Tag Archives: Transcoding

Unicorn Media Supports WebM

On Wednesday, Google announced the much anticipated release of VP8 and the WebM Project, a community effort to develop a world-class media format for the open web.  VP8, the high-quality video codec, adapts to varying processing and bandwidth conditions and is available royalty-free. The team here at Unicorn Media is pleased to announce its support [...]

More Than Just Video

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been discussing what makes Unicorn Media’s Media-as-a-Service™ solution unique from all the rest of the online video platforms in the market.  While my discussions here are certainly not exhaustive, we’ve covered a lot of ground, and I wanted to take a minute to boil it down. I’ve mentioned before [...]

The Art of Transcoding

A lot of people might argue that the transcoding process isn’t the most electrifying of topics…but we aren’t those people. The fact is, transcoding isn’t a science.  It’s an art. So I sat down with Rikki Carls, Director of Software Architecture and the Picasso of Unicorn Media’s transcoding architecture to get the ins and outs [...]

New Release: Part 2

As you know, last week we announced a new release that brought some great new features to our platform services. This morning we released Part 2 of that build that enables a few very exciting features. Enterprise Advertising Support: We have released our first client-configurable enterprise advertising support. Customers have the ability to setup custom [...]