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With the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop comes a host of new features as well as several big fixes. A few of these updates are critical to improving the video playback experience. In this post we’ll provide an overviews of video playback improvements. This morning an interesting article was posted about Lollipop adoption rates. DespiteRead more

The W3C recently announced the ratification of the HTML5 web standard. Despite it’s widespread use and implementation, the standard had never been made official. That all changed on October 28, 2014 when the W3C published it’s official recommendation for HTML5. Up until the initial release of the HTML5 standard and well beyond that point theRead more

This week we are taking a closer look at Apple’s new flagship model, iPhone 6. Does the Apple magic hype machine live up to expectations when it comes to video playback? Apple’s implementation of http-live-streaming certainly has delivered, and their newest in a now long line of iPhone’s is no exception. The iPhone6 continues toRead more

This week we completed a deep dive on Samsung’s newest mobile device, the Samsung Galaxy S5. As Android has evolved, so has it’s support for video playback, and the Galaxy S5 is a shining example of that. In most situations, most importantly when playing HLS streams, the Galaxy S5 was consistent and seamless. In certainRead more

This week we are taking a close look at how the popular Samsung Galaxy S4 handles video play back. While video looks great on the Galaxy S4, we did find some inconsistencies with things like HTTP Live Streaming and Closed Captions. For all the details, watch the video below.

Encoding.com pioneered cloud encoding as a service over 6 years ago. In 2008 the transcoding options for high volume media companies were limited; there were transcoding hardware appliances, open source software, or enterprise encoding software. All of these options were expensive, difficult to scale, and required on going maintenance. Over the past few years manyRead more

With the holiday season in full swing, one thing is on everyone’s mind; vacation. Holiday dinners and trips to grandmother’s house are house on deck, so now is not a time to let your video encoding tasks bog you down. That’s why we’ve put a lot of effort into providing integration methods that will automateRead more

One of the first questions I had when I started working at Encoding.com was “What’s the difference between encoding and transcoding?”. I had always used them interchangeably, as does most of the rest of the world. I decided to do a quick internet search and was surprised that I did not find a clear answer.Read more

We are very excited to announce an important advancement in our platform. We are constantly working to update the world’s largest cloud media processing software. New features are added on a regular basis, but we also try to think beyond features – to how we can make our platform more flexible, more adaptable, and moreRead more