Transcoding Service
For the allocation of your media in best quality, we offer you a high-performance and high-quality service with the ViMP transcoding service, with which your media is prepared and provided in best quality and at high capacity.
For direct playback with the Flash player the videos can be encoded into MP4 (H.264 codec) or FLV (VP6 codec).
Additional a variety of other formats is possible, e.g. WebM or OGV for HTML5 playback on mobile devices.
The media uploaded in your portal are automatically forwarded to the transcoding service, converted regarding the desired settings and finally automatically integrated into the framework with all dedicated meta-data.
*) For one-time trancsoding of the videos after upload.
Benefits of the Transcoding Service compared to the free OpenSource Transcoding
External Transcoding
Video encoding is a computationally very intensive process that requires a lot of server performance. The external transcoding doesn't stress your server what results in more power for serving your websites and videos.
Scalability thru cloud solution
Multiple uploads can be transcoded simultaniously and thereby faster. The time of waiting for each video is shorter and your server stays free of additional load even with multiple concurrent uploads.
Quality
By using the latest professional codecs the transcoding service delivers better results than the OpenSource transcoding can do.
Formats
The transcoding service supports almost any video input format and additional to FLV/VP6 and MP4/H.264 the following output formats: VP8, Ogg Theora, MPEG-4, 3GP, WMV.
Video encoding is a computationally very intensive process that requires a lot of server performance. The external transcoding doesn't stress your server what results in more power for serving your websites and videos.
Scalability thru cloud solution
Multiple uploads can be transcoded simultaniously and thereby faster. The time of waiting for each video is shorter and your server stays free of additional load even with multiple concurrent uploads.
Quality
By using the latest professional codecs the transcoding service delivers better results than the OpenSource transcoding can do.
Formats
The transcoding service supports almost any video input format and additional to FLV/VP6 and MP4/H.264 the following output formats: VP8, Ogg Theora, MPEG-4, 3GP, WMV.
Watermark
Contrary to the OpenSource transcoding the transcoding service can encode a watermark right into the video (important for downloadable videos).
Thumbnails
Thumbnails can be generated at random or at a predefined timestamp.
Rotation
Videos can be rotated in 90 degree steps.
Transcoding into several formats
By request videos can be encoded into several formats (e.g. FLV and MP4 for mobile devices additionally).
Video cut
Video can be cut to a defined run-time, e.g. for providing previews for videos with costs (requires a appropriate code extension in your portal).
Contrary to the OpenSource transcoding the transcoding service can encode a watermark right into the video (important for downloadable videos).
Thumbnails
Thumbnails can be generated at random or at a predefined timestamp.
Rotation
Videos can be rotated in 90 degree steps.
Transcoding into several formats
By request videos can be encoded into several formats (e.g. FLV and MP4 for mobile devices additionally).
Video cut
Video can be cut to a defined run-time, e.g. for providing previews for videos with costs (requires a appropriate code extension in your portal).