This solution provides a one-stop service for content production, media processing, content security, distribution, and playback. It is designed to help you improve production efficiency, deliver a smooth viewing experience, reduce traffic costs, and ensure data compliance for your short drama business.
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Prerequisites
Before you begin, review the following concepts:
What is a scenario-based solution?
A scenario-based approach involves designing and optimizing product features for specific use cases, such as short videos, short dramas, and feed streams, to align with user habits. The short drama solution is an example of this approach. It provides a complete, customized, and end-to-end technical solution that helps developers quickly implement short drama playback features and improve the user experience.
Solution advantages
Short dramas are a new content format characterized by short, fast-paced episodes with tight plots designed to keep users engaged. This format has quickly become a core content type on short video platforms.
However, the short drama industry faces several challenges, such as high costs, long production cycles, and complex scenarios. To address these challenges, Alibaba Cloud offers the AUI Kits short drama development suite. This suite uses modular feature design and low-code integration to provide an end-to-end solution with the following advantages:
Seamless client-cloud integration
The out-of-the-box AppServer enables dynamic interaction with the client. It supports core features such as local PlayAuth signing, private encryption, and adaptive bitrate streaming. This creates an efficient cloud-to-client technical ecosystem.
Intelligent production
AI-powered features such as online editing, video translation, and intelligent subtitling enable end-to-end content production for short dramas. This helps you expand your short drama business globally.
Maximum cost optimization
The solution provides a scenario-based Narrowband HD™ transcoding option tailored for short dramas. This feature produces more detailed video images and improves the visual experience. It also greatly reduces the video bitrate, which significantly reduces traffic costs.
Smooth playback experience
With over 3,200 points of presence (POPs) worldwide, the solution provides secure, stable, and reliable content delivery services. The ApsaraVideo Player SDK offers features such as instant playback from the first frame, adaptive bitrate streaming, and playback quality monitoring to ensure a high-quality viewing experience.
Video content security
Copyright is a core asset for short dramas, and financial losses can result from hotlinking and unauthorized playback. This solution provides comprehensive security support, including video file encryption, domain-based access control, and the anti-screen recording feature of the ApsaraVideo Player SDK. These features effectively reduce the risk of content theft.
Global business compliance
The solution holds over 130 compliance certifications worldwide, including regional, industry-specific, data protection, and privacy certifications. It is also certified for Level 3 protection by the Ministry of Public Security. Data and privacy handling procedures comply with local laws and regulations, ensuring the operational security of your business in China and globally.
Core features
In the following table, ✔️ indicates that the feature is supported, and ❌ indicates that it is not.
Feature | Description | Android | iOS | Flutter |
Content Production | Improve production efficiency with multi-device uploads, professional online editing, and intelligent production tools. Support global expansion with multilingual content. From a single video shoot, use AI for video translation, intelligent subtitling, and dubbing. This creates multilingual assets in one step to meet localization needs for overseas markets. | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Media asset management | Store, retrieve, and catalog audio and video content. The service ensures 99.995% data availability and security. Encrypt content to protect copyright. Manage your short drama assets in the cloud. | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Distribution and playback | Precise scheduling across over 3,200 POPs worldwide supports high-quality playback services in multiple overseas regions. The ApsaraVideo Player SDK provides best-practice parameter settings for short drama scenarios. It balances viewing experience and business costs through strategies like preloading, dynamic caching, and play-while-downloading. The out-of-the-box solution enhances the overall audio-visual experience. | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Data insights | Flexibly integrate with DataService Studio to build a complete data architecture. It provides over 20 Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE), and operational metrics, supporting multi-dimensional analysis. Single-point tracing helps locate the cause of playback anomalies. It supports Cloud Monitor and real-time log forwarding to help assess business conversion effectiveness. | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Security and compliance
The solution is certified for Level 3 protection by the Ministry of Public Security and holds over 130 global, regional, and industry-specific certifications for data protection and privacy. The ApsaraVideo Player SDK and its playback quality data services provide distinct modes for global and domestic use, securing your business operations both in China and internationally.