Encoding video files in different formats

Question

I am working on a site which would allow users to upload a video and my site would encode into 3 formats, wmv, iPod and zune. Are there any 3rd party tools/API's that can be used to do this? I am not sure how sites like http://channel9.msdn.com/ , http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ have got this.

Answer 1

Some of the more robust commercial offerings are:

Adobe Flash Media Encoding Server

Wowza Media Server Pro

Rhozet Carbon Coder

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These solutions are expensive but extremely high quality. You get what you pay for in my opinion.

Answer 2

Try libavcodec/ffmpeg.

Edit: Since you're using .NET, you can try FFmpeg.NET or FFLib.net, besides Media Handler Pro, which you already mentioned. However, I haven't personally used any of these bindings.

Answer 3

You could use an external service such as encoding.com although this will probably work out more expensive.

Expression encoder will also encode to those formats and it has a nice, easy to use SDK or command line interface if you prefer.