Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Post by pdknsk » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:58 PM UTC

  $0,030:
  1920 x 1080 @ 62500 kbps  
  ...  
  1280 x  720 @ 17500 kbps

Post by hartator » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 1:24 PM UTC

cwh wrote: post #33

neotek wrote: post #27

How about audio transcoding? At my music startup we're building a transcoding backend that will take in FLAC, AIFF, or WAV and spit out MP3, FLAC, AAC, ALAC, and OGG files for people to download, and I'd kill for a transcoding service with a robust API that can deliver those formts.

build it

Post by mikecane » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 1:37 PM UTC

zimbatm wrote: post #14

chrisacky wrote: post #7

It's quite an interesting business decision to jump into this market. Take Zencoder for example (which is one of my favourite players in this field)... if you are to compare the prices with say Zencoder [1] AWS is much more cost effective (by several factors). Even if you were operating at scale and spending $2000 per month with Zencoder, you would only get 50,000minutes worth of HD Video. (You pay 2 minutes worth of…

Not really. Amazon just builds what they need instead of depending on others and then sell it as a service to the larger market. Remember, they're playing for the long-run. Maybe they needed it to convert their videos on LoveFilm.com or maybe another future service connected with their Cloud Drive. What is also means is that if your company provides a service to other developers you might well be in competition with…

Post by stanleydrew » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 1:46 PM UTC

newhouseb wrote: post #15

chrisacky wrote: post #7

It's quite an interesting business decision to jump into this market. Take Zencoder for example (which is one of my favourite players in this field)... if you are to compare the prices with say Zencoder [1] AWS is much more cost effective (by several factors). Even if you were operating at scale and spending $2000 per month with Zencoder, you would only get 50,000minutes worth of HD Video. (You pay 2 minutes worth of…

Looking at the fact that you can do encoding across a lot of different regions seems to me to indicate that there isn't any special capabilities required for Amazon to implement this other than just a custom AMI. If I had to guess, this is all part of a strategy to figure out ways to utilize their idle fleet. Spot instances are often used for these sorts of batch offline compute-intensive jobs, but if you're a third…

Post by klinquist » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 1:48 PM UTC