Category: Application Services

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Transcoding is the process of converting a media file (audio or video) from one format, size, or quality to another. Implementing a transcoding system on your own can be fairly complex. You might need to use a combination of open source and commercial code, and you’ll need to deal with scaling and storage. You’ll probably […]