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  5. Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Kurento

Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Kurento

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Stacks89
Followers114
Votes0
Kurento
Kurento
Stacks40
Followers141
Votes5

Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Kurento: What are the differences?

What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder? Media transcoding in the cloud using Amazon EC2. Convert or transcode media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. Create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console.

What is Kurento? *A WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs *. It is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Media Server features include group communications, transcoding and more.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder and Kurento can be categorized as "Media Transcoding" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon Elastic Transcoder are:

  • Amazon Elastic Transcoder runs your transcoding jobs using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Built to work with content you store in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Automatically receive status of your transcoding jobs via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
  • Query the status of transcoding jobs.

On the other hand, Kurento provides the following key features:

  • WebRTC media server
  • group communications
  • broadcasting and routing of audiovisual flows

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Kurento
Kurento

Convert or transcode media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. Create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console.

It is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Media Server features include group communications, transcoding and more.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder runs your transcoding jobs using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Built to work with content you store in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3);Automatically receive status of your transcoding jobs via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS);Query the status of transcoding jobs.;Manage your transcoding jobs by stopping, starting or canceling them.;SDKs available for Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby, and the new AWS Command Line Interface;Supports the following output formats- Audio codecs: AAC, MP3 and Vorbis. Video codecs: H.264 and VP8. Container types: MPEG-4, MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) and WebM.
WebRTC media server ; group communications; broadcasting and routing of audiovisual flows
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What are some alternatives to Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Kurento?

Zencoder

Zencoder

Zencoder downloads the video and converts it to as many formats as you need. Every output is encoded concurrently, with virtually no waiting—whether you do one or one hundred. Zencoder then uploads the resulting videos to a server, CDN, an S3 bucket, or wherever you dictate in your API call.

GStreamer

GStreamer

It is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

Cloudflare Stream

Cloudflare Stream

Cloudflare Stream makes integrating high-quality streaming video into a web or mobile application easy. Using a single, integrated workflow through a robust API or drag and drop UI, application owners can focus on creating the best video experience.

Vmake

Vmake

Is a video editor designed for talking head videos, making it easier to generate creative video editing ideas.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based video transcoding service with broadcast-grade features. It allows you to easily create video-on-demand (VOD) content for broadcast and multiscreen delivery at scale.

AWS Elemental MediaLive

AWS Elemental MediaLive

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smart phones, and set-top boxes.

Panda

Panda

Panda is a cloud-based platform that provides video and audio encoding infrastructure. It features lightning fast encoding, and broad support for a huge number of video and audio codecs. You can upload to Panda either from your own web application using our REST API, or by utilizing our easy to use web interface.<br>

Bitmovin

Bitmovin

It provides adaptive streaming infrastructure for video publishers and integrators. Fastest cloud encoding and HTML5 Player, play Video Anywhere.

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