Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com

Rackspace Cloud Files and Rackspace Cloud Server Supports API and Encoding.com allows to Encode, Transcode Video, Images, Videos and Sounds via flexible XML API. Users of Encoding.com includes AOL, ESPN and more – if you are thinking of quality or their capacity to handle number of requests, definitely they are capable to handle. This article on Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com is not a true step by step guide but a guide that is helpful enough to do the work easily.

Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com

The background behind this article on Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com is user based feedback. One developer wanted a solution for some API based features for streaming media. In fact we do have quite good number of guide articles, theoretical articles on Streaming Media, you might look at them (now or later after reading this guide once) as basically they might directly or indirectly help you to carry out the work yourself :

• Cloud Files Hosted Music Player of Your Own : The whole setup is on Rackspace Cloud Files, so there is actually nothing on non CDN server – a truly scalable, globally distributed system. You can use this setup to deploy and test this guide on Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com.
• Streaming Media, CDN and Cloud Computing : A basic Primer on these technologies.
• Cloud Streaming Technology For Video And Music : Theoretical concept of these streaming technologies.
• Embedding Streaming Video From Rackspace Cloud Files in WordPress without Plugin : The title says what is thing is about.
• HTML5 Mobile Video Adaptive Streaming on Cloud With Kaltura Player : A paid separate solution.

The reason to give importance to this guide on Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com is – Rackspace Cloud Files practically costs very very less, even you are not an existing user, you can actually afford it. Base price is $1 per month or something like that, it was $2 per month before they were using OpenStack. And Encoding.com has a free usage tier, even a kind of demo even if you do not want to signup for the free account.

Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com : What we want to emphasize

What we want to emphasize is, try the quick test :

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The usage for Rackspace Cloud Files is :

The red things are changing with your real data. They have all the API documentation as usually :

We will go through the API with working example, as we said at the beginning of this Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Transcoding Platform by Encoding.com. Many can actually follow the way with the resources we have provided. In the same way, you can actually work with image files, sound files etc too.