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What Is Live?

Huawei Cloud Live is the cumulation of years of video expertise. It offers a secure and high-concurrency E2E livestreaming solution while delivering a low-latency HD experience. Live offers the following subproducts:

Cloud Live

Cloud Live is an easy-to-use livestreaming service. It provides diverse live acceleration capabilities for entertainment, e-commerce, and education scenarios.

Huawei Cloud Live provides Cloud Stream Live and Low Latency Live (LLL). Table 1 describes their differences.

  • Cloud Stream Live improves the stability and efficiency of high-concurrency livestreaming and provides powerful real-time media processing capabilities. Figure 1 shows the architecture of Cloud Stream Live.
    By default, it is billed by downlink playback traffic. Available billing options include traffic volume, daily peak bandwidth, and 95th percentile bandwidth. For details, see Billing.
    Figure 1 Cloud Stream Live architecture

    Process of livestreaming:

    1. A streaming tool is used to push a livestream to an origin server with uplink acceleration enabled.
    2. The origin server transcodes the livestream in real time.
    3. The processed livestream is distributed to viewers with downlink acceleration enabled.
    4. Live records the livestream to Object Storage Service (OBS).
  • Low Latency Live can minimize latency and frame freezing in high-concurrency scenarios. With optimized transmission protocols, dynamic routing, and low-latency transcoding, LLL keeps the latency under milliseconds to help you deliver premium content even under poor network conditions. It is suitable for scenarios that require low latency and good content synchronization. Figure 2 shows the LLL architecture.

    A multi-terminal demo is provided for you to try out LLL. To obtain the app demo and source code, submit a service ticket to contact Huawei Cloud technical engineers.

    Figure 2 LLL architecture
Table 1 Comparison of Cloud Live sub-scenarios

Cloud Live Sub-Scenario

Cloud Stream Live

LLL

Streaming Protocol

RTMP, HTTP-FLV, and HLS

WebRTC

E2E Latency

RTMP and HTTP-FLV latency > 3s

HLS latency > 6s

E2E latency < 800 ms

Adaptable Network

Average

Good

Application Scenario

Livestreaming that is insensitive to latency

Interactive livestreaming that requires low latency and good image synchronization

General Capability
  • Functions such as real-time transcoding, recording, real-time snapshot capturing, content encryption, authentication, and statistics analysis
  • More than 2800 acceleration nodes in China and more than 800 outside China to provide superlative service experience

Media Live

Huawei Cloud Media Live ensures stable broadcast-grade streaming for the industry's leading PGC players, around the clock with zero interruptions. Powered by the abundant compute resources of Huawei Cloud AZs worldwide and Huawei's years of audio/video expertise, Media Live helps TV stations and OTT platforms confidently deliver media content to their global audiences with unparalleled clarity and performance.

Figure 3 Media Live architecture