The end of an Episode

[Ryan Holmes]

[Craig Seeman] “It’s Telestream Vantage or Telestream Cloud encoding service.”

I’m very curious to see if Telestream Cloud can work as a SaaS. Adobe Media Encoder works, in part, because it’s a part of the whole package. I wonder if there’s enough of a market for Telestream to support the R&D, maintenance, and support for Telestream Cloud when it flips solely to a SaaS offering with month-to-month payments – https://cloud.telestream.net/episode

Ryan Holmes
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[Jack McGee]

We use two Episode machines in a cluster. There is one watch folder and it outputs to one folder, no matter which machine picks up the job. We don’t have to wonder which machines has less jobs queued when we submit it.

I can run Adobe Media Encoder on multiple machines, but no way to cluster intelligently. If Media Encoder had that feature we would switch now.

[Craig Seeman]

Apple Compressor supports Clustering. Would there be a viable solution there?

[Jack McGee]

We are a Windows house. No Macs here.

[Craig Seeman]

Sorenson Squeeze Server possibly? Although I don’t have any personal experience with it.

I don’t doubt that one of the motives behind the push to Cloud encoding (including Telestream Cloud) is that you can leverage computer resources on the backend (cloud side) rather than potential local limitations.

[Jack McGee]

I don’t know, I am thinking just putting one instance of Media Encoder on network. With GPU processing, it might do more anyway than two Episode machines.