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Documentation

Zencoder provides a simple API to fast, scalable, quality video encoding. These docs cover our API, encoding settings, problems you might see, pricing, and more. If you have questions that aren’t answered here, chat with us, file a support request, or email us.

Getting Started

  • What does Zencoder do?
  • Who is Zencoder for?
  • How do I upload a video to be encoded?
  • What is an encoding job?
  • Can’t I just use ffmpeg?

Integration

  • Where are the API docs?
  • Do you have an integration library for my programming language?
  • Where do I find my API key?
  • What is integration mode?

Codecs and Formats

  • What input formats and codecs do you accept?
  • What output codecs do you support?
  • What licensing issues should I worry about?

Encoding

  • What settings should I use?
  • How do I get the best quality?
  • Can Zencoder encode audio only files?
  • Why is my output only 5 seconds long?

Transfer

  • What transfer protocols and methods do you support? HTTP? FTP?
  • Where do the finished files go?

Problems

  • What does this error mean?
  • My output looks wrong. Why?
  • Why is my job waiting?

Pricing

  • How much does it cost?
  • Why charge by the minute?
  • What are the Terms of Service?

Help

  • Documentation
  • Support Request
  • Forums
  • Support Chat

Encoding

  • Codecs and Formats
  • Settings
  • Download/Upload

The API

  • API Documentation
  • Libraries

Trouble

  • I got an error
  • My output looks wrong
  • Things are slow

Playback

  • HTML 5 video player

Pricing & Billing

  • Pricing

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