Buyers Guide to VOD Encoders
This video-on-demand buyers guide is meant to walk newbies through what an encoder is and how to choose one, rather than help a serious buyer choose a vendor or approach in any of the categories covered. If you re new to the market, you ll learn a bit about who s who and what s what; if you ve been in the streaming business for a while, you ll probably not get a lot out of this. As always, the group of companies mentioned is representative rather than exhaustive.
Let s start with some datapoints, courtesy of Bitmovin s 2020 Video Developer Report, which incorporates responses from 792 participants located in more than 80 countries.