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Elastic Transcoder

Elemental MediaConvert (MC) & Elastic Transcoder (ET)

  • File-based video transcoding services
  • MC ~= v2 of ET (almost)
  • Serverless - pay for resources used
  • Add jobs to pipelines (ET) or Queues (MC)
  • File loaded from S3, processed, stored on S3
  • MC supports EventBridge (CWEvents) for job signaling

media-converter

When and what to use ??

  • ET is legacy, default to MC
  • MC supports more codecs, and is designed for larger volume and paralled processing
  • MC supports reserved pricing ..
  • ET for WebM (VP8/VP9)
  • ET for animated GIF
  • ET for MP3, FLAC, Vorbis and WAV
  • Everything else .. MC