Recently, the giant panda Aibao, who lives in South Korea, has given birth to twins, and the news quickly became a hot search. Not only Aibao, Lebao, and Fubao, but also the cute domestic Huahua, the sunny and cheerful boy Xizhimen third prince Menglan, etc. have long occupied the hot search terms on major platforms. At the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, an endless stream of tourists waited in line for a long time in order to see the beauty of the "top female star" Huahua. According to public information, the top-ranking "Huahua" not only made giant pandas popular, but also made Chengdu the "City of Pandas".
When there is no way to see panda Huahua in person, is there any way to watch giant pandas in real time? At present, there are many zoos that broadcast live broadcasts of giant pandas, and the most convenient entrance is the iPanda channel. iPanda is the world's first 24-hour multi-channel high-definition giant panda live broadcast. At present, the entrances of five Chinese giant panda breeding bases (Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base, Dujiangyan Base, Wolong Shenshuping Base, Ya'an Bifengxia Base and Wolong Hetaoping Wild Training Base) are integrated here. With the panda's chubby figure, you can also see the cute little pandas in the garden.
Today let’s talk about the video technologies behind the live broadcast of giant pandas in the zoo.
The zoo's video live broadcast system usually uses security surveillance cameras + hard disk video recorders + edge gateways, connected to the cloud live broadcast platform, so as to realize real-time live broadcast of web pages, websites, WeChat, and APP.
The function of the front-end acquisition equipment is to collect audio and video in real time according to the needs. In order to facilitate local storage and supervision, it is connected to the local NVR hard disk video recorder, and then connects with the cloud live broadcast platform through a standard video transmission protocol, and pushes the stream to the cloud live broadcast platform in real time. , such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud and other mainstream cloud live broadcast platforms, release the concurrent pressure through the public cloud, realize the online viewing of videos on the entire network, and ensure the smoothness and stability of the video.
Generally speaking, the cloud live broadcast platform can gather a large number of front-end access devices of the zoo, such as surveillance cameras, hard disk video recorders, etc., and also has powerful video data processing and distribution capabilities, and can transcode and distribute the accessed video streams. There are many cloud live broadcast platforms, such as the EasyCVR video fusion platform, which can also meet the above live video requirements, and EasyCVR has richer and more flexible functions than other platforms on the market in terms of video capabilities.
1) Support multi-protocol
The platform can support multiple protocols (national standard GB/T28181, RTMP, RTSP/Onvif protocol, Hikvision Ehome, Hikvision SDK, Dahua SDK, Uniview SDK, Huawei SDK, EZVIZ SDK, Lecheng SDK), multi-device access , to achieve lightweight access to massive resources, unified device management, configuration control, and analysis applications.
2) Compatible with multiple devices
The platform has strong compatibility and can cover almost all video surveillance and other equipment on the market. In the implementation process of the live video project in the zoo, the existing equipment on site can be directly used and integrated into the entire network without a large number of replacement equipment, which not only simplifies the implementation process and difficulty of the system, greatly saves the system investment, but also improves the management And maintenance does not need to consume more energy.
3) Video multi-screen display
The video platform supports single-screen and multi-screen display, and any one or multiple video channels can be selected for viewing. The number of video windows is 1, 4, 9, and 16 optional. It also supports video tour playback, and can watch multiple scenes and multiple monitoring cameras. The daily life of giant pandas.
4) Support multi-terminal playback
The platform can support video stream output in standard formats such as RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WS-FLV, HLS, WebRTC, etc. Terminal and multi-platform video viewing are very convenient for the zoo to distribute video resources to multiple terminals. Users can also enjoy the cuteness of giant pandas anytime and anywhere through various smart devices and platforms.
5) Video recording/playback/storage
The platform can perform 7*24H recording according to business scenarios, supports cloud recording/device recording, and supports video retrieval and playback. Surveillance video recording data can be stored in a variety of ways, and the zoo can view and download video recordings at any time, which makes it very convenient for the zoo to use the video files as video materials for later publicity, and the utilization rate of the video is greatly improved.
The hot topic of cute giant pandas will last for a long time. Each zoo can refer to the method introduced in the article to build its own slow live video platform. In addition to giant pandas, other small animals can also be broadcast live. This can not only become a way for zoos to attract popularity, but also an effective means of publicity.