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How to use Live Transcoding with Akamai Media Services Akamai HLS Ingest allows you to deliver live HLS streams to devices running iOS 3 and higher and Android 4 and higher. With Encoding.com’s Live Transcoding features Akamai is able to deliver your live stream to users around the world. Setting up Akamai account Log in Read more
Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS) is an extension to IIS Media Services that provides the capability for adaptive streaming of video media over HTTP. MSS is complaint with 3GPP, MPEG and DECE adaptive bit-rate standards for HTTP streaming. As with the other types of adaptive bitrate streaming, MSS can dynamically adjust movie playback quality to match the available speed of wired or Read more
HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) enables both on-demand and live adaptive bitrate video transmittal of MP4 media over typical HTTP connections. HDS is an open-format solution that allows online media publishers to leverage existing network and cache facilities to deliver media to the Adobe Flash Platform with high efficiency. As with the other types of Read more
HTTP Live Streaming lets you send live or pre-recorded audio and video to any iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Mac—using an ordinary web server. Designed for mobility, HTTP live streaming can dynamically adjust movie playback quality to match the available speed of wired or wireless networks. You can use Encoding.com to create iOS streaming files Read more
You can easily configure videos for use with your Roku set-top box using one of the Roku presets on Encoding.com. Simply choose a preset, then set a destination location for the output files and you’re done. See below for details and screenshots. Roku Preset for Single Bitrate Output After uploading your source video Read more
The general rule for the two types of Dolby AAC audio codecs is as follows: For low bitrate audio 40 kbps to 64 kbps, use HE-AAC @ 44100 Hz <audio_codec>dolby_heaac</audio_codec> For high bitrate audio 80 kbps to 320 kbps, use AAC-LC @ 44100 Hz <audio_codec>dolby_aac</audio_codec>
To stream HDS content from Encding.com you have four options: 1. Flash Media Server on Dedicated Server 2. Flash Media Server on AWS CloudFront or other CDN that support HDS. 3. Wowza 4. Apache with Adobe Origins plugin HDS will work on AWS CloudFront only via their special Flash Media Server subscription. See http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/adobe/ Read more
Microsoft's Smooth Streaming (MSS) To stream media over HTTP using Microsoft's Smooth Streaming protocol chose the “Smooth Streaming” preset from the encoding.com client interface, watch folder, or API. NOTE: Because the Smooth Streaming output creates multiple files from a single source file you have the option to tar the output tar = yes, in which Read more
To stream on-demand media over HTTP using Adobe's HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) protocol chose the preset “Dynamic Streaming” from the encoding.com client interface/watch folder, or the parameter “HDS” from the Encoding.com API. NOTE: To use Adobe's HDS, the source media must be in MP4, FV4, or FLV compatible formats. Please transcode your video into one Read more
<?xml version=”1.0″?> <query> <userid>[]</userid> <userkey>[]</userkey> <action>AddMedia</action> <notify/> <notify_encoding_errors/> <source/> <format> <output>smooth_streaming</output> <rotate>def</rotate> <audio_codec>libfaac</audio_codec> </destination> <pack_files>yes</pack_files> </format> </query>