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Originally Posted by Mutt
can you do a demo page of your video encoding results using Elevated-x? it's a big concern for anybody considering your CMS, the word has not been great about it, i'd like to see for myself.
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You're right. A few people have complained publicly on gfy about it. Even after we gave them settings for much better quality encodes, they admitted the quality was great and then complained that it took to long to encode. In all honesty it's not perfect. But it is extremely cheap and for most users it's a much faster and cheaper alternative to paying someone to handle encoding.
We don't post a page showing the results because there are way too many different factors that affect the result. The quality depends a lot on the quality of the source video, settings, etc.
The bottom line is that very high quality video encoding is possible but the trade off is slower speed of encoding. The better the quality, the longer it takes to encode.
On the plus side, we first announced that the CMS had encoding back in April of 2008. Server-side encoding is a feature that over 80% of our users have been enjoying for the last 2 years. The number of people who are happy with it outnumber those who are unhappy about 8 to 1. It's not something we hear a lot of complaints about as most people understand that the results this provides don't compare with the results of local encoding.
If you'd like to see the encoding results shoot me an email. We'll be happy to take one of your videos and do a test encode for you.
