A server offloads graphics effects processing to a client device with graphics processing resources by determining a modification to a graphics effects operation, generating a portion of a rendered video stream using the modification to the graphics effects operation, and providing an encoded representation of the portion of the rendered video stream to the client device, along with metadata representing the modification implemented. The client device decodes the encoded representation to recover the portion of the rendered video stream and selectively performs a graphics effects operation on the recovered portion to at least partially revert the resulting graphics effects for the portion to the intended effects without the modification implemented by the server.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a transmission method for enabling transmission of content using a broadcast and a communication channel includes: transmitting playback control information and service information using at least the broadcast wave, the service information being information for playing back content transmission using the broadcast and content transmission using the communication channel when the content is transmitted using the broadcast and the communication channel. The service information includes attribute information indicating that the first content data and the second content data constitute the content and location information that indicates a location for acquiring meta-information on playback control of the second content. The playback control information includes indexes of a relationship between the first content data and the second content data.

The present disclosure has a configuration in which a distributor who performs a separate distribution that is different from this live content, or a viewer who views this separate distribution can participate in a virtual space and express intent or participate in visual recognition through the commitment of a virtual item.

Disclosed are a method, an apparatus and a smart mobile terminal for editing a video. The method includes: acquiring an editing instruction to be executed of a user; selecting frame images which indicate a duration of a video segment in a preset showing area based on the editing instruction; storing the video segment in a preset second storage area; storing a reserved video segment in a preset first storage area; rendering the frame images by invoking a preset rendering script for highlighting the frame images in the showing area; retrieving frames of the reserved video segment sequentially based on a preset first time span; determining scaled frames based on a preset scaling proportion and the frames; and arranging the scaled frames in the showing area sequentially in an order of retrieving for displaying frame images which indicates a duration of the reserved video segment in the showing area.

A video playing method, apparatus and electronic device. The method comprises: obtaining to-be-played video frames; inputting the obtained to-be-played video frames into a preset decoder, and decoding the to-be-played video frames by the preset decoder to obtain decoded to-be-played video frames; storing the decoded to-be-played video frames as texture data in a texture storage area of a graphic processing unit; determining, from the decoded to-be-played video frames stored in the texture storage area, a decoded to-be-played video frame that satisfies a rendering condition as a to-be-rendered video frame; rendering and the determined to-be-rendered video frames by the graphic processing unit and playing the rendered video frame. With the embodiments of the present application, rendering speed of a graphic processing unit (GPU) can be increased to a certain extent. Therefore, video playing performance of the electronic device can be improved.

A method and an apparatus for controlling a virtual object, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining an interactive operation in a virtual scene, the interactive operation being used for controlling a first virtual object to release a virtual prop at a target position; releasing the virtual prop at the target position, and displaying a target region triggered by the virtual prop in the virtual scene, the target region including the target position; and enhancing a target attribute of a virtual object in a first object group in the virtual scene in a case that the first virtual object is located in the target region, the first object group being an object group to which the first virtual object belongs.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communication technology. A method for DASH media streaming, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. A first MPD file, a media initialization file, and a first media slice file of a DASH media stream to be played are acquired from a server by sending at most two acquisition requests to the server. The media initialization file and the first media slice file are acquired through one of the at most two acquisition requests. Subsequent MPD files are requested from the server according to the first MPD file, and other media slice files in addition to the first media slice file are acquired from the server according to the subsequent MPD files.

A method including parsing a scene file to extract relevant scene file data; sending the relevant scene file data to a converter; translating, by the converter, the relevant scene file data into a format compatible with a respective rendering engine; mapping the translated scene file data using the respective rendering engine into a scene representation, wherein the scene representation is compatible with an Immersive Technologies Media Format (ITMF).

A method and an apparatus for processing a video are provided technology. The method may include: separating a foreground image and a background image from a video frame in the target video stream, in response to acquiring a target video stream; adding a to-be-displayed content at a target display position in the background image to obtain a processed background image; and combining the foreground image and the processed background image to obtain a target video frame. The present disclosure may directly render the to-be-displayed content in the background, so that the content displayed in the background does not block a body in the foreground, such as person.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, video frames over a network; the processing system uses a machine learning algorithm to identify in each frame a first region comprising a natural image and a second region comprising a synthetic graphic image. The processing system separates the natural image from the synthetic graphic image to generate a natural video and a graphics video, encodes the natural video, and processes the graphics video to generate instructions for rendering graphic images at a client system. The client system performs a decoding procedure for the encoded video, a rendering procedure for client-side graphics in accordance with the instructions, and a compositing procedure to obtain a presentable video stream including the natural image and a client-side graphic corresponding to the synthetic graphic image. Other embodiments are disclosed.