Processing of video operations as subtasks for video fragments

A method, implemented in a computing device comprising at least one hardware processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one hardware processor, the method comprising video processing operations that provide improved computing flexibility and fault tolerance, the method comprising:

• receiving a subtask of a video processing task from a coordinator computing system, the subtask comprising one or more operations of the video processing task, or instructions derived at least in part therefrom, and an identifier of a video fragment to be processed for the subtask;
• requesting at least the video fragment;
• receiving the at least the video fragment;
• executing the operations or instructions on the at least the video fragment;
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• encoding the at least the video fragment after, or in conjunction with, the executing the operations or instructions to provide a processed video fragment, thereby providing improved fault tolerance as compared with executing the video processing task as a single task.

One or more computer readable storage media comprising:

• computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system comprising at least one hardware processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one hardware processor, cause the computing system to receive a subtask of a video processing task for digital video file from a coordinator computing system, the subtask comprising one or more operations of the video processing task, or instructions derived at least in part therefrom, and a video fragment to be processed for the subtask;
• computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to execute the operations or instructions on the at least the video fragment;
• computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to encode the at least the video fragment after, or in conjunction with, the executing the operations or instructions to provide a processed video fragment, wherein the processed video fragment is streamable to a streaming client without further processing of the processed video fragment, thereby providing improved fault tolerance as compared with executing the video processing task as a single task and providing improved video quality;
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• computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to send the processed video fragment to a repository comprising other processed video fragments of the digital video file.