Amazon focuses on cloud video with new Elastic Transcoder service

January 29, 2013 8:19 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Amazon Web Services launched a new cloud video service today that targets customers who want to convert video into formats optimized to play on a variety of devices, such as smartphones, tablets, PCs, and smart TVs.

Brightcove announces new Zencoder services that make video encoding less painful

September 5, 2012 10:43 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Video service company Brightcove announced a handful of new products today aimed at simplifying the workflow involved with video encoding for both On Demand and live streaming content.

Livestream steps into hardware, simplifies streaming in the field with Broadcaster

April 12, 2012 4:00 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

While it’s easier than ever to stream video from our phone these days, setting up a professional-looking video stream at an event is still overly cumbersome. The biggest problem is encoding video and getting it on the web, something that …