Flow Coder - Media Transcoding

Transcode your content for archiving, previewing, customization and delivery.

FlowWorks media transcoding

A Flow Coder comes built-in with every Flow Core installation. It is a fully featured transcoding engine, capable of crunching the bits from editing systems or user generated content in any format, codec and data rate. The flow coder will process your media into any format you need for archiving or delivery. Flow Coder is a software transcoder operating on the Linux OS. Its plugin system feautes powerful plugins like data extraction, logo embedding with alpha channels, timecode embedding, rough cut (edit) a video, merge different videos into one single clip, manage up to 16 audio tracks for multi-language repurposing and much more. Flow Coder is already part of the Flow Center Core server software.

Quick format and container list:

  • Almost any image format, also raw images including EXIF, IPTC, XMP and subversions
  • Check List below for Video and Audio condecs and Container support
  • Resolutions and datarates from web/SD up to 4k UHD highest quality.

Full Specs:

Available formats

output video: output audio: output muxer:
H.265/HEVC PCM Elementary Streams
H.264/AVC MPEG-1 Audio MPEG-2 PS/TS
XAVC-Intra AAC MP4
MPEG-1/2 WMA 3GP
DV/DVCPRO 25/50/100 (HD) Raw F4V
VC-1 DV ASF
JPEG2000 DTS-HD including DTS Express DV
MPEG-4 Part 2   DIF
RAW/YUV   AVI
    MJ2
    MXF
    RAW

 

Video Codec Support  Audio Codec Support
H.265/HEVC AAC / HE-AAC
H.264/AVC DTS ¹
MPEG-1/2 DV Audio
MPEG-1/2x LPCM
DivX® / DivX®  Plus MP3 (in DivX containers only)
DivX HEVC MPEG-1 Audio
VC-1 PCM
DVCPRO HD ¹ RAW Audio
JPEG2000 ¹ WMA (Windows Media Audio)
H.264/AVC Broadcast (10-bit, Intra Class 50 & 100)¹   

 

Format & Container Support Format & Container Support (cont.)
ASF DivX
ATSC  DivX Plus
AVC Intra Class 100 DivX Plus Streaming®
AVC Intra Class 50   DivX HEVC
AVCHD DV
AVI DV 25
D10 DVB
DIF DVCPRO 25, 50 and HD 100
  F4V
  3GP
  HDV
  HTML5 (H.264)
  JPEG2000 DCI 2k and 4k¹
  MKV
  MPEG-1
  MPEG-2
  MPEG-4
  MXF (OP1a, Op1b, and OP-Atom)
  Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra
  Panasonic P2 DVCPRO
  ProRes (input only)
  QuickTime® ²
  Silverlight H.264 and VC-1
  Sony XAVC-Intra
  Sony XDCAM DV (DVCAM)
  Sony XDCAM (EX, HD and IMX)
  UltraViolet CFF
  VC-1
  WAV
  WMV (VC-1 compliant)
  XAVC-Intra ¹

¹ Broadcast Pack required
² Quicktime supported with user-installed open-source transcoder


You have a transcoder already in place?

For existing transcoder setups, the Flow Center Core software can make use of all the connected transcoding engines with an SDK or XML file configurations via watchfolders. Almost any existing transcoder engine is capable of being remotely instructed to transcode provided files via the Flow Center.

Systems that we have successfully integrated with include Adobe Media Encoders, Rhozet Harmonics Transcoders, digital rapