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Category: Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Elastic Transcoder Update – Support for MPEG-DASH
Amazon Elastic Transcoder converts media files (audio and video) from one format to another. The service is robust, scalable, cost-effective, and easy to use. You simply create a processing pipeline (pointing to a pair of S3 buckets for input and output in the process), and then create transcoding jobs. Each job reads a specific file […]
Amazon Elastic Transcoder Update – PlayReady DRM Support for Smooth Streaming and HLS
My colleague Omid Behzadian sent a guest post to introduce an important new feature for Amazon Elastic Transcoder. — Jeff; You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to apply Microsoft PlayReady DRM protection to your Smooth Streaming and HLS outputs. When creating your transcoding job, simply include the encryption key and license server URL […]
Amazon Elastic Transcoder Update – New Formats & Conversion Controls
Amazon Elastic Transcoder converts (transcodes) media (video and audio) files into renditions optimized for playback on desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and televisions. Today, we are making Elastic Transcoder even more useful! We’ve added support for generating NTSC outputs (the television standard used in the United States and Canada), and PAL outputs (the standard used in […]
Elastic Transcoder Update – AES-128 Encryption for HLS Content
Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert media files in to versions that will play on smart phones, tablets, PCs, and smart TVs. As I have mentioned in the past, it takes care of all of the more tedious aspects of the media transcoding process on your behalf. You create a transcoding job and Elastic Transcoder […]
Audio Support for the Amazon Elastic Transcoder
The Amazon Elastic Transcoder gives you the power to convert or transcode media files from one format to another, making it possible for you to create files that are compatible with smart phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices without having to worry about servers, storage, scalability, or a host of other issues. We are adding […]
Amazon Cloud Drive Using Amazon Elastic Transcoder
You can now upload videos to your Amazon Cloud Drive and view them on your Kindle or your Android device. With support for a multitude of file formats and video codecs, implementing this feature from scratch would have been a lengthy and technically challenging undertaking. Cloud Drive already uses multiple AWS service, so using Amazon […]
Amazon Elastic Transcoder – Watermarking, Bit / Frame Rate Control
We added a big batch of features to the Amazon Elastic Transcoder just a couple of months ago. Let’ s do it again! Today we are adding three new features that will give you additional control of the appearance, bit rate, and frame rate of the videos that you transcode. As you can see from […]
New Features for the Amazon Elastic Transcoder
We released the Amazon Elastic Transcoder with an initial set of features and a promise to iterate quickly based on customer feedback. You’ve supplied us with plenty of feedback (primarily via the Elastic Transcoder Forum) and have a set of powerful enhancements ready as a result. Here’s what’s new: Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Support. […]