CN213126279U - Audio and video transcoding blade device - Google Patents

Abstract

The application relates to an audio and video transcoding blade device. Wherein, this audio frequency and video transcoding blade device includes: the device comprises a data communication module, a first COMe module, a second COMe module and a routing module; the data communication module is coupled to the routing module, and the routing module is respectively coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module; the first COMe module and the second COMe module are configured to be different IP addresses; the routing module is used for distributing the data stream output by the data communication module between the first COMe module and the second COMe module according to a preset routing rule. By the method and the device, the problem of low computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is solved, and the computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is improved.

Description

Audio and video transcoding blade device

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of computers, in particular to an audio and video transcoding blade device.

Background

With the rapid development of the mobile internet, video related services have been increased explosively, such as typical "live internet broadcasting, on demand", "remote education", "video conference", and the like, and have become the mainstream of mobile internet services. With the development of services, the volume of video data streams (data streams include video data and audio data) is also increasing, and one important link in video services is video data stream transcoding (video transcoding for short). The video transcoding refers to converting a source video stream into a target video stream in a specific format meeting business requirements, and in a broad sense, all operations on the video stream can be regarded as video transcoding, such as embedding icons and watermark information in the video stream, recoding the video stream, modifying a code rate, a frame rate and a resolution ratio, and the like. As the amount of data fluid of video services is larger and larger, and resources required by data stream transcoding processing for background services are more and more, the traditional blade server architecture cannot meet the increasing video transcoding service requirements.

In the related art, the transcoding performance of the data stream is improved by adding one GPU chip in a blade server. However, the inventor finds in the research process that the scheme in the related art has the problem of low computational efficiency of data stream transcoding.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The embodiment of the application provides an audio and video transcoding blade device, which is used for at least solving the problem of low audio and video transcoding calculation efficiency in the related technology.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an audio and video transcoding blade apparatus, in some embodiments, the audio and video transcoding blade apparatus includes: the device comprises a data communication module, a first COMe module, a second COMe module and a routing module; wherein the data communication module is coupled to the routing module, and the routing module is respectively coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module; the first COMe module and the second COMe module are configured to be different IP addresses; and the routing module is used for distributing the data stream output by the data communication module between the first COMe module and the second COMe module according to a preset routing rule.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: a detection module and an alarm module, the detection module coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module, the alarm module coupled to the detection module; the detection module is used for detecting whether the transcoding capacity value of the first COMe module or the second COMe module for transcoding the data stream is larger than a preset threshold value or not, and generating alarm information under the condition that the transcoding capacity value of the first COMe module or the second COMe module for transcoding the data stream is larger than the preset threshold value; and the alarm module is used for giving an alarm according to the alarm information.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: a routing rule configuration module coupled to the routing module; the routing rule configuration module is used for generating preset routing rules corresponding to the IP addresses of the first COMe module and the second COMe module according to input operation of a user and sending the preset routing rules to the routing module.

In some embodiments, the data stream includes video data and audio data, the first COMe module and the second COMe module each include an audio-video transcoding processor, the audio-video transcoding processor is coupled to the routing module, wherein the audio-video transcoding processor includes: a CPU and a GPU, the CPU coupled to the GPU and the routing module, respectively; the CPU is used for acquiring the data stream distributed by the routing module, performing audio transcoding on audio data in the data stream, and sending video data to the GPU for video transcoding.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade device further includes a BMC management chip, and the audio/video transcoding processor is configured to perform BMC health management on the audio/video transcoding blade device through the BMC management chip.

In some embodiments, the data communication module comprises at least one of: SFP interface, RJ-45 interface.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: an HDMI interface and a display module, the display module coupled to the HDMI interface, the HDMI interface coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module; the display module is used for acquiring the transcoded data streams of the first COMe module and the second COMe module through the HDMI, and displaying the transcoded data streams.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: a printing module coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module, wherein the printing module is used for printing and saving logs generated by the first COMe module or the second COMe module in the process of transcoding the data stream.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: and the restarting module is used for restarting the audio and video transcoding blade device.

In some of these embodiments, the routing module comprises: switch chip.

