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Only hard problems are worth solving. I for one find it a very interesting field to be working in.

I am glad to hear that you are interested in your work, as pleasure in work can be hard to find. Apologies for being in a philosophical mood: I contemplated not responding, and responding otherwise, but finally thought that offering this anecdote might be interesting. Please, take from it what you will. A Buddhist I know said that the thing that troubled them about the digital media field was how it conflicted with t…

A good, thoughtful post. Cheers for it.

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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We're using Encoding.com right now which works off the AWS infrastructure. We pre-paid and got our pricing down to $0.018 per megabyte. The drawback to this method is that encoding charges you for MB in AND MB out, whereas Amazon and Zencoder are charging just by the minute of output. I'm pretty happy with Encoding.com but after running some test files through AWS, I have to seriously consider switching - AWS seems m…

EDIT: I made one of my typical decimal blunders - we are paying $0.0018 per megabyte. Big difference.
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