In today's digital age, video content has become an integral part of our online experience, disrupting several industries - from entertainment to education. This article explores how HLS and Video Transcoding work together behind the scenes to provide smooth video streaming to end users on their devices. WHAT IS HLS? HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) is a protocol developed by Apple for streaming live and on-demand content over the Internet. It works by breaking a video stream into a sequence of sma

Video streaming has become one of the most popular use cases of the internet over the last two decades, with a current market value of over $670 billion. In this write-up, we briefly highlight the challenges associated with traditional video streaming platforms and analyze how Web3 technologies can help to resolve them. Let's dive in: Since the early 2000s, video streaming has undergone significant transformations, moving from the basic distribution systems of the past to the sophisticated on

We are excited to announce our engagement with Sei Network, the fastest and first parallelized EVM Layer 1 blockchain - a hyper optimized execution layer that benefits from the tooling and mindshare around the EVM. Check it out on the AIOZ Network ecosystem: https://aioz.network/ This engagement will see the addition of AIOZ Network to the Sei Network ecosystem, making our infrastructure-as-a-service solutions easily accessible to builders on the Sei Network. With our extensive documentation

AIOZ DePIN is the heart of the AIOZ Network, providing valuable computing resources that help the network function as a one-stop solution for decentralized AI, Storage, and Streaming. In this write-up, we take a deep dive into AIOZ DePIN by through its recent developments and significance to the four infrastructure services on the AIOZ Network. Let's dive in: An AIOZ DePIN is defined as any computing device running the AIOZ DePIN App - a software that enables a device to contribute its resour

Transcoding is a process that converts video files from one format to another, ensuring compatibility across various digital devices and media platforms. This process is essential for efficiently delivering high-quality video content, whether for Video-on-Demand viewing or Live Streaming services. In this article, we analyze how transcoding works on the AIOZ DePIN v4.0 update and the benefits for Video-on-Demand and Streaming. How Transcoding Works on AIOZ DePIN v4.0 1. Task Reception: Ope

As 2024 becomes the "year of DePIN", we are excited to announce another collaboration that will see AIOZ Network infrastructure and tooling support budding developers and project teams in the industry. We're making access to DePIN tooling easy for Aptos developers, with the addition of AIOZ Network into the Aptos ecosystem. With AIOZ W3S (S3 compatible object storage), IPFS, VOD/streaming and web3 AI infrastructure all being unveiled this year, the budding Aptos developer community can now disc

Ever since the era of early digital computers like the UNIVAC, data storage has continuously evolved while serving as the irrefutable cornerstone of modern technology. To provide context, the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally reached 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 and is estimated to reach 180 zettabytes by 2025. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created/ In this article, we’ll explore the history of digital storage from physical h

AIOZ decentralizes media content delivery, reinventing the way Web3 media content is stored, delivered, and transcoded. Our global community of peer-to-peer nodes combines computing power to store, deliver, and transcode digital media. In exchange for contributing their computing resources to the AIOZ Web3 Content Delivery Network (CDN), these nodes are rewarded with AIOZ tokens. AIOZ DePIN Anyone can join in powering the AIOZ Web3 CDN on their device using the AIOZ Node app. Any user with a

AIOZ Network’s decentralized Content Delivery Network (dCDN) According to our most recent on-chain data, the AIOZ Network currently has over 36,000 nodes worldwide, with around 14,000 nodes in Europe, 11,679 nodes in Asia, and 7,500 nodes in South America. From March 1, 2021, to December 25, 2021, AIOZ Network’s decentralized content delivery network (dCDN) delivered a total of 270,000 videos equivalent to 841 TB and a collective storage capacity of more than 110 TB, over 18 million segments. T

AIOZ Network is a Layer-1 Inter-Operable Multi-Chain Web3 Content Delivery Network powered by Peer-to-Peer Edge Nodes. According to our latest on-chain data, the AIOZ Network presently has over 36,000 edge nodes, up to 15,000 unique daily visitors viewing AIOZ Tube, over 270,000 videos uploaded, more than 110 TB of storage space, and over 18 million segments stored. These figures indicate the rapid and consistent expansion of the AIOZ Network ecosystem. After extensive periods of coding, inten

We have a piece of great news this week; we are incredibly excited to announce that AIOZ is collaborating with the University of Liverpool’s talented researchers to do studies and build AI solutions for AIOZ Network. Founded in 1881 as one of the six original ‘red brick’ universities, the University of Liverpool is located in Liverpool, one of the UK’s leading research-intensive educational institutions. Liverpool is a member of Russell Group, the N8 Group of the UK’s leading research universit

Improving AIOZ Network is a technical endeavor that requires innovative approaches to create solutions that allow it to scale and handle large amounts of data while remaining decentralized. HLS and MPEG-DASH video streaming protocols have become so popular that they have become ubiquitous on almost any online video streaming platform. Both protocols have one thing in common: the videos are required to be segmented into many small chunks with a duration of a few seconds. For example, a 2-hour m