Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Panda: 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 Panda? Dedicated video encoding in the cloud. 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.
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder and Panda belong to "Media Transcoding" category of the tech stack.

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, Panda provides the following key features:

• Unlimited encoding- When we say unlimited we mean unlimited. With your own dedicated resources, you can upload as much media as you like with no per-minute charge.
• Deliver everywhere- Encode your videos to be viewable in any browser, with any player, on any device.
• High definition- From the cellphone to the big screen, your video will always look gorgeous with 1080p HD video.