Kingsoft Cloud Live Service

Kingsoft Cloud Live Service (KLS) is a professional one-stop live streaming service. Backed by the IaaS infrastructure of Kingsoft Cloud, KLS uses powerful codec and content delivery technologies in the industry to provide you with stable, smooth, and high-concurrency services.
Benefits
Functions
Releases
Scenarios

Benefits

Ultra-high Definition Transcoding

Uses the self-developed KSC265 codec technology to greatly improve the image quality without increasing the bitrate and bandwidth, creating better watching experience.

One-stop Service

Provides comprehensive API operations to satisfy diverse live streaming demands in various industries, such as e-commerce, entertainment, online education, gaming, finance, and major sporting events.

Full-link Data Analysis

Collects and analyzes data in the full link of KLS in real time, including the bandwidth and traffic usage of live streaming, the number of concurrent requests, and the resource usage of different functions. This facilitates dynamic tuning for optimizing watching experience.

Functions

KSC265

KSC265 is a professional commercially-available H.265 solution that supports higher image quality with reduced lags at the same bitrate, reducing the bandwidth cost.

Live Transcoding

KLS provides flexible and easy-to-use templates for real-time audio and video transcoding, push and pull stream transcoding, and watermark customization and supports distributed transcoding clusters. You can use them as required to effectively reduce the cost.

Live Stream Recording

KLS provides flexible methods for you to record live streams in real time. You can record a live video as a whole or only record the video clips that you want. The recorded videos can be used for on-demand playback in the future. In addition, KLS automatically splices interrupted live videos during recording.

Audio and Video Processing

KLS supports audio effects such as timbre changes, pitch changes, reverberation, and stereo, and video effects such as facial recognition, beautification, and filters. KLS provides open API operations that allow you to customize parameters for ease of use.

Anti-Leech, Authentication, and HTTPS

KLS supports various authentication methods for you to choose from based on your business needs. This greatly improves the security of your live streaming service. KLS also supports HTTPS, which can protect enterprise resources with Anti-Leech.

Video Streams Management

KLS allows you to query the duration and other information of the current streams, historical streams, and push streams (whether they are forwarded or not). You can also quickly ban a stream by adding it to the blacklist.

Live Streaming Access

KLS supports uplink acceleration in a weak network environment to reduce lags and synchronize the sound and images in push streams. You can also push streams based on RTMP and forward live streams in different ways.

Excellent Watching Experience

KLS supports multi-terminal players and VR playback. In addition, KLS has many features to guarantee quick response and smooth playback, such as one second ATF, controllable low latency, real-time lag monitoring, low-power-consumption playback, intelligent caching, and self-adaptive switching between software and hardware decoding.

Releases

1

Live Video Review

Allows you to review live videos within 7 days.
2018-08-30
New Features
2

DASH standard

Supports DASH protocol.
2018-12-07
New Features
3

Domain Name Enabling and Disabling

Allows you to enable and disable domain names.
2018-12-24
New Features

Scenarios

Live Game Streaming

Shows

Online Education

Broadcasting&Television

Live Game Streaming

The gaming industry can use the functions of KLS, such as uplink acceleration, high-quality real-time transcoding, and accelerated content delivery, to share live videos all around the world with low latency and reduced lags.

Scenarios

Live game streaming that requires high bitrate and excellent fluency.

Shows

KLS supports one-second ATF, custom watermarks, smart pornography detection, and quick banning of live streams, helping you easily get started with live streaming and enhance your popularity, avoid undesirable content, and enliven the atmosphere during live streaming.

Scenarios

Talk shows and live streaming for chatting and singing

Online Education

KLS supports BGP multipath, load balancing, cloud storage, dynamic authentication, and Anti-Leech to guarantee low latency, reduced lags, and safe and clean live broadcast environments for teaching and learning.

Scenarios

K-12 teaching, in-service training, and training of enterprises and institutions.

Broadcasting and Television Media

KLS provides a live streaming platform applicable for broadcasting news, sporting events, and shows, and supports time-shifting, live video review, and dynamic multi-bitrate switching.

Scenarios

Live streaming of evening parties and large-scale sporting events broadcast by the television media industry.