Video transcoding is fine so long as the technology and profiles used
stay the same long enough for companies utilising them to keep on top of
their needs.
However, a lot of companies want to be able to encode their back
catalogue to support new profiles, which can be a tiresome and
long-winded task.
Encoding Profiles
I’ve talked to a lot of companies recently about their video
transcoding needs and most are eager to support an increased number of
encoding profiles.
But as their video library grows, they foresee
challenges in encoding their back catalogue to support new profiles while
keeping up with transcoding their daily ingest.
On Demand Transcoding
In the following video, I’ve
white boarded an example of the pre-transcoding challenge.
I think it
will help further your understanding as to why companies with growing
video libraries should consider On-Demand Transcoding to reduce the
cost and complexities of delivering video to multiple formats.
Video White Board
Originally written by Brendon Mills of the RipCode Blog. RipCode offers on-demand video transcoding solutions to ease the process of re-purposing video into multiple viewing formats.
