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Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by biot » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:14 PM UTC

facorreia wrote: post #10

steeve wrote: post #2

Well well well, 2 weeks after Azure announces their transcoder, look what happens :)

I couldn't find a link to this announcement. Could you point me to it?

Announcement: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/22/microsoft-release...

Site: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/features/media-servic...

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by borplk » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:23 PM UTC

Damn pretty smart move.

They place themselves in the 'lowest common denominator' of the industry.

Whilst the smaller companies and startups compete and struggle to find the right combination of factors for their awesome video/web/cloud/storage/etc product at the end of the day they all need the same kind of thing to operate on and Amazon is often the cheapest option to start with and it serves the whole industry making little cents tick tick tick one after another...

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by d33pika » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:23 PM UTC

lusr wrote: post #20

d33pika wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am also curious about the how fast the AWS service will be. Zencoder is pretty fast. http://blog.zencoder.com/2011/10/18/zencoder-benchmarked-2x-...

I was under the impression Zencoder already runs on the AWS infrastructure: * https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/zencoder * http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/zencoder-raises-2m-for-cloud-ba...

Yes, they do,they use the cluster compute instances:http://blog.zencoder.com/2012/07/23/first-look-at-google-com... I doubt if amazon is going to use them.

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:25 PM UTC

facorreia wrote: post #10

steeve wrote: post #2

Well well well, 2 weeks after Azure announces their transcoder, look what happens :)

I couldn't find a link to this announcement. Could you point me to it?

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Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by hisyam » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:44 PM UTC

ireland wrote: post #18

I'm sorry to say this but doesn't this mean the end for Zencoder, TransLoadIT and other video encoding services?

Using that logic, all the other cloud storage services would be out of business right now.

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by Tekker » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:47 PM UTC

The Porn industry just took a huge step forward. :)

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by neotek » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:49 PM UTC

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.

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by level09 » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:55 PM UTC

Tekker wrote: post #26

The Porn industry just took a huge step forward. :)

Amazon doesn't allow porn content on its servers ..

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by donavanm » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:55 PM UTC

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.

Nope, video only. Audio is a logical step though. Go bug your friendly neighborhood rep/support person with a feature request.

Re: Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Post by ericcholis » Tue, Jan 29, 2013, 12:56 PM UTC

I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix assisted in this.