The beginning of this year 2013 is full of news in the transcoding cloud world. The two main platforms announced the release of their own solutions :
I made some posts to introduce Azure Media Services (part 1, part 2) available after May 2012. Here is a quick overview to compare those different services.
After the first post which give an overview and explain how set-up a WAMS environment, I continue the discovery of WAMS World (sorry for the pun ;-)). In this post, we will see how we can transform a video from a input format to another format. It’s possible to generate multiple output format or to encrypt the video. But we will see it in a next posts.
I open a serie of posts which will talk about this solution. Microsoft announced at the end of spring the preview of Windows Azure Media Services. WAMS form an extensible media platform that integrates the best of the Microsoft Media Platform and third-party media components in Windows Azure.
Je travaille avec le logiciel ffmpeg. C’est un outil en ligne de commande utilisé comme base pour beaucoup d’outils plus haut niveau dans le domaine de l’encodage vidéo. L’application est également fortement utilisé par des purs players de la vidéos sur la toile. FFmpeg est complété par une ensemble de librairies : libavcodec, libavformat ou encore libx264 pour le H.264 dont je parlerais plus à la fin du billet.