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What is the difference between MediaConvert and Amazon Elastic Transcoder (https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/ https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/)?
by spleak 9y ago
What is the difference between MediaConvert and Amazon Elastic Transcoder (https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/ https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/)?
They seem to overlap heavily or am I missing something?
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- schwank 9y agoElastic Transcoder could not handle 4K video, and only worked with static files stored in S3 - it wasn't designed for streaming content. AWS purchased Elemental in 2015. There is some overlap but Elemental Media* services are more flexible and provide JIT encoding and dynamic ad insertion, to serve a broader market than ET did. Disclaimer: AWS employee.
- nikolay 9y agoInstead of fixing Elastic Transcoder, there's yet another and better way of doing the old thing. Much similar to what happened with SimpleDB, OpsWorks, etc.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoThe alternative is shutting down your 1.0 when you release your 2.0. Keeping the 1.0 service running in maintenance mode seems pretty helpful to me.
- nikolay 9y agoNo, the alternative is a design pattern called Façade, i.e. having the new backend support the old API via a translation layer either in the SDKs or in the infrastructure layer.
- rloc 9y agoHLS, Smooth streaming, MPEG-Dash are all designed for streaming and that's what we use with Elastic Transcoder today. Used in conjunction with Amazon Cloudfront, I thought it was perfect for streaming content. Does that mean we'll need to manually transition to the new services ? Are you planning a bridge or something ? What about the cost of transcoding everything a second time ?
- colde 9y agoElastic Transcoder lacked a lot in support of a bunch of codecs and output formats, especially broadcast and movie formats where unsupported. With MediaConvert they are likely using the conversion engine they got when they acquired Elemental.