As Google Shutters Flix Cloud Encoding Service, Zencoder (YC W10) Gets A Boost

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/as-google-shutters-on2s-encoding-service-flix-cloud-zencoder-gets-a-boost/

by jon_dahl • 16 years ago

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jonasvp2• 16 years ago

More power to Zencoder! I integrated their service into a client site a couple of weeks ago and their support is phenomenal. I chatted with one of the guys and he was very helpful. Another Zencoder technician actually emailed me because he noticed that some API callbacks we're errorring out. I was testing from a LAN machine and he was trying to save me some time debugging.

Nice to see them moving onwards and upwards.

andrerobot• 16 years ago

I'm considering integrating their service. Using ffmpeg can be a bitch when you have to deal with many combinations of input codecs.

How does it run when you send a request with hundreds of jobs? They autoscale so there is little waiting time on queues, but I don't get if that means if the scaling is per job or per user.

fowlduck• 16 years ago

We autoscale very, very quickly to serve all the jobs in our system. The only limitations we place are on test jobs, where they execute sequentially per account and only 100 can be processing or waiting.

adriand• 16 years ago

I submitted this separately but it didn't go anywhere (no big surprise, it has a pretty narrow focus) but if you're interested in integrating Zencoder with a Rails app, the tutorial I published earlier today may be helpful:

http://factore.ca/on-the-floor/65-automatically-encode-video...

As Google Shutters Flix Cloud Encoding Service, Zencoder (YC W10) Gets A Boost

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