Comments on: Encoding.com Relaunches as SaaS Video Encoding Platform

By: Venturing Capital

Venturing Capital — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:57:33 +0000

[...] Encoding.comwhich I will leave Techcrunch to explain what it does http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/06/26/encodingcom-relaunches-as-saas-video-encoding-platform/ [...]

By: This Week On TechcrunchIT

This Week On TechcrunchIT — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:43:15 +0000

[...] The cloud is getting more crowded and competitive with a serise of announcements this week starting with Cloudstatus, new stuff at Mosso and a new cloud-based video encoding platform. [...]

By: nick wilson

nick wilson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:01:16 +0000

Cloud encoding is one of the best ideas out there. Like Jack, I struggle with my own encoding infrastructure…. where were these guys 2 years ago!

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:35:30 +0000

This looks quite slick. We tried writing a one-off encoder workflow once, but it turned out pretty crufty, couldn’t handle two of the formats we ended up needing, and six months later nobody remembered how it worked.

By: Jack Faris

Jack Faris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:23:32 +0000

Having managed the encoding platform of a growing user generated video site I know the time money and energy it takes to build let alone scale this from scratch. I think this really takes a huge burden off of video application developer. I would have integrated with their API in a second. Well done.

By: Vassil Mladjov

Vassil Mladjov — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:26:32 +0000

On-demand trans-coding is not a new biz model, the biggest problem here will be to ensure that the video encode quality is proper for the intended use/user in mind. This is not something that you can just point and click at. I have been doing video encoding since ‘94 and yes the technology today is much better, still I see lots of crappy videos on the web and the main reason is how they are produced. For the average company this may work just fine, but I am not sure who they are going after. I would partner with he CDN’s and offer a white label offering as well as integrate this with 3rd party SaaS and software vendors. MySpace and Facebook could use this to standardise not to mention that the YouTube video trans-coding is not taking a bit too much time for those 5 min clips.