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June 26th, 2026 Product

Introducing Client–Side Video Decoding

Decode on device, send understanding

Client-Side Video Decoding moves frame extraction to the device: cameras and browsers decode locally and stream compact frames to the List Cloud APIs, cutting upload bandwidth by an order of magnitude.

Remote sites on thin uplinks can now run real-time perception.

Introducing Client–Side Video Decoding
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Why decode on the edge

Raw video is heavy; understanding is light. Decoding where the pixels already are means the cloud receives exactly the frames the model needs — nothing more.

Adaptive frame selection

Motion-aware sampling keeps the interesting seconds at full rate and relaxes during quiet stretches, without losing event recall.

SDK support

Web, iOS, Android, and embedded Linux SDKs ship the decoder with three lines of integration code.