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  5. Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Uploadcare

Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Uploadcare

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Stacks89
Followers114
Votes0
Uploadcare
Uploadcare
Stacks85
Followers122
Votes27

Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs Uploadcare: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon Elastic Transcoder as "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. On the other hand, Uploadcare is detailed as "File uploads, media processing, and adaptive delivery for web and mobile". Uploadcare is a complete file handling platform for online business. Receive files from you users via File Uploader or File Upload API, implement image optimization and transformations with Image CDN API, and get HIPAA-compliant storage.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder belongs to "Media Transcoding" category of the tech stack, while Uploadcare can be primarily classified under "File Uploads".

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, Uploadcare provides the following key features:

  • Stores files in Uploadcare Storage or connects to your AWS S3 buckets
  • Delivers content in an instant across 5 continents with Uploadcare CDN
  • Takes minutes to integrate thanks to series of guides for most popular Web platforms, programming languages, and frameworks

Zumba, Percolate, and AmperVue are some of the popular companies that use Amazon Elastic Transcoder, whereas Uploadcare is used by StackShare, Uploadcare, and Extractly. Amazon Elastic Transcoder has a broader approval, being mentioned in 28 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to Uploadcare, which is listed in 13 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Uploadcare
Uploadcare

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.

Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.

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.
Stores files in Uploadcare Storage or connects to your AWS S3 buckets; Delivers content in an instant across 5 continents with Uploadcare CDN; Takes minutes to integrate thanks to series of guides for most popular Web platforms, programming languages, and frameworks; Well-documented and provides live chat or email support; Provides on-the-fly image processing and tools for editing images in desktop and mobile browsers; Lets you resize, crop, rotate, enhance, extract colors, detect faces, and whatnot; Provides REST API to manage your cloud storage; Lets you upload files from multiple sources using File Uploader, raw API, libraries or plugins; Provides HIPAA-compliance and PHI protection;
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Pros
  • 10
    Great team
  • 6
    Simple image upload with widget
  • 5
    Awesome support
  • 5
    Easy to integrate into any website
  • 1
    <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
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    Upload widget is large (114KB)
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    no cons
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What are some alternatives to Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Uploadcare?

Transloadit

Transloadit

Transloadit handles file uploading & file processing for your websites and mobile apps. We can process video, audio, images and documents.

Bytescale

Bytescale

Bytescale is the best way to serve images, videos, and audio for web apps. Includes: Fast CDN, Storage, and Media Processing APIs.

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.

Uppy

Uppy

Uppy is a sleek modular file uploader for web browsers. Add it to your app with one line of code, or build a custom version with just the plugins you need via Webpack/Browserify. 100% open source, backed by a company (Transloadit).

Kurento

Kurento

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.

Filestack

Filestack

Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet.

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.

CarrierWave

CarrierWave

This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails.

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.

Bacon AI

Bacon AI

Create studio-quality images, videos, and UGC - in minutes

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