With 5G Approaching, How will Audio/Video Technology that Serves 800 Million QQ Users Bring Forth New Ideas

Abstract

Back to 1999, a popular IM QQ in China, stilled called OICQ at that time, released a new version, which included the functionality of audio call for the first time. Not much time later, video call was also enabled. After 18 years of fast growing, QQ has 800 million monthly active users.QQ users spend 1.2 billion minutes for audio and video call every single day. With QQ's fast growing, the audio and video technology behind it also evolves tremendously. We build our own audio/video technology center, which grows to Tencent Audio/Video Lab, and develops our own SDK when OEM cannot meet our needs. The new generation of audio/video communication engine "SPEAR", developed by our own, serves 800 million QQ users today. Our web broadcasting solution serves China's 10 top web broadcasting platforms, with 200 million user base and 70% market share of China. With 5G approaching, how will audio/video technology that serves 800 million QQ users bring forth new ideas? In this presentation, I will firstly introduce how the audio/video technology develops in Tencent Audio/Video Lab while internet transferring from PC to mobile. Secondly, I will explain the capability of our technology in the field of audio/video web communication, web broadcasting and image/audio/video processing. Thirdly, I will present our new research results and how they are used in our products and services. Then, I will talk a little about our future plan.