Encoding.com has released support for advanced broadcast formats on the heels of their integration with Harmonic’s ProMedia Carbon

San Francisco, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/13/2014 -- Encoding.com, the world's largest cloud video processing service, has expanded its web, mobile and OTT format support to include all key acquisition, editing, and broadcast formats targeted at the production workflow for Broadcasters and Premium Content providers distributing video over-the-top to Video-on-Demand and set-top-box platforms. With its recent integration of Harmonic's ProMedia Carbon and other broadcast transcoding engines, Encoding.com now offers support for dozens of advanced formats including MPEG-TS (CableLabs) , JPEG 2000, XDCam, ProRes, MXF, GXF and many others.

Encoding.com now supports a complete cloud solution for all formats required within the broadcast, edit and digital distribution workflows. The early challenges of moving large files into and out of cloud processing centers are quickly disappearing as broadcasters adopt cloud storage locations and accelerated transport protocols. By utilizing an encoding engine that was already in production within an on-premise workflow, broadcast customers can migrate complex and sensitive workflows to the cloud quickly without additional quality certification steps.

"The superior automation and elastic capacity of cloud video processing was first recognized in the web, mobile, and OTT market segment but we have had strong interest from our customers to move this workflow into the broadcast facility as digital and broadcast workflows converge." Greggory Heil Founder and CEO of Encoding.com.

This added support enables Encoding.com's broadcast clients to solve their encoding challenges and workflows using the scalability and automation only cloud media processing can provide. Additional use cases include broadcast playout systems (transmisson of content), automation of playlists for regional programming and enabling ad insertion; Encoding.com can now simplify and scale this workflow.

About Encoding.com
Encoding.com, is the world's largest video encoding service, powering video transcoding for 3,000+ leading companies across media and entertainment, eLearning, retail, telecommunications, lifestyle and advertising. Blending an affordable SaaS model with sophisticated integrations on public and private cloud computing platforms, Encoding.com enables publishers and developers to instantly scale without expensive infrastructure investments. Encoding.com supports all popular broadcast, IPTV, web, and mobile formats, accelerating processing for optimized delivery to every device. With more than 60 million successful encodes, Encoding.com is the only cloud media service to offer an SLA for performance, so its customers can focus on what they do best. Encoding.com is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. with offices in Aspen, Colo. and St. Petersburg, Russia. For the latest news from Encoding.com, follow them on Twitter @encodingdotcom.

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Encoding.com releases support for the latest standard in adaptive bitrate delivery through their API and UI

San Francisco, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/24/2014 -- Encoding.com, the world's largest cloud video processing service, released support for MPEG-DASH, the latest adaptive bitrate protocol.

Gregg Heil, CEO of Encoding.com says, "We are pleased to offer early support of the MPEG DASH standard so our clients can begin testing hands on. We have already seen some impressive production implementations of DASH on Google's Chromecast and with native iOS and Android apps and look forward to the modern, non proprietary adaptive bitrate standard as DASH quickly gains industry support."

MPEG-DASH, developed under MPEG, is the first international adaptive bitrate HTTP-based streaming standard. This is the first standard for HTTP streaming/adaptive bitrate of multimedia content which allows clients to stream content from any standard-based server, thereby enabling consistent playback and unification of servers and clients of different vendors.

MPEG-DASH works by breaking content into a sequence of small HTTP-based file segments, each segment containing a short interval of playback time of a content that is potentially many hours in duration. MPEG-DASH clients have the ability to select the segment with the highest bit rate possible that can be downloaded in time for play back without causing stalls or rebuffering events in the playback; seamlessly adapting to changing network conditions. This protocol provides the high quality playback without stalls or rebuffering events.

In addition to seamless playback, there are several key benefits to supporting this new standard. With backing from many of the big players in the space, the new protocol will eliminate technical issues in delivery and compression, as it essentially combines all of the technologies and standards into one, making streaming support seamless on all devices. This, in turn, aims to reduce technical headaches and transcoding costs. Content publishers can generate a single set of files for encoding and streaming that should be compatible with as many devices as possible from mobile to OTT, and also to the desktop via plug-ins or HTML5; eliminating the worry of device support.

Incorporating support for this standard was a natural progression for Encoding.com. For more information on MPEG-DASH and our support, visit http://www.features.encoding.com/mpeg-dash or follow us on Twitter @encodingdotcom.

About Encoding.com
Encoding.com, is the world's largest video encoding service, powering video transcoding for 3,000+ leading companies across media and entertainment, eLearning, retail, telecommunications, lifestyle and advertising. Blending an affordable SaaS model with sophisticated integrations on public and private cloud computing platforms, Encoding.com enables publishers and developers to instantly scale without expensive infrastructure investments. Encoding.com supports all popular broadcast, IPTV, web, and mobile formats, accelerating processing for optimized delivery to every device. With more than 60 million successful encodes, Encoding.com is the only cloud media service to offer an SLA for performance, so its customers can focus on what they do best. Encoding.com is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. with offices in Aspen, Colo. and St. Petersburg, Russia. For the latest news from Encoding.com, follow them on Twitter @encodingdotcom.

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Encoding.com has released support for the latest standard in video compression and delivery

San Francisco, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/16/2014 -- Encoding.com, the world's largest cloud video processing service, today announced support for producing HEVC video, the latest advancement in video compression standards.

HEVC/H.265, the successor to H.264 developed by MPEG and VCEG, is the latest video compression standard which promises to deliver higher quality video at lower bitrates. With the same picture size and quality, an HEVC sequence can occupy less storage or transmission capacity than the equivalent H.264 video sequence.

Encoding.com, always on the forefront with the latest in format support, is offering multiple workflow integrations for HEVC through its API and UI. "Producing the highest quality video at the lowest possible file size is everyone's video Holy Grail and a key driver for our business," said Jeff Malkin, president at Encoding.com. "Our HEVC support empowers the delivery of 4K content at greatly reduced bitrates, thus providing cost effective solutions for our customers."

HEVC was designed with the goal of allowing video content to have a data compression ratio of up to 1000:1. Two key HEVC improvements over H.264 include support for higher resolution video and improved parallel processing methods. Targeted at next-generation HDTV displays and content capture systems, recent trials have proven to deliver 50% better compression efficiency than H.264 with these higher resolutions, supporting the latest 4k screens. As 4K and Ultra High Definition are becoming increasingly important, HEVC compression has proven to be critical in making 4K cost effective for reaching multi-screen devices without utilizing too much bandwidth.

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About Encoding.com
Encoding.com, is the world's largest video encoding service, powering video for 3,000+ leading companies across media and entertainment, eLearning, retail, telecommunications, lifestyle and advertising. Blending an affordable SaaS model with sophisticated integrations on public and private cloud computing platforms, Encoding.com enables publishers and developers to instantly scale without expensive infrastructure investments. Encoding.com supports all popular broadcast, IPTV, web,and mobile formats, accelerating processing for optimized delivery to every device. With more than 60 million successful encodes, Encoding.com is the only cloud media service to offer an SLA for performance, so its customers can focus on what they do best.

Encoding.com is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices in Aspen, CO and St. Petersburg, Russia. For the latest news from Encoding.com, follow them on Twitter @encodingdotcom.

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