Streaming media server with network repeat function

Abstract

The invention relates to a streaming media server with the network repeat function, which comprises a host CPU, a bridge chip thereof, a multi-chip flash memory storage system, a device supporting the repeat function, a media repeat memory and a gigabit Ethernet network interface; and the streaming media server is characterized in that the device comprises a packet processing engine, a solid-state storage engine, a solid-state storage network interface module, a network interface module and a PCIe interface module, wherein the solid-state storage network interface module defines a data conversion structure from the media storage format to the network playing format, thereby realizing the network repeat function. The device in the streaming media server can lead the streaming media playingperformance of the streaming media server to achieve 10 times or more of that of the traditional streaming media server, simultaneously greatly reduce the running power consumption of the server, greatly improve the operation efficiency of an operator and the number of clients and reduce the operation cost of the operator.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a streaming media server, in particular to a streaming media server with a network direct playback function. Background technique [0002] With the continuous advancement of my country's broadband Internet construction and the continuous advancement of the network integration of three networks, more and more users have begun to use IP-based broadband services, and the broadband era of converged communications has arrived. This makes many IP-based multimedia services possible, such as broadband cinema, Internet TV, video conferencing, distance education, telemedicine, network video surveillance, online live broadcast system, etc. [0003] As the core technology of broadband services, streaming media technology has been greatly developed in recent years. Streaming media refers to the media form of transmitting audio, video and multimedia files in the network in a streaming manner. In the streaming media service system, the clien...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] At present, the main streaming media server adopts the traditional X86 architecture. With the rapid increase of network streaming media traffic, the traditional architecture encounters the following performance bottlenecks: the storage system is still based on the mechanical hard disk. Its structural weakness, the read and write speed is limited by the physical rotation speed of the disc and the read and write speed of the magnetic head, and there is also the problem of random read difficulty, which leads to the slow progress of its continuous read and write speed, which greatly lags behind the starting capacity Growth rate; in the X86 architecture, the network interface and the storage system are independent subsystems, and there is no direct playback channel for the two, so that a large amount of streaming media playback still passes through the main memory of the system, causing streaming media playback to greatly consume system resources and affect host performance.

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