OPEN THE THROTTLE ON VIDEO ENCODING
Never settle for inefficient. Zencoder gives you smart, reliable, and unlimited video encoding power without having to pay for, manage, and scale expensive hardware and software.
Zencoder Formats
File formats
- WebM (MKV)
- FLV
- WMV (wmv, wma) (ingest only)
- OGG (ogg, oga, ogv, ogx) (ingest only)
- MP4 (mp4, m4a, m4v, f4v, f4a, m4b, m4r, f4b, mov, 3gp)
- MJ2 (ingest only)
- MXF (ingest only)
- TS
Video Codecs
- HEVC/H.265
- H.264
- MPEG-4 P2 (decode only)
- Theora (decode only)
- VP9
- VP8
- VP6
- AV1
- MPEG-2 (decode only)
- VC1 (decode only)
Adaptive Streaming Output Formats
- HLS
- MSS
- MPEG-DASH
Audio Output Formats & Codecs
- MP3
- AAC (AAC-LC, HE-AAC, HE-AACv2)
- Vorbis
- WMA
- AC3 (Dolby Digital)
- EAC3 (Dolby Digital)
- Uncompressed audio (WAV, PCM) (decode only)
- Lossless Audio (FLAC, ALAC) (decode only)
Security
- AES 128 encryption and key rotation for HTTP Live Streaming
- PlayReady DRM for Microsoft Smooth Streaming
- ENC
- Watermarking:
- Advanced watermark placement & offsets
- Multiple watermarks per video
- Watermarks of GIF, JPEG, BMP, or PNG files
- Index or alpha transparency
Closed Captions - Input
- CEA-608 (separated track)
- A/53 (embedded)
- SCTE-128 (embedded)
Closed Captions - Output
- scc
- webvtt
- vtt
- dfxp
Supported Source Locations
- S3
- Cloud Files
- GCS
- FTP
- FTPS
- SFTP
- Aspera
- Azure
- HTTP address
Other Features
- Advanced rate control
- Flexible bit rate control: VBR, CBR, ABR, Constant Quality
- 1 and 2-pass encoding
- High Dynamic Range (HDR) with BT2020 color space and 10-bit depth
- High fidelity video scaler
- Normalize anamorphic pixels
- Advanced keyframe options
- High quality frame rate conversion with blending and duplication
FEEL THE SPEED WITH OUR API
In just hours, seamlessly integrate your application with our fast and scalable encoding platform. Our well-documented API, easy-to-use API request builder, integration libraries, and world-class integration support streamline your process and provide a solution that’s elegantly simple.
ENCODE AND SCALE IN SECONDS FLAT
Encode for the broadest range of formats almost instantly — even HD-quality video is encoded quicker than real time. That’s seriously fast. And with the power of our globally distributed cloud infrastructure, you can scale instantly without ever paying for idle server time. All plans have a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
CREATE HIGH-QUALITY VIDEO OUTPUTS
Zencoder supports the broadest range of input and output formats, including HEVC and VP9. You can clip and crop, extract and insert subtitles and closed captions, handle multichannel audio, package into HLS and MPEG-DASH, and apply AES-128 encryption and DRM. What’s more, Zencoder will even correct rotated portrait or landscape video from smartphones and fix audio/video sync issues, so you don’t need to be a video expert to get expert results.
SAVE MONEY, LOOK GREAT
Pay as you go. Zencoder uses an easy-to-understand content duration-based pricing model. Pricing for file-based transcoding is as low as 2¢/minute for no-commitment monthly plans and even lower for volume-based enterprise plans.
REDUCE COSTS WITH CONTEXT AWARE ENCODING
Improved compression and automatic adaptive bitrate ladder design using Brightcove’s award-winning Context Aware Encoding technology.
