To create Elastic Transcoder on AWS
Introduction:
Amazon Elastic Transcoder is media transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use and a cost-effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. In this tutorial we will see about to create Elastic Transcode on AWS.
Procedure:
First of all, you need to switch your AWS console and login your account
Now I will create two S3 bucket for the Elastic Transcoder. For that you need to S3 console
This the dashboard of the S3 bucket. Here I have to create two buckets and put some media file on input bucket
Click Input bucket and click upload and click add files select the file which you need to put
Now I will create transcoder so that click services and search elastic transcoder then click on it
On this dashboard I will create an pipeline so click create a new pipeline enter the pipeline name and select the input bucket
Select the output transport bucket and select the storage class
Then you need to configure the Thumbnail for that select the bucket and storage class the click create pipeline
Once the pipeline is created then you need to create a job for the Transcoder for that click create new job
Select the Pipeline and enter the output key prefix
Configure the Input details
Then configure the Output details
If you need any watermarks you can assign here then click create new job
Here the job has been created and status also completed. Then go the S3 console
Then click the output bucket there you can see the folder open the folder. Inside the folder you can see the media file has been converted and stored here
With this method to create Elastic Transcoder on AWS is comes to end.
FAQ
Currently, we allow a maximum of 100,000 jobs per pipeline. Once you exceed this limit, you will receive a 429 Rate Limit Exception.
You can retrieve files from Amazon S3 programmatically, using the AWS Management Console or a third party tool. You can also mark Amazon S3 objects as public and download them directly from Amazon S3.
Yes. Amazon Elastic Transcoder has a console that is accessed through the AWS Management Console. You can use our console to create pipelines, jobs, and presets as well as manage and view existing pipelines and jobs.
To use Amazon Elastic Transcoder you need to have at least one media file in an Amazon S3 bucket. The easiest way to use Amazon Elastic Transcoder is to try it through the console. Create a transcoding pipeline that connects the input Amazon S3 bucket to the output Amazon S3 bucket.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder is a highly scalable, easy to use and cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) video and audio files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.