WebM VP8 codec

WebM is an audio-video format designed to provide a royalty-free, open video compression format for use with HTML5 video.  A WebM file consists of VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams, in a container format.     If you're interested in using Encoding.com's platform to create WebM files from your source content, there's a number of Read more

FLV codec

Flash Video, or FLV, is a container file format used to deliver video via the Adobe Flash player.  Deployed by leading video sites such as YouTube, Yahoo! Video, and many others, Flash Video is an open format which supports H.264, VP6 and Sorenson Spark formats. If you're interested in using Encoding.com's platform to create FLV Read more

Easily Create iPhone Streaming Files with Encoding.com

If you're interested in using Encoding.com's platform to create iPhone Streaming (m3u8) files from your source content, there's a number of ways to achieve that using the options listed below. Our new HLS encoding has better adaptive bitrate distribution within the H.264 segments! + Use our web-based encoding software UI, located @ http://www.encoding.com/login, to designate Read more

Apple TV

  Apple TV, originally launched in September 2006, is a product manufactured and sold by Apple. This digital media receiver is a small form factor network appliance designed to play IPTV digital content originating from the iTunes Store, Netflix, YouTube, Flickr, MobileMe or any Mac OS X or Windows computer running iTunes.    If you're Read more

MPEG4 codec

MPEG video generally refers to a set of standards and methods for compressing audio and video data.  MPEG-4, refers to the feature set of MPEG reserved for digital rights management and support of higher-efficiency standards used by streaming media, HD DVD and Blu-Ray.  MPEG-4 supports interactivity and has the ability to crunch massive video files Read more

On2 VP6

Use Encoding.com’s powerful encoding engine to easily convert your video files to On2 VP6 based Flash. Upload videos to our platform from S3, FTP, Rackspace or your local storage and effortlessly have them converted and delivered back to S3, FTP or Rackspace. Find On2 VP6 Video Codecs Need to encode many files daily? Deliver to Read more

How to configure a new watch folder

To configure a brand new watch folder, follow the steps below. Please note that you can configure this for Rackspace, Amazon S3 or (S)FTP. We are using FTP as an example in this case. – – – In the Folder URL field enter a FTP folder in the format ftp://myusername:password@myftpserver.com/video_in Add an email address in Read more

What is the media file size limit?

Currently, Encoding.com's file size is non existent.  With the current limitation of Amazon S3's single source files @ 5 TB, the possibilites are limitless. Here's a the only caveat: + Amazon S3 only allows files up to 5 GB to be loaded through their UI. Check out Amazon's link here for current info on their Read more

3GP Codec

The 3GP Codec Encoding.com is a Flexible Online 3GP Converter 3GP is a multimedia container format that supports MPEG-2, H.263 and H.264 video codecs. Encoding.com supports a host of file formats within many video containers. Check out our up to the minute list of supported file formats and read below to learn more about our Read more

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