Qualified Video Delivery

A game serving system comprising:

• a first game application stored on a computer readable medium and configured to execute a first video game responsive to game commands received from a first client;
• a second game application stored on a computer readable medium and configured to execute a second game instance responsive to game commands received from a second client;
• logic configured to execute the first game instance and the second game instance in parallel;
• a first virtual 3D video driver configured to received a first game environment from the first game application;
• a second virtual 3D video driver configured to received second game environment from the second game application;
• a 3D video driver configured to receive an output of the first and second virtual 3D video drivers;
• a graphics processing unit configured to generate a first video stream by rendering the first game environment, and to generate a second video stream by rendering the second game environment, in parallel;
• a first encoding pipeline configured to encode the first video stream in a first codec;
• a second encoding pipeline configured to encode the second video stream in a second codec;
• and
• an output configured to provide the first video stream to the first client and the second video stream to the second client.

A game serving system comprising:

• a first game application stored on a computer readable medium and configured to execute a first game instance responsive to game commands received from a first client;
• a second game application stored on a computer readable medium and configured to execute a second game instance responsive to game commands received from a second client;
• logic configured to execute the first game instance and the second game instance in parallel;
• a 3D video driver configured to received different game environments from the first game application and from the second game application;
• a graphics processing unit configured to generate a first video frame by rendering the game environment from the first game application, and to generate a second video frame by rendering the game environment from the second game application;
• a first encoding pipeline configured to encode the first video frame in a first video format;
• a second encoding pipeline configured to encode the second video frame in a second video format;
• a memory shared by at least the 3D video driver and at least the first encoding pipeline;
• logic configured to transfer the first video frame from the 3D video driver to the shared memory in sync with the production of the second video frame;
• and
• an output configured to provide the first video stream to the first client and the second video stream to the second client.

A game serving system comprising:

• a first game application stored on a computer readable medium and configured to execute a first game instance responsive to game commands received from a first client;
• a second game application stored on a computer readable medium and configured to execute a second game instance responsive to game commands received from a second client;
• logic configured to execute the first game instance and the second game instance in parallel;
• logic configured to provision a first encoder pipeline and a second encoder pipeline, the first encoder pipeline including a dynamically allocated encoder selected based on needs of the first client, the second encoder pipeline including a dynamically allocated encoder selected based on needs of the second client;
• one or more processor configured to execute the logic configured to spawn a first encoder pipeline and a second encoder pipeline, the first game application, the second game application;
• and
• an output configured to provide
• a first video stream generated by the first encoder pipeline to the first client, and
• a second video stream generated by the second encoder pipeline to the second client.