon, Elemental Technologies, a leading provider of video solutions for multi-screen content, announced today that K-OPTICOM, a comprehensive telecommunications operator in Japan, will utilize Elemental's first nationwide live 4K video processing for high-efficiency ultra-high-definition video encoding (H.265/HEVC) transmission. The Elemental® real-time system will power the live video stream for the Osaka Marathon on October 27, designed in collaboration with K-OPTICOM.