Last week at Adobe MAX during my session, I announced the soft launch of videoRx.com, my own personal project for the last year. It’s an online video encoding and (in the future) deployment solution—I’m teaming up with Influxis to enable near-seamless deployment of high quality multi bitrate video streams. Essentially, the site allows you to upload large high quality video source files (via an AIR app), and create targeted video output for a web or desktop project. I wrote a custom app (in C++) that runs on the server to analyze the video for complexity in order to build smart presets for video output. Right now, FLV and H.264 video output is supported, but I’ll eventually add support for WMV. I use more than one commercial encoder on the back end, and I’m using WebORB for PHP for most client-server interaction. The UI needs a lot of work, and you can probably tell right away that’s all Flex 3.x SDK. Anyone can sign up to use the service, and since it’s still in testing, anyone who signs up for an account automatically gets credits to download encoded video, complete with a SWFObject-enabled Flash SWF for playback.
I’d love any feedback on video quality that’s created by the system, so go ahead and sign up for an account at http://www.videoRx.com!
P.S. You can see parts of videoRx.com in action during my Adobe MAX 2009 session, “HD Experiences on the Web”.