With the development of computer and network technology, the information presentation mode has developed from the original pure text to the multimedia direction of pictures, audio and video, and the Internet has entered the multimedia era. Due to the popularity of DV, mobile phones and other shooting terminals, as well as the development of broadband and hardware equipment, users' demand for Internet video has increased, and video development has diversified. According to statistics, there were only dozens of multimedia formats in 2003, and it has increased to nearly 300 in 2006. With the birth of various video and audio formats, universal players compatible with multiple formats have become the mainstream. As a representative of the universal player, Storm Video was born at this stage to meet the needs of the times, and achieved rapid development.
However, due to the rapid development of the Internet to the multimedia era, the universal player has encountered technical development bottlenecks while adapting to the trend. At present, the media players commonly used by users, Real, Storm Video 1.0. These players simply stack decoders to support multiple formats. Users open files and try them one by one, as long as they support them. There is no qualitative breakthrough in the original structure. The problem of slow technology update is more prominent among domestic players. Since 1998 introduced international leading technologies such as "Super Error Correction", the pace of product and technology update has slowed down. The cores of the three popular players mentioned above are all from abroad, and the domestic independent playback technology is insufficient.
Fang Wei, vice president of Stormwind Company, said that after Stormwind turned into a corporate operation, a professional R&D team headed by Chen Qingming was set up, including the establishment of a powerful media database, media monitoring channels and a document response team. The most professional media technical team in China, plus the accumulation of Storm Video for more than four years and the painstaking development of Chen Qingming and others in recent two years, Storm R&D team has overcome many technical development problems and made a revolutionary breakthrough in the broadcasting framework. As the first patented technology in the world, the framework of "MEE Media Expert Engine" is superior to the existing frameworks of Microsoft Media Player and Real and MPC kernel. Instead of simply overlapping decoders, we try to open the files one by one, but intelligently judge the video files and then match the most reasonable playback strategy, so as to realize more supported formats, with higher playback efficiency and better effect. Storm Video 2.0, as an automatically updated and vital software, provides users with a humanized and "one-stop" solution.
Fang Wei also said that in addition to the professional technical team, Storm Internet has also established a professional product marketing team, which will standardize product operation, comprehensively enhance product experience and brand image, and lead netizens into the multimedia era.
According to industry analysts, Storm Video 2.0 is the only software that matches the playback core and decoder after analyzing all the file sources, which just caters to the development needs of diversified video files and represents the development direction of future playback software. As the second player with independent technology in China after Hero, the introduction of the leading patented technology of "MEE Media Expert Engine" has also become a model of independent technology in China, which is of great significance to the development of broadcasting technology in China.