NEVADA CITY, Calif.—Telestream has acquired privately held cloud media processing firm Encoding.com, the company announced today. Financial details were not disclosed.

“Over Encoding.com’s 13-year history, the company has generated significant traction powering video supply chains for leading streaming platforms, content distributors and web-based VOD platforms,” said Telestream CEO Dan Castles. 

“Being cloud-native from inception, the technology fits perfectly within the strategic direction at Telestream to offer our customers the ultimate flexibility to meet their most demanding workflow needs across cloud, on-prem or hybrid environments," he continued. "This acquisition, together with Telestream’s 25 year heritage of continuous media workflow innovation, cements our leadership position across the entire VOD cloud media processing ecosystem.”

Encoding.com is a U.S.-based company with development resources around the world. Its team will be integrated into Telestream. Company founder and CEO Gregg Heil and president Jeff Malkin will assume senior leadership positions at Telestream working on the company’s cloud initiatives.

“Telestream has an excellent track record when it comes to strategic acquisitions that truly benefit their customers and unite teams in a singular mission to bring the best possible solutions to market,” said Heil. “The combined engineering organizations will enable the acceleration of new features and services to support continued migration to the cloud by businesses seeking the advantages of parallel processing, elasticity and scale afforded by cloud infrastructure.”

Encoding.com customers will continue to be supported and can expect access to a broader set of capabilities and options in the future. Telestream customers will benefit from Encoding.com’s enhanced VOD workflows, including ultra-fast processing with Ludicrous mode and industry leading content protection, as the engineering teams integrate the technology stacks, Telestream said.

More information is available on the Telestream website.

LAS VEGAS—As more broadcasters and content providers eye a move to the cloud, Encoding.com has announced that it has added support for several new features that will assist with the process with its setup at the 2019 NAB Show.

One of the new supported features is for the encoding and decoding of Apple ProRes. Encdoing.com will support all versions of the ProRes codec from 442 up to 4444 XQ with the PQ and HLG HDR metadata by integrating it into the Encoding.com 64-bit Linux-based platform.

Another new supported technology includes Dolby Vision to assist with distributing videos using HDR technology. Via Encoding.com, users will be able to scale the distribution of content created in Dolby Vision.

Nielsen and Encoding.com have also began collaborating, with Encoding.com enabling Nielsen’s audio watermarking technology for audience measurement to work in a cloud-based computing architecture. Encoding.com has also received certification for the ability to convert existing Nielsen PCM audio watermarks already embedded in video content to ID3 tags for tracking on iOS devices.

There is also a new Encoding.com service that will debut at the NAB Show, the Ludicrous HLS video processing service that enables video content providers to process long-form HD and UHD videos into multi-bitrate HLS packages. The Ludicrous systems is designed to reduce video processing time by creating separate, small chunks of the source video and doing all transcoding and packaging in parallel, and then stitching the transcoded bits back together.

In addition, recently released an annual study on trends in video formats for broadcast, OTT, MVPD, web and mobile distribution that the company can share during the show. It’s key findings included that H.264 remained the top video codec; broadcast codecs increased in usage by Encoding.com customers; immediate processing workflows/repackaging are becoming more widely used; and new data on HDR formats.

Encoding.com will be at booth SU5224 throughout the NAB Show.

SAN FRANCISCO—Encoding.com has announced that it is pushing out a new Video QC as a Service offering in the cloud. This new service will enable content providers to offload their video quality control infrastructure and utilize the cloud-based API service from Encoding.com.

Content providers and distributors can now automate video QC job management and reporting pipelines through the site’s cloud service. Users have the option to run over 50 individual QC validations at the time of transcoding and packaging or use the Encoding.com Video QC service on assets that have already been processed.

All of the QC checks will be performed on the same compute node as transcoding and packaging. Available services include general validations like output size, duration, bitrate, captions and file size; video validations, including frame rates, codecs, aspect ratio and level; audio validations, such as bitrate, codec, channels and channel layout; manifest validations like version numbers, declarations, encryptions and discontinuity tags; and API web service for integration into CMS/MAM/DAM platforms for production and broadcast workflows.

Encoding.com reports that it will continue to add new validations and features to the QC service based on user feedback and requirements.

SAN FRANCISCO—Cloud-based video processing service Encoding.com is going live, introducing its Live Transcoding service that is powered by Harmonic technology. The company has also announced a new partnership with Zixi.

Via an API integration, Harmonic’s VOS Cloud media processing system has been added to the Encoding.com platform. This will enable video service providers to access live and on-demand capabilities in the cloud, including file and live transcoding workflows.

Zixi, a provider of broadcast-quality video over public and private IP networks, will also partner with Encoding.com to offer new services. Zixi’s hardware and platforms reportedly can boost Encoding.com’s Live Transcoding service, accelerating time to market for live video content.

SAN FRANCISCO – Cloud media processing service Encoding.com has introduced the Reserved Cloud, an unlimited cloud based encoding plan. The service is designed for high volume enterprise media workflows, providing broadcasters a method for handling existing media processing requirements with automatic failover for spikes in usage.

The systems unmetered cloud pricing model allows customers to pay a fixed monthly fee per Reserved Instance, granting them access to more than 30 professional encoding engines. The model is being offered starting at $1,000 a month. The service is also integrated with Amazon Web Services, allowing customers to have the option to pay a fixed fee per month for unlimited encoding on an AWS Reserved Instance.

Additionally, the Cloud Reserved Instance allows customers to enable automatic failover of their queue to the on-demand queue when reserved instances are busy. Customers can set the time the job will sit in the queue before failover is triggered. Users can also tune their encoding queue by configuring the number of concurrent jobs to send to a single 32 core reserved instance. Full real-time queue statistics and the ability to send priority jobs directly to the Encoding.com public on-demand cloud are also available.