Category: Application Services

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 […]