Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming

  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

Apple HTTP Live Streaming

  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

How do I upload files for transcoding?

Our file uploading process is extremely easy. We also employ several methods to accelerate the transfer of your source media to any of our processing centers: Optimized S3 Transit, Multi-thread FTP, and Aspera High Speed file transfer. On our extremely easy-to-use User Interface, we direct you to your source location for your file upload. Within Read more

Where are my transcoded files delivered?

You can select as many output formats as you’d like for your video. Once you select your parameters, we process your video and deliver to your specified FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, RackSpace Cloud Files, or Microsoft Azure storage locations. With Encoding.com you can deliver to multiple CDNs and YouTube in one step. Simply specify multiple Read more

Creating Output Files

Once you successfully upload a video, you’ll need to specify the output conditions and location. With Encoding.com, you can direct your output to several destinations: FTP, Amazon S3, CF (Rackspace Cloud Files), Azure, Aspera, YouTube, or Email. If you choose Email, then you will receive an email message containing an Encoding.com link to your output Read more

Encoding a video

After you successfully login to Encoding.com, the Upload page will appear. At the top of the page, you’ll see options for uploading your source video: You can specify the source location of your video in one of two ways. You  can enter the path directly, or, you may prefer to specify each component of the Read more

What is video encoding?

Video encoding is the process of converting digital video files from one format to another. Encoding is also known as “transcoding” or “video conversion.” At the time of recording, the device gives the video file a particular format and other specifications. If the video owner wants to publish the video, s/he must consider the various Read more

Deliver to multiple CDNs in with Encoding.com

With Encoding.com you can deliver to multiple CDNs and YouTube in one step. Simply specify multiple destination tags in your format requests and we will distribute your videos to the CDNs of your choice. You can easily send your completed source videos to Amazon S3, Rackspace, Edgecast, Highwinds, Akamai, CloudFront, Limelight, Level 3, CDNetworks, & Read more

How do I use the HTTPS version of Vid.ly URLs and thumbnails?

Looking for access Vid.ly URLs and thumbnails via HTTPS? Look no further. All you need to do is make slight adjustments to your embed code and your URL structure for this to work. For Amazon S3 access, please format as follows: Poster: https://d3fenhwk93s16g.cloudfront.net/[media_short_link]/poster.jpg Thumbnails: https://d3fenhwk93s16g.cloudfront.net/[media short link]/thumbnail_1.jpg – 33% https://d3fenhwk93s16g.cloudfront.net/[media short link]/thumbnail_2.jpg – 66% https://d3fenhwk93s16g.cloudfront.net/[media Read more

How do I know what it is that I’m doing?

Well, sounds like you're new to the platform, right? Your objectives are to encode a video and deliver it someplace. Here's where to start: Beginner: Most folks log into the UI @ http://www.encoding.com and select 'Start a new job' from the list of choices on the left in order to test drive the system. Run Read more