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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams vs Mux Video: What are the differences?

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In this Markdown document, we will compare Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and Mux Video, two popular video streaming platforms, and highlight their key differences.

  1. Scalability: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams provides virtually unlimited scalability, allowing users to ingest and process any amount of video streaming data. On the other hand, Mux Video offers scalable video infrastructure that can handle the demands of high-traffic applications but may have more limited scalability compared to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

  2. Integration with AWS: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is tightly integrated with the AWS ecosystem, making it easier to leverage other AWS services for various video processing tasks. Mux Video, however, does not have the same level of integration with AWS services, limiting the ease of integration with other AWS tools and services.

  3. Live Streaming Support: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams supports real-time live streaming, enabling users to stream video content to a large audience in real-time. Mux Video also supports live streaming, but the extent and capabilities of its live streaming features may differ from those provided by Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

  4. Customization Options: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams offers a wide range of customization options, allowing users to tailor the platform to their specific needs. Mux Video also provides customization capabilities, but the extent and granularity of customization options may differ from those offered by Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

  5. Pricing Structure: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams has a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where users are billed based on the duration of video ingested and processed. Mux Video, on the other hand, offers different pricing plans based on usage and features, which may have a different cost structure compared to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

In summary, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams provides scalable video streaming infrastructure with tight integration to the AWS ecosystem, extensive customization options, and support for real-time live streaming. Mux Video also offers scalable video infrastructure, but with potentially more limited scalability and integration options, and may have different pricing structures based on usage and features.

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We would like to connect a number of (about 25) video streams, from an Amazon S3 bucket containing video data to endpoints accessible to a Docker image, which, when run, will process the input video streams and emit some JSON statistics.

The 25 video streams should be synchronized. Could people share their experiences with a similar scenario and perhaps offer advice about which is better (Wowza, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams) for this kind of problem, or why they chose one technology over the other?

The video stream duration will be quite long (about 8 hours each x 25 camera sources). The 25 video streams will have no audio component. If you worked with a similar problem, what was your experience with scaling, latency, resource requirements, config, etc.?

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Amit Mor
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I have different experience with processing video files that I'll describe below. It might be helpful or at least make you think a bit diffferent about the problem. What I did (part of it is a mistake): To increase the level of parallelism at the time consuming step which was the video upload, using a custom cmd tool written in Python, I splitted the input videos to much smaller chunks (without losing their ordering - just file name labeling with timestamp) . It then uploaded the chunks to S3. That triggered a few Lambdas that each first pulled a chunked video, did the processing with ffmpeg (the Lambdas were the mistake - at that time the local Lambda storage was up to 512MB so lots of chunks and lots of Lambdas had to be in place, also Lambda are hell to debug), later called Rekognition and later using AWS Elemental MediaConvert to rebuild the full length video. I would use some sort of ECS deployment where processing is triggered by S3 event, and scale the number of Fargate nodes dependent on the number of chucks/videos. Then each processor pulls its video (not stream) to its local storage (local EBS drive) and works. I failed to understand why are you trying to stream videos that are basically static, as a file, or that putting the files on S3 is a current limitation (while your input videos are 'live' and streaming) that you're trying to remove ?

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What is Amazon Kinesis Video Streams?

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning (ML), and other processing. Kinesis Video Streams automatically provisions and elastically scales all the infrastructure needed to ingest streaming video data from millions of devices. It also durably stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in your streams, and allows you to access your data through easy-to-use APIs.

What is Mux Video?

It is an API-first platform, powered by data and designed by video experts to make the beautiful video possible for every development team.

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What are some alternatives to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and Mux Video?
OBS Studio
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