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Source preparation best practices
Media Services On Demand: Encoder Best Practices
  • Overview
  • Source preparation best practices
    • Basic characteristics
    • Tracks
    • Interlaced content
    • Aspect ratio
  • Transcoding best practices
    • Keyframes, GOP size, and alignment
    • Frame rate
    • Shared attributes of renditions
    • Reference frames
    • B-frames
    • Encoding entropy algorithm
    • Rate control
    • Encoder buffer model
    • Audio encoding
  • Delivery best practices
    • General
    • MP4 container
    • Fragmented MP4 container
  • References
  • Encoding recommendations
    • Selecting bitrates
  • Notice

Source preparation best practices

The following recommendations are for producing the original source material, which you later transcode into multiple versions for delivery:

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  • Basic characteristics
  • Tracks
  • Interlaced content
  • Aspect ratio

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