METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR MEASURING UPLINK INGEST PERFORMANCE OF LIVE VIDEO CONTENT STREAMING

• Main Authors: Sen, Subhabrata, Zhu, Xiao, Mao, Zhuoqing Morley
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.04.2023

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining and decoding a video file to obtain raw frames, providing the raw frames to the virtual camera that generates video content from the raw frames, providing the video content to a broadcasting application on a first communication device that provides output frames, and providing network conditions that are applied to the output frames resulting in conditioned output frames. The conditioned output frames are provided to a video content server from the first communication device, the video content server provides ABR tracks to a second communication device, the ABR tracks are associated with the conditioned output frames in response to receiving requests for the ABR tracks. Also, embodiments include obtaining and analyzing the conditioned output frames, the ABR tracks, and the requests, and generating metrics associated with the broadcasting application based on the analysis. Other embodiments are disclosed.