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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 :
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We released the Amazon Elastic Transcoder with an initial set of features and a promise to iterate quickly based on customer feedback. You've supplied us with plenty of feedback (primarily via the Elastic Transcoder Forum) and have a set of... Delete the scoop?
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When Samsung unveiled its next-generation smartphone, the Galaxy S4, in March this year, most of the Korean giant’s fans focused their attention on the device’s big 5-inch, 1920 x 1080 screen, its quad-core processor and its 13Mp camera. All impressive of course, but incremental steps in the ongoing evolution of the smartphone. More cutting edge is the S4’s promised support for a technology called HEVC.
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Almost three years after Google released its WebM video encoding technology as a "free" and open alternative to the existing H.264 backed by Apple and others, it has admitted its position was wrong and that it would pay to license the patents WebM infringes. [...] Mozilla and Opera initially also tried to prevent the use of H.264, but have since capitulated to support H.264 as a standard, leaving Google's WebM in virtually the same position it had as a new 1.0 product three years ago, but without any excitement surrounding it. This essentially makes WebM the equivalent of Flash in 2010: resolved of legal challenges but saddled with technical and performance issues, and incompatible with any devices running iOS. Via Nicolas Weil Delete the scoop?
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This will provide one of the first large scale demonstrations of OTT HD delivery using HEVC. Delete the scoop?
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TOKYO, JAPAN, February 4, 2013 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan’s leading mobile operator and provider of integrated s... Delete the scoop?
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Software enables multiple codecs, multiscreen monetization, Ultra HD encoding PORTLAND, ORE. –Elemental Technologies, supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, now supports for the high-efficiency video coding H.265 codec. With a flexible software-based architecture, these video processing solutions offer support via an upgrade. The bandwidth efficiency associated with the adoption of HEVC promises to expand delivery of high-quality, high-resolution video over bandwidth-constrained networks.
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Transcoding is the process of converting a media file (audio or video) from one format, size, or quality to another. Implementing a transcoding system on your own can be fairly complex. You might need to use a combination of open... Delete the scoop?
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The DASH264 Implementation Guidelines defines an interoperability point for the video distribution over the top. The guidelines cover both live and on-demand services and includes MPEG-DASH profiles, audio and video codecs, close caption format and common encryption constants.
For this version of guidelines, the client is expected to support presentation of high-definition video up to 720p (based on H.264/AVC Progressive High Profile)presentation of stereo audiosupport of basic subtitlesbasic support for encryption/DRM
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Orange will introduce what could be the world’s first HEVC-based service this spring, delivering HD movies to 2013 models of Samsung Smart TVs in France. The innovation coincides with the launch of a new Orange VOD Connected TV service in partnership with Samsung, covering pre-2013 models as well.
The company revealed the partnership with Samsung at CES last week and was demonstrating the VOD service on the Samsung booth. A Full HD movie (1080p, 1920×1080 at 24/25 fps) was being played at 3Mbps thanks to the new video codec, which is due to become a standard imminently. Via Nicolas Weil Delete the scoop?
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One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17.
The VP9 bitstream definition, which describes how video is compressed into a stream of data so it can be transmitted efficiently over a network, has been in beta testing for a week, said Matt Frost, senior business product manager for the WebM Project.
Paul Wilkins, a Google codec engineer, detailed the final schedule for the VP9 bitstream definition Thursday in a mailing list post.
WebM will be updated to accommodate the new video codec and a new audio codec called Opus, too, said another Google employee, Lou Quillio. Via Nicolas Weil 
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Video infrastructure company Harmonic launched a major new product today, ProMedia Carbon MP, a professional cloud-based transcoding service available from the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.
Harmonic is targeting a range of professional users with this release, including media professionals with only occasional transcoding needs, content owners and service providers that need a hand with occasional transcoding spikes, and service providers that want to create cloud-based transcoding farms. Via Nicolas Weil Delete the scoop?
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today launched a cloud-based transcoding service for professional applications available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. ProMedia™ Carbon MP, powered by the acclaimed Harmonic Rhozet® technology used in the ProMedia Carbon transcoding engine, enables content creators, service providers, and media professionals to quickly and cost-effectively convert broadcast-quality video content to virtually any standard media format, making it an ideal transcoding solution for a wide range of applications. Delete the scoop?
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At the 2013 NAB Show, Digital Rapids will showcase new capabilities and enhancements to its Transcode Manager 2.0 automated, high-volume, file-based media processing software. Transcode Manager 2.0 is designed to transcend transcoding, seamlessly... Delete the scoop?
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Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO has indicated that it will license video decoding software for the new HEVC standard this March, paving the way for full HD video streaming on smartphones and other devices. Delete the scoop?
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One company that is pioneering cloud transcoding is Elemental Technologies. In September it introduced its Elemental Cloud, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that utilizes the hardware capacity of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give video providers the chance to expand capacity or enhance their disaster recovery options. Several media companies have tested the solution and the first (unnamed) customers signed up late last year. “They are all extremely well known in the media industry and they are global in scope,” is all the vendor can say at this point. Via Nicolas Weil Delete the scoop?
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Another move today from Amazon that speaks to its growing presence in content delivery and enterprise services, done at competition-beating prices: today the company launched Elastic Transcoder, a new service that lets people upload digital video... Delete the scoop?
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Confused over how the MPEG DASH adaptive streaming standard works? This session from Streaming Media Europe has the answers. Via Ludovic Bostral Delete the scoop?
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Things tend to get pushed down quickly in the forums, and since I own this feature, I thought I would cover the answer in a blog post. But first things first, read this postabout architecting a system for user-contributed content. Delete the scoop?
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