It also offers more choices to premium content owners for their professional content production encoding and transcoding needs.
Smaller companies such as EveryPath, Aether Systems and Marbles also offer software for transcoding data for wireless devices.
Marco: We have full transcoding built into it, you'll be able to see relevant web results as well.
Third, to accommodate peak workloads, customers need to provision the transcoding capacity appropriately.
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There is no need to buy, configure or manage the underlying transcoding software.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
In March, IBM released software called WebSphere Transcoding Publisher, which transforms content to match the capabilities of mobile devices.
First, customers need to buy and manage transcoding software, which can be expensive and also requires substantial configuration and management.
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder removes the need to manage infrastructure and transcoding software, providing scalability and performance by leveraging AWS services.
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
So in an attempt to bring the entire Media Center experience to the extenders it appears Microsoft has added native transcoding.
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"Transcoding will play a bigger role, " said Mr Erensen, referring to the potentially real-time transfer of one format to another.
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The service also enables customers to process multiple files in parallel and organize their transcoding workflow using a feature called transcoding pipelines.
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The service manages all aspects of the transcoding process transparently and automatically.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
If Microsoft wants to limit its devices to WMV-only, it's got to step up to the plate and deliver some consumer-level transcoding tools.
Traditionally, transcoding has been complex for customers in three significant ways.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
Even Microsoft's own tools display an abysmal lack of transcoding competence.
First, Microsoft needs to incorporate on-the-fly transcoding into Windows Media Player.
Unlike DivX, whose presence is nearly ubiquitous in both the torrent world and the transcoding world, WMV transcoding is often ignored by the most popular transcoding programs.
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
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon Elastic Transcoder, a highly scalable service for transcoding video files between different digital media formats.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
Chaitanya Kanojia, Aereo's chief executive, said Aereo's smooth play is due in part to the company building its own transcoding system, and there's no buffering or caching of content.
The ioFX is also designed to accelerate video playback and rendering, video and image editing and compositing, encoding and transcoding as well as other data-intensive activities required in contemporary digital production.
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The service also supports custom presets (pre-defined settings made by the customer), making it easy for customers to create re-useable transcoding settings for their unique requirements such as a specific video size or bitrate.
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For example, a news organization may want to have a "high priority" transcoding pipeline for breaking news stories, or a User-Generated Content website may want to have separate pipelines for low, medium, and high resolution outputs to target different devices.
ENGADGET: Amazon wants to make your hi-res videos mobile-friendly with Elastic Transcoder
It also includes automatic transcoding, which allows viewers to flip between a whole host of quality settings depending on their connection, and additionally partners will receive early access to new tech from Twitch, and will have the ability to test new features.
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"Equipped with the Intel Atom CE5315 that accelerates transcoding and supports HDMI interface, the Synology DiskStation provides users with hassle-free access to their data anywhere, and from any device, making multimedia streaming even more effortless, " said Vic Hsu, chief executive officer of Synology Inc.
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Broadcom's 28 nanometer (nm) ARM-based BCM7445 UltraHD video decoder solution, serving as the primary gateway to the home, delivers more transcoding, CPU processing performance and home networking throughput to support a greater range of applications such as video-on-demand (VoD), gaming, social media and web store applications.
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So, with all popular vids encoded and every incoming one getting the transcoding treatment, all you really need now is a compatible browser -- Chrome (naturally), Firefox 4, Opera, or IE9 with a plug-in -- and to enroll in YouTube's HTML5 trial linked below to get rolling with WebM playback.
"We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming and thumbnailing your videos, and we provide open access to our sizable global audience, enabling you to generate traffic for your site, visibility for your brand or support for your cause, " reads a statement in the company's blog.
Transcoding occurs at 1:1 speed, meaning an hour of footage will take an hour of processing, but you do have the option of converting your videos immediately after they're recorded, so they're prepped before you need to run out the door to catch a flight (the actual wireless transfer takes between five and eight minutes for each hour-long show).
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