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Kevin, thanks for the kind words. You're kinda right. A video site like YouTube has two stages to get your video up and running. First is the file upload. S
by stevepotter 16y ago
Kevin, thanks for the kind words. You're kinda right. A video site like YouTube has two stages to get your video up and running. First is the file upload. Second is the encoding, where the uploaded video is converted into the necessary formats for web and mobile playback. Zencoder covers the latter. They don't take part in the upload. So our upload remains the same...it's the step after upload that has been massively improved. I hope that makes sense.
Unless you are heavily involved in video, Zencoder won't apply to you. But they are still worth knowing about and a great example of a cutting edge cloud platform.
- kevinburke 16y agoHi Steve, That does make sense. I understand that I'm not the target audience, as well :-)
- Splines 16y agoHow large was your test video? 20 minutes to encode a 1 minute video feels like a really long time. My only experience with video encoding is place-shifting DVDs to my PSP. On my home box it's usually about a 1:1 ratio for this task. I'm guessing you've got a source with a really high bit-rate that's making the encoding take so long?