Video Encoding
The way that digital files are encoded plays a big part in the quality of video, and the ability to get the crisp details across, while trying to keep file sizes down. In our video encoding services, Transloadit offers a variety of features to maximize file compatibility across platforms, as well as enrich video with effects, loops, watermarks, and more, to get the most out of your (user generated) video content.
Features
At Transloadit we call our features Robots because you can put them to work together to create encoding pipelines unique to your use case.
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/video/adaptive
Encodes videos into http live streaming (hls) and mpeg-dash supported formats and generates the necessary manifest and playlist files
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/video/concat
Concatenates several videos together
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/video/encode
Encodes, resizes, applies watermarks to videos and animated gifs
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/video/merge
Composes a new video by adding an audio track to existing still image(s) or video
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/video/thumbs
Extracts any number of images from videos for use as previews
Example use cases
See our features in action with some live demos and code samples right here on our website:
- Concatenate two video files
- Convert any video to animated GIF
- Encode video for Android, preserving the original quality
- Encode video for Android
- Encode video for iPhone and strip the sound
- Encode a video into WebM
- Extract 10 thumbnails and modify their size
- Generate a video from an image sequence
- Implement HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
- Implement MPEG-Dash using Transloadit
- Surround a video with a frame using a watermark
- Merge an audio and a video file
- Merge an audio file and an image to generate a video
- Apply a watermark to your videos
Related blog posts
Over the years we wrote the following posts about Video encoding on our blog:
- How we secured a spot in thoughtbot’s toolkit May 19, 2017
- Adding Support for MPEG-Dash October 11, 2016
- Adding Four New Robots to Our Family! September 24, 2015
- Upgrading Encoding Engines July 31, 2015
- Giving Online Education a Boost February 11, 2015
- Merging Image and Audio Files to Create Videos August 7, 2013
- Adding Support for Audio Encoding November 21, 2011
- We Have Added Support for WebM April 27, 2011
- Auto Rotation for Iphone Videos November 19, 2010