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ActiveEncode is the basis for the interface between a Ruby (Rails) application and a provider of transcoding services such as Opencast Matterhorn, Zencoder, and Amazon Elastic Transcoder, and Kaltura.
More details: https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/active-encode
ActiveEncode is under development and has only been tested with Avalon's default configuration. Please send any issues and feedback to the avalon discussion email list.
Avalon's use of ActiveEncode
Avalon uses ActiveEncode for transcoding master files into access copies. It should be possible to use any encoding engine supported by ActiveEncode. At this time, however, only Matterhorn is supported at the level required by Avalon. This was planned as a stepping stone to support other encoding services like a local ffmpeg queue, local infrastructure, Zencoder, or Amazon elastic transcoder, or Kaltura. Avalon configures ActiveEncode to use matterhorn in an initializer.
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