www.ankoder.com, an online video technology company, today launched beta trials of its “cloud based” video transcoding platform.

The service provides content publishers, CMS developers, web portals the necessary tools to quickly build, deploy and manage online video platforms.

Ankoder significantly lowers the barriers to entry for website owners with large user base looking to monetize the rapidly growing online video market.

Founder and company director Rex Chung said: “Developing a scalable encoding solution can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, never mind the untold ongoing changes in video codecs and features from new portable devices.”

“Ankoder takes the worries out of development and infrastructure setup. This frees up companies to do what they do best: focus on serving their customers.”

Free trials were opened today ahead of a formal launch of services scheduled in October 09.

With the Ankoder services, content owners and software providers can quickly integrate a powerful encoding platform to their existing services while they enjoy a flexible pay per use system with no license fee.

Ankoder is built on Amazon Web Services. It is designed to handle large and unexpected amount of videos and be able to process them in parallel. It can minimise the waiting time compared to a traditional job queuing system.

ABOUT ANKODER

Ankoder, which means “encoder”, is a cloud based video transcoding platform and product and service of Rorcraft Limited. Media companies, businesses and organizations use Ankoder to transcode videos into multiple formats suitable for web, mobile and other media devices. Founded in 2007, Ankoder is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. For more information, visit http://www.ankoder.com

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