Customers are charged based on the number of minutes they need to transcode and the selected resolution.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
It also supports pre-defined transcoding presets that make it easy to transcode video for smartphones, tablets, web browsers and other devices.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
Microsoft, you have got to make it easier to transcode into WMV.
Using transcoding pipelines, customers can configure Amazon Elastic Transcoder to transcode their files when and how they want, so they can efficiently and seamlessly scale for spikey workloads.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
One other unused feature is the server's ability to transcode.
Instead of a one-hour movie taking literally an entire weekend to transcode and record onto your DVD, we can take that hour movie and transcode it into the DVD in maybe half an hour.
"Our customers told us that it was difficult and expensive to transcode video due to the explosion in the number of devices they need to support, " said Charlie Bell, Vice President of Utility Computing Services.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
"If you are an insurance company and are starting a service for your claims adjusters, the Services Delivery Platform software stack will know how to integrate it with your existing e-business infrastructure, transcode it, and deliver content to these in-car devices, " Desai said.
Now we come to find out some even worse news about CableCARD and Vista: not only will you not be able to re-stream your high def media to other Windows machines (sorry, Vista capable Media Center Extenders only, i.e. the Xbox 360, and not much else), you won't even be able to transcode and sync to your PMC or other devices, as is currently possible.
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