In this blog I will be covering real world encoding issues with the most current tools available in the market.
To start, I wanted to list some of the software professional transcoding tools that are most common in the industry today. Follow the links to the company websites as well as product reviews when available. The prices were gathered at their websites or reviews for the products and might have changed by the time you read this article.
This are software only solutions, you have to get your own hardware to run them.
Rhozet Carbon Server: $14,995 (minimum requirement)
Rhozet Carbon Coder: $4,995 (additional node)
Anystream: $10,000 (base system)
Flip factory : $5,495
ProCoder 3: $470
Sorenson squeeze 5: $499
Flip4Mac Episode: $ 499
Flip4Mac Episode Pro: $ 995
Rhozet Carbon Server / Coder
Probably the most popular application for video transcoding today is Rhozet. And for good reason. It is, very robust, scalable with a very flexible API.
The system requires that you buy the Carbon Server at a minimum, which is itself an encoding node, and you can buy additional Carbon Coders or nodes to extend the system's capacity.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9543
http://www.rhozet.com/
Anystream Agility System
This is another excellent product with a good API. Very reliable and robust. The system can be extended to suit your needs.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10177
http://www.anystream.com/
Telestream FlipFactory
A good system, but with a bit less straight forward interface and approach.
http://www.telestream.net/news/article_streamingmedia_FF12_18_01.htm
http://www.telestream.net/products/flipfactory.htm
ProCoder 3
Good bang for your buck. Not scalable but can easily automate simple workflows.
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videoencodvd/revfeat/grass_valley_procoder/
http://desktop.thomsongrassvalley.com/products/ProCoderSW/closeup.php
Telestream Flip4Mac and Flip4Mac Pro
Supports many of the semi-pro and pro formats (Pro version.) You can do batch encoding. If you use a Mac, you need this tool.
http://www.macworld.com/article/46733/2005/09/flip4mac.html
http://www.flip4mac.com/
Sorenson Squeeze 5
Also a good bang for your buck. Not scalable, but you can batch encode with ease.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10439
http://www.sorensonmedia.com/products/?pageID=1&ppc=3
Next post will cover some of the most popular consumer applications available in the market today.
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Hello Jaime,
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good review,
I recently spent an entire evening working with transcoders. I gave ffmpeg a shot with various GUI front ends. I never did get satisfying results. My particular case is the video generated by the Sony XDCAM EX. It records 1080p24. The video is MPEG2 with LPCM16 audio, but its all wrapped in mp4 wrapper. I need to simply convert the audio from LPCM16 to something that Windows Media Center can play. I will try out some of the commercial products you mentioned.
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