Compared with the related art, the audio and video transcoding blade device provided by the embodiment of the application. Wherein, audio frequency and video transcoding blade device includes: the device comprises a data communication module, a first COMe module, a second COMe module and a routing module; the data communication module is coupled to the routing module, and the routing module is respectively coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module; the first COMe module and the second COMe module are configured to be different IP addresses; the routing module is used for distributing the data stream output by the data communication module between the first COMe module and the second COMe module according to a preset routing rule. By the method and the device, the problem of low computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is solved, and the computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is improved.

The details of one or more embodiments of the application are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below to provide a more thorough understanding of the application.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the application and together with the description serve to explain the application and not to limit the application. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a block diagram of an audio/video transcoding blade apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a block diagram of an audio/video transcoding blade apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of processing a data stream by an audio/video transcoding blade device according to a preferred embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the present application will be described and illustrated below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments provided in the present application without any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present application.

It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only examples or embodiments of the present application, and that it is also possible for a person skilled in the art to apply the present application to other similar contexts on the basis of these drawings without inventive effort. Moreover, it should be appreciated that in the development of any such actual implementation, as in any engineering or design project, numerous implementation-specific decisions must be made to achieve the developers' specific goals, such as compliance with system-related and business-related constraints, which may vary from one implementation to another.

Reference in the specification to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the specification. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Those of ordinary skill in the art will explicitly and implicitly appreciate that the embodiments described herein may be combined with other embodiments without conflict.

Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms referred to herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs. Reference to "a," "an," "the," and similar words throughout this application are not to be construed as limiting in number, and may refer to the singular or the plural. The present application is directed to the use of the terms "including," "comprising," "having," and any variations thereof, which are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions; for example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or modules (elements) is not limited to the listed steps or elements, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Reference to "connected," "coupled," and the like in this application is not intended to be limited to physical or mechanical connections, but may include electrical connections, whether direct or indirect. The term "plurality" as referred to herein means two or more. "and/or" describes an association relationship of associated objects, meaning that three relationships may exist, for example, "A and/or B" may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship. Reference herein to the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like, are merely to distinguish similar objects and do not denote a particular ordering for the objects.

The embodiment provides an audio and video transcoding blade device. Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an audio/video transcoding blade apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 1, the audio/video transcoding blade apparatus includes: the system comprises a data communication module 10, a first COMe module 30, a second COMe module 40 and a routing module 20; the data communication module 10 is coupled to the routing module 20, and the routing module 20 is respectively coupled to the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40; the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 are configured to be different IP addresses; the routing module 20 is configured to distribute the data stream output by the data communication module 10 between the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 according to a preset routing rule.

The COMe module can be a multifunctional COMe carrier board, supports standard Tpye6 COMe, and can provide 4 network ports, 4 serial ports, and various interfaces such as VGA (Video Graphics Array), DIV (Digital Video Interface), LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling), and the like; in addition, 3 paths of synchronous acquisition are provided, wherein the first two paths of ADCs can be configured to be asynchronous acquisition, each path can be configured to be at most 8 channels, all the channels are differential input, and 16-bit ADCs are provided; 4 paths of analog quantity independent outputs, 16-bit DAC; 32-way general I/O port; a 6-way multifunctional counter; two groups of completely isolated CAN buses (Controller Area networks) CAN be widely applied to various measurement and control systems.

In this embodiment, a mode of interconnecting the first COMe module 30, the second COMe module 40 and the routing module 20 and distributing the data stream to the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 according to a preset routing rule is adopted, so that the beneficial effect of parallel processing of the data stream by the multiple COMe modules is realized, the information and operation processing capability of the audio/video transcoding blade device is greatly improved, the problem of low computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is solved, and the computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is improved.

It should be noted that the number of the first COMe module and the second COMe module can be configured by the user.

In some of these embodiments, routing module 20 may be a switch chip.

In this embodiment, the switch chip may allow address learning, which is to establish a correspondence between a port of the switch chip and a physical address. The exchange chip establishes a corresponding relation between a preset exchange chip port and a preset physical address through address learning, and stores the corresponding relation between the preset exchange chip port and the physical address into a preset address query table. And the audio and video transcoding blade device determines the port information of the switching chip of the local terminal based on the physical address of the sending terminal and a preset address lookup table. Through the switch exchange chip, the routing module 20 can distribute the data stream output by the data communication module 10 between the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 according to the preset routing rule.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the present invention is not limited to the switch chip, and may be other switch chips capable of implementing the present solution.

In some embodiments, the data stream includes video data and audio data, and each of the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 includes an audio/video transcoding processor coupled to the routing module 20, where the audio/video transcoding processor includes: a CPU and a GPU, the CPU being coupled to the GPU and the routing module 20, respectively; the CPU is configured to obtain the data stream distributed by the routing module 20, perform audio transcoding on audio data in the data stream, and send video data to the GPU for video transcoding. In this embodiment, the audio transcoding of the audio data by the CPU and the video transcoding of the video data by the GPU are implemented, so that the audio/video transcoding blade device is compatible with the CPU calculation and the GPU calculation. Meanwhile, the GPU is adopted for video transcoding, and the calculation load of the CPU can be reduced.

It should be noted that the audio/video transcoding processor in this embodiment may be an Intel Xeon Mobile series processor. In some embodiments, other processors may also be capable of implementing the present solution.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade device further includes a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) Management chip, and the audio/video transcoding processor is configured to perform BMC health Management on the audio/video transcoding blade device through the BMC Management chip. In this embodiment, the BMC management chip may implement functions of fault reporting, power-on self-test, and running state self-test of the audio/video transcoding blade device, and may further output information such as current, voltage, main chip temperature, operating system, version, and firmware version to the software interface of the user software.

In some embodiments, the data communication module 10 may include at least one of: SFP interface, RJ-45 interface. The acquisition of the data stream can be realized through an SFP (Small Form-factor plug) interface or an RJ-45 interface. In some embodiments, the data communication module 10 may also be a backplane, and the backplane is provided with a corresponding SFP interface, RJ-45 interface, or other data communication interface.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: an HDMI interface and a display module, the display module being coupled to the HDMI interface, the HDMI interface being coupled to the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40; the display module is used for acquiring the transcoded data streams of the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 through the HDMI interface, and displaying the transcoded data streams. In this way, display of the transcoded data streams can be achieved for the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40, facilitating user monitoring of the transcoded data streams.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: and the printing module is coupled to the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 and is used for printing and storing the logs generated by the first COMe module 30 or the second COMe module 40 in the process of transcoding the data stream. In this embodiment, by means of printing and storing the logs generated by the first COMe module 30 or the second COMe module 40 in the process of transcoding the data stream by the printing module, it is convenient for a user to view the logs generated in the process of transcoding the stream at a later stage.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: and the restarting module is used for restarting the audio and video transcoding blade device.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: the detection module is coupled to the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40, and the alarm module is coupled to the detection module; the detection module is used for detecting whether the transcoding capability value of the transcoded data stream of the first COMe module 30 or the second COMe module 40 is greater than a preset threshold value or not, and generating alarm information when the transcoding capability value of the transcoded data stream of the first COMe module 30 or the second COMe module 40 is greater than the preset threshold value; and the alarm module is used for giving an alarm according to the alarm information.

In this embodiment, the detection module may generate the alarm information when detecting that the transcoding capability value of the transcoded data stream of the first COMe module 30 or the second COMe module 40 is greater than the preset threshold, and the alarm module notifies the alarm information to the user, so that the user performs a corresponding emergency operation according to the alarm information, which may prevent the first COMe module 30 or the second COMe module 30 from being in a load calculation state, and reduce the service life of the first COMe module 30 or the second COMe module 40.

In some embodiments, the audio/video transcoding blade further comprises: a routing rule configuration module coupled to the routing module 20; the routing rule configuration module is configured to generate a preset routing rule corresponding to the IP addresses of the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 according to an input operation of a user, and send the preset routing rule to the routing module 20. In this embodiment, by setting the routing rule configuration module, the user can configure the preset routing rule in the routing module 20. Meanwhile, in some embodiments, the change of the preset routing rule can also be realized.

In some embodiments, in addition to generating the preset routing rule corresponding to the IP addresses of the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40 according to the input operation of the user, the preset routing module 20 may be generated by the first COMe module 30 directly according to the IP addresses of the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40. Namely, the first COMe module 30 obtains the IP addresses of the first COMe module 30 and the second COMe module 40, and then performs routing rule configuration on the routing module 20 according to the IP addresses.

The description and illustrations below refer to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.

Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an audio/video transcoding blade apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2, the audio/video transcoding blade apparatus mainly includes: four COMe modules (i.e., COMe #1 (first COMe module), COMe #2 (second COMe module), COMe #3 (second COMe module), COMe #4 (second COMe module)), a Switch exchange chip (routing module), two SFPs (SFPs are Interface devices for converting gigabit electric signals into optical signals), four HDMI modules (High Definition Multimedia Interface), two USB (universal serial bus) for specifying the connection and communication of a computer and an external device, a Switch USB HOST, four RJ-45, one Mgmt (network Management port), one printer module, one reset module, a backplane, a detection module (not shown in fig. 2), an ipm alarm module (not shown in fig. 2), a routing rule configuration module (not shown in fig. 2), pcie (peripheral Component), an express, and a routing module (b for) bus, FCH (Facsimile Channel handling) and BCH (broadcast Channel). Each of the COMe modules includes: intel Xeon Mobile family processors (including CPU and GPU), memory (not shown), BMC management chip, CM236 chip, and M.2 (responsible for COMe internal data storage). The four COMe modules are all connected with a Switch chip, and the Switch chip is also connected with an SFP interface, an RJ-45 interface and a backboard (ZONE1, ZONE 2). Wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the Intel Xeon Mobile series processor (audio and video transcoding processor) comprises a CPU and a GPU, wherein the CPU part is responsible for audio transcoding, and the GPU part is responsible for video transcoding.

And the BMC management chip is responsible for health management of COMe.

And M.2, the internal data storage of the COMe module is responsible.

And the Switch switching chip is responsible for interconnection among four COMe modules and data interaction between COMe and the outside (connected to SFP, RJ45 and a backboard), and has a bandwidth of 40G.

SFP, RJ-45 (data communication module) for the interaction of external data (data stream) and COMe.

Switch USB HOST, Switch USB to some COMe module.

Mgmt, network management port, (Switch over to a certain COMe module via Switch USB HOST).

The Console (printing module) is used for printing serial port information, namely printing logs generated by the first COMe module or the second COMe module in the process of transcoding the data stream.

And a Reset (restarting module) for restarting the audio/video transcoding blade device.

The IPMB, an intelligent platform management bus, is a general term for two sets of redundant I2C buses for communication between FRU backplanes of an atca (advanced Telecom Computing architecture) advanced Telecom Computing platform.

PCIe, high speed serial computer expansion bus standard.

FCH, frame control channel.

BCH, broadcast channel.

The audio/video transcoding blade device in this embodiment can concurrently process transcoding of 72 channels of 1080P 30 frame h.264 or 28 channels of 1080P 30 frame h.265, and can also concurrently process transcoding of 320 channels of audio. The problem of low computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is solved, and the computational efficiency of data stream transcoding is improved.

Meanwhile, the embodiment of the application is different from a traditional blade server system structure taking a CPU as a center, and provides the audio and video transcoding blade device which is low in cost and high in density, and can support both CPU calculation and GPU calculation. In the embodiment of the application, the information and operation processing capacity of the audio and video transcoding blade device is greatly improved by adopting a mode of interconnecting four Intel Xeon Mobile series processors and a Switch exchange chip. Meanwhile, the problem of low floating point arithmetic capability of a general processor in the traditional server architecture can be avoided. In addition, the embodiment of the application can also achieve the beneficial effect of reducing the cost by adopting an Intel Xeon Mobile series processor.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of processing a data stream by an audio/video transcoding blade device according to a preferred embodiment of the present application, where the flowchart includes, as shown in fig. 3:

step S301, configuring different IP addresses for the four COMe modules by the user (for example, configuring COMe #1 with IP address 192.168.180.11, COMe #2 with IP address 192.168.180.12, etc.)

Step S302, a routing rule configuration is performed on the Switch chip through an Intel Xeon Mobile processor in the COMe #1 module (i.e. the configuration is performed according to a pre-configured IP address), that is, a data flow is allocated to a forwarding rule of different COMe modules (the routing rule is IP address distribution).

In this embodiment, in addition to performing routing rule configuration (i.e., performing configuration according to a pre-configured IP address) on the Switch chip through the Intel Xeon Mobile processor in the COMe #1 module, a user may also perform configuration according to the routing rule configuration module.

In step S303, the Switch chip obtains data stream through RJ-45, SFP or back plane.

Step S304, the Switch exchange chip distributes the data stream to the Intel Xeon Mobile series processor of the corresponding COMe module according to the routing rule (i.e. IP address distribution) configured by the COMe #1 module.

Step S305, the Intel Xeon Mobile series processor carries out preprocessing analysis on the received data stream, the preprocessing analysis is that the Intel Xeon Mobile series processor copies the video data in the data stream to a GPU chip for transcoding processing, and the Intel Xeon Mobile series processor directly carries out transcoding processing on the audio data in the data stream.

Step S306, the Intel Xeon Mobile series processor transmits the audio data after transcoding and the video data after transcoding by the GPU back to the external device through the Switch exchange chip.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present application, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the concept of the present application, which falls within the scope of protection of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. An audio/video transcoding blade apparatus, comprising: the device comprises a data communication module, a first COMe module, a second COMe module and a routing module; wherein the data communication module is coupled to the routing module, and the routing module is respectively coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module; the first COMe module and the second COMe module are configured to be different IP addresses; and the routing module is used for distributing the data stream output by the data communication module between the first COMe module and the second COMe module according to a preset routing rule.

2. The audio/video transcoding blade device of claim 1, wherein the audio/video transcoding blade device further comprises: a detection module and an alarm module, the detection module coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module, the alarm module coupled to the detection module; the detection module is used for detecting whether the transcoding capacity value of the first COMe module or the second COMe module for transcoding the data stream is larger than a preset threshold value or not, and generating alarm information under the condition that the transcoding capacity value of the first COMe module or the second COMe module for transcoding the data stream is larger than the preset threshold value; and the alarm module is used for giving an alarm according to the alarm information.

3. The audio/video transcoding blade device of claim 1, wherein the audio/video transcoding blade device further comprises: a routing rule configuration module coupled to the routing module; the routing rule configuration module is used for generating preset routing rules corresponding to the IP addresses of the first COMe module and the second COMe module according to input operation of a user and sending the preset routing rules to the routing module.

4. The audio/video transcoding blade device of claim 1, wherein the data stream comprises video data and audio data, the first COMe module and the second COMe module each comprise an audio/video transcoding processor, the audio/video transcoding processor coupled to the routing module, wherein the audio/video transcoding processor comprises: a CPU and a GPU, the CPU coupled to the GPU and the routing module, respectively; the CPU is used for acquiring the data stream distributed by the routing module, performing audio transcoding on audio data in the data stream, and sending video data to the GPU for video transcoding.

5. The audio/video transcoding blade device of claim 4, wherein the audio/video transcoding blade device further comprises a BMC management chip, and the audio/video transcoding processor is configured to perform BMC health management of the audio/video transcoding blade device through the BMC management chip.

6. The audio-video transcoding blade device of claim 1, wherein the data communication module comprises at least one of: SFP interface, RJ-45 interface.

7. The audio/video transcoding blade device of claim 1, wherein the audio/video transcoding blade device further comprises: an HDMI interface and a display module, the display module coupled to the HDMI interface, the HDMI interface coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module; the display module is used for acquiring the transcoded data streams of the first COMe module and the second COMe module through the HDMI, and displaying the transcoded data streams.

8. The audio/video transcoding blade device of claim 7, wherein the audio/video transcoding blade device further comprises: a printing module coupled to the first COMe module and the second COMe module, wherein the printing module is used for printing and saving logs generated by the first COMe module or the second COMe module in the process of transcoding the data stream.

9. The audio/video transcoding blade device of claim 1, wherein the audio/video transcoding blade device further comprises: and the restarting module is used for restarting the audio and video transcoding blade device.

10. The audio-video transcoding blade device of claim 1, wherein the routing module comprises: switch chip.

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