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Upload and Transcoding

📄️ Does VIDIZMO automatically encode video multiple formats

Yes. As soon as new files are uploaded, VIDIZMO automatically encodes and converts it into multiple formats to support playback on multiple devices, browsers, and varying user bandwidths, ensuring playback on all devices and in all types of bandwidth conditions. All uploaded videos are encoded into multiple pre-configured formats and resolutions to allow playback on various devices, browsers, and bandwidth conditions. A typical 1080p uploaded video will be encoded into 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p in MPEG4, HLS, WebM, and Microsoft Smooth Streaming formats to ensure playback on all devices and browsers in all bandwidth conditions. Following is a more detailed chart of video formats accepted by various VIDIZMO products: VIDIZMO Technical Specifications and Supported File Types

📄️ How your solution handle video encoding

All uploaded videos are converted into 5 or more different bitrates and four different formats with a total of up to 20 different renditions. Typically, a 1080p uploaded video will be encoded into 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p in MPEG4, and HLS formats to ensure playback on all devices, browsers in all bandwidth conditions. Users can also create and use encoding profiles. Encoding can be performed either in the cloud, on-premises software or using hardware encoders.

📄️ What is encoding

Encoding is a process that converts uploaded video into various formats for a video to be playable on all devices and browsers. Typically, an uploaded video is converted into 4 different bitrates i.e. 240p, 480p, 720p, 1080p and in several different formats including Microsoft Smooth Streaming, HLS, MPEG4 and WebM. As a general rule, depending on uploaded video quality, 1 GB of uploaded video may consume in 3-5 GB of encoding, and also consume the same amount of storage to keep these files. Upon playback, VIDIZMO player running on a device negotiates with the cloud to playback appropriate video on each device based on available bandwidth and device type.