Zencoder vs GStreamer: What are the differences?

Developers describe Zencoder as "Cloud-based video and audio encoding product suite". 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. On the other hand, GStreamer is detailed as "Open source multimedia framework". 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.

Zencoder and GStreamer can be categorized as "Media Transcoding" tools.

Some of the features offered by Zencoder are:

• Fastest Encoding Speeds- Zencoder consistently delivers the fastest encoding times in the cloud. Even HD Quality video is encoded faster than realtime.
• Easy API Integration- Integrate in an afternoon with Zencoder's well documented API, easy-to-use API Request Builder, integration libraries, and dedicated support.
• Any Video. Any Device.- Zencoder has an industry leading 99.9% encoding success rate and supports outputs for nearly every device on the market.

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

• Multiplatform
• Comprehensive Core Library
• Intelligent Plugin Architecture