Questions tagged [amazon-elastic-transcoder]

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is video transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use and a cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) video files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is video transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use and a cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) video files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.

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Warnings when validating AWS Elastic Transcoder HLS file using Apple's Media Stream Validator

I am currently transcoding my videos using AWS Elastic Transcoder. I create a job, and add outputs for the following quality presets: System Preset: HLS Audio - 64k System Preset: HLS 400k System Preset: HLS 1M System Preset: HLS 2M I then create…
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HTTP Live Streaming on Android from a Dynamically Generated Playlist

I am creating an Android app that streams videos using the Http Live Streaming protocol from a web application. Currently I am streaming the video playlist and segments, which were created by Amazon Elastic Transcoder, from an Amazon S3 bucket. This…
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder - Adding duration to output returning error

I'm using AWS SDK PHP. Using ->createJob( everything is fine, but when I add 'Composition' => array( 'TimeSpan' => array( 'StartTime' => '00:00:00.000', 'Duration' =>…
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How is the bandwidth attribute in the master m3u8 playlist determined?

I have read from many sources that BANDWIDTH is a required attribute, supposedly to be an upper bound of the actual bitrate of the video, while also allowing for "container…
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How can I get the ETag / MD5 hash of a transcoded file back from AWS Elastic Transcoder?

I'm using Amazon Elastic Transcoder in conjunction with Lambda and Step Functions to transcode MP3s from WAV files. I need to store the MD5 / S3 ETag header value of the transcoded MP3s in my database. At the moment I'm having to fetch these using…
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Need to check video resolution before transcoding video file

I am converting video files using an elastic transcoder. AWS Lambda function get video file from s3 bucket and convert it according to PresetId. But, I need to compare video file resolution with PresetId. If the video file resolution is higher than…
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How to build a Video Transcoder Pipeline with AWS Amplify in React?

I am building a web app with AWS Amplify and React. The functionality I am trying to accomplish is an authenticated user uploads a video. The S3 storage bucket has a lambda trigger that transcodes the video into multiple formats for diffrent…
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Elastic Transcoder Boto3 Lambda

I am tearing my hear out with the following error when trying to use Elastic Transcoder invoked from Lambda via a python function Boto3. The error in Cloudwatch Logs is: "An error occurred (ValidationException) when calling the CreateJob operation:…
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Optimize streaming for html5 video player

We are using video.js (an html5 media player) to play our videos. The video files are stored on AWS s3 and we are streaming them with the html5 native streaming for tags. Our goal is to get the highest quality video that the user's device, browser…
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AWS/Cognito/IAM Error with Unauth role

This message was originally posted on the AWS Developer Forums, but it seems like the AWS crowd is on SO, so I'm duplicating it here. Hi there, I'm an absolute AWS beginner so I'll try to be as clear as possible. I'm trying to use the JS API to…
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AWS Lambda elastic transcoder key encrypted HLS with playlist

I want to setup a automatic transcoding of a video to encrypted hls with a playlist. My lambda code is below, but when it is run, I get the following error { ValidationException: The MD5 hash of the base64-decoded value for ''Encryption:Key'' must…
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Aws ElasticTranscoder Ruby SDK multiple inputs

I'm trying to transcode multiple files into one mp4 output with Aws ElasticTranscoder but I'm getting always the same error: "missing required parameter params[:input]" and "unexpected value at params[:inputs]" and I dont know why. According the Aws…
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AWS - Lambda cannot access ElasticTranscoder

I have an infrastructure consisting of the following services in a VPC (except S3 and Transcoder obviously): EC2 (webserver) RDS (database) Lambda function with Node.js S3 Elastic Transcoder The scenario is the following: the user uploads a video…
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AWS Lambda job runs twice when using waiter.wait

I'm using a lambda function to run AWS elastic transcoder. The function works fine if I do the following: def lambda_handler(event, context): transcoder = boto3.client('elastictranscoder', REGION_NAME) pipeline_id = get_pipeline(transcoder,…
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Using AWS elastic transcoder, it possible to choose the thumbnail frame?

I'm using AWS transcoder to output a MP4 video & jpg poster thumbnail. Everything works fine but the thumbnail is always the first frame of the video which sometimes can be just blank. I'd like the thumbnail to be captured at say 2 secs into the…
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