How to get encoded video size if partial size was used in request?

Let you specified the result video size as 320×0 – to make the width to be calculated based on the source aspect ratio. Then let you need to know what the exact frame size of result is. First, you can find out the source media aspect ratio. Just send GetMediaInfo API request, and locate <display_aspect_ratio> Read more

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Video Converting Made Easy by Encoding.com

In order to maximize revenues and distribution points, video content publishers should make their videos available in as many popular formats as possible across the various internet-connected devices.  To do this, they must convert video from its source (recorded) format to widely adopted consumer device formats such as Flash and Quicktime. Video encoding is the Read more

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How to combine multiple video files to a single one

This feature allows you to combine several video files to one file.  You can use it via User Interface, or via API.  User Interface  To use this feature via user interface, you have to add several video sources in “Add Media” section. And they would automatically combined to one file (in sequential order) during the Read more

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WMV Codec

Windows Media Video, or WMV, is Microsoft’s family of video codecs including WMV 7, WMV 8, and WMV 9. The WMV codec can handle anything from low resolution video for dial-up Internet users to HDTV.  The latest generation of WMV, based on the WMV 9 codec, has been standardized and approved as a new and Read more

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M4A Codec

MPEG-4 is a developing standard used to compress audio and visual data, and is divided into several parts. The standard includes the concept of “profiles” and “levels,” allowing a specific set of capabilities to be defined in a manner appropriate for a subset of applications.  The MPEG-4 standard is generally used for streaming media and Read more

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MPEG Codec

MPEG video generally refers to a set of standards and methods for compressing audio and video data.  The most important and widely used standards include MPEG-2, an older format currently used by over-the-air digital television providers (digital cable, satellite) and MPEG-4, which includes additional features for digital rights management and support of higher-efficiency standards used Read more

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AVI Codec

Scalable, Cloud-Based AVI Conversion/Encoding Software Audio Video Interleave, known as the AVI codec, is a multimedia container format created by Microsoft in 1992.  AVI files contain both audio and video data and support synchronous audio-with-video playback.   An AVI container can support virtually any compression scheme including Full Frame (uncompressed), Intel Real Time (Indeo), Cinepak, Read more

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How can I set up Encoding.com to work with Flowplayer?

Once your encoding job is complete tell your Flowplayer where to find your encoded video on HDDN: Click on the “Minimal Setup” from your saved setup View the source code and copy & paste it to your site. Change the clip url to the one you set as the destination in your encoding settings. It's Read more

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Double percent-encoding needed for VBScript FTP paths

For VBScript output to work, you may need to percent-encode the destination path twice. Like this. Regular FTP path: ftp://username@yourcompany.com:password@server.com/file.m3u8?passive=yes Single URL (%) encoded – used for some standard FTP configurations ftp://username%40yourcompany.com:password@server.com/file.m3u8?passive=yes Double URL (%) encoded – used for VBScript FTP ftp%3A%2F%2Fusername%2540yourcompany%3Apassword%40server.com%2Ffile.m3u8%3Fpassive%3Dyes

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