A client of mine needs to accept a bunch of different video files and convert them to FLV. My experience with FFMEG on a previous project has highlighted that there will be some troublesome files.
Depending on the price my client will pay for a professional service.
What are people using and how are you finding the service?
Thanks.
I'm currently looking at services for this as well,
just found encoding.com from an answer to this question
I also have been looking at CDN's becuase I also need to ensure that the videos don't overwhelm my servers, not sure but I thought some of them said full service media including transcoding. if you need a CDN to deliver the video too it may come with transcoding.
Now I'm getting into server stuff, maybe this should topic should move to server fault?
encoding.com is pretty good and cheap. I used them for conversion of uploaded user files to FLV. After that encoding.com can upload files to AWS S3 or to your FTP account with 'ping' request. Should be enough for automation.
flixcloud.com from the makers of the on2 vp6 codec which is very good quality. i prefer this over encoding.com as they dont charge a monthly fee.
<biased answer alert> I recommend Zencoder (http://zencoder.com), built by the same folks that built Flix Cloud (http://flixcloud.com). We've put a ton of work into handling troublesome files, and we can support a wider range of input files than anyone out there. We're also the fastest service on the market and have (we think) a very developer-friendly API.
I can't give any recommondations, as I'm searching for a service to implement for many clients myself. However, perhaps I can help anyone else who is also looking.
It seems there are a couple type of services:
In looking at these services, a few things to consider: