How to encode all of your videos on the cloud, quickly and cheaply

Re:How to encode all of your videos on the cloud, quickly an... by dboyd on Thursday July 22, 2010 @09:19PM (#1540092)

There doesn't seem to be any information about patent indemnification.

I've done video transcoding in the past. While I wasn't an expert on the legal/patent issues, I know that the product we used (helix mobile producer, from Real) indemnified us such that we could then use ffmpeg as long as it was on the same machine.

If you use this service, you might want to inquire into patent issues, and if you are covered.

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Re:How to encode all of your videos on the cloud, quickly an... by kelkabany on Thursday July 22, 2010 @09:29PM (#1540107)

Good point. At the end of the day, we're not a video encoding service, so our users should use us in the same they would their own Amazon EC2 instance with ffmpeg.

Here's ffmpeg's take: http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html Here's Zencoder's take: http://zencoder.com/docs/codecs-and-formats/#licensing

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Re:How to encode all of your videos on the cloud, quickly an... by kierank on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:30AM (#1540899)

There doesn't seem to be any information about patent indemnification.

You could say that about any blog post about any piece of software. Just because there's been a lot of (rather emotionally driven) press recently about video patents doesn't make it any different.

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Re:How to encode all of your videos on the cloud, quickly an... by chopsueyar on Friday July 23, 2010 @03:30AM (#1540602)

Slightly off-topic, kinda' related.

Do you know any resources for "current" recommended encoding settings (with regard to US-based ISP speeds & typical consumer home networks - dsl, cable, fios, cellular, 802.11g/n etc.)?

I know Flash Media Server will stream .mp4 h.264 video to Flash 9 and greater. iPhone/Ipod Touch requires a maximum encoding setting of Baseline, Level 3.0, iPad Level 3.1.

I really want to know what bitrates at which speeds and resolutions.

Depending on the user's connection, how many different bitrates would the video be encoded for (iPad over 3G, ipad over 802.11g, ipad over 802.11n, with cable, dsl, or fios)?

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