Serving a video into an image carousel: system design and implementation

Even though video technologies have continuously advanced, playing a video still requires full length of the videos playtime, high volume of data traffic, and appropriate sound play devices. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a method to serve a video in an image carousel format. By providing multiple key frame images in carousel form with full script of the video, the proposed image carousel system transforms any playable video content into a readable form so that users can read the content rather than watch. Reading a video make consumers be freed from sound restrictions, and increase the potential and efficiency in the video linkage and usage in other services. In addition, this approach saves both playtime and data traffic. When a video encoded in H.264 codec with 720p resolution is transformed into the proposed image carousel form, in average 90---95 % of the data traffic were saved.