[Solution] Prepare your video for streaming with Segue

Abstract

Despite the focus of adaptive video streaming being predominantly placed on the bitrate adaptation algorithm, offline encoding that partitions a video into chunks to prepare for online streaming is also instrumental in the user's quality of experience (QoE). Segue dives into the off-the-beaten-path problem and makes a case for offline encoding optimization that accounts for both the playback context and the adaption algorithm. To materialize the idea, Segue explores different techniques for segmenting a video into variable lengths and augmenting parts of a video with additional bitrates. In doing so, Segue achieves encouraging QoE improvements and envisions a new thread of future work that co-designs offline encoding and online adaptation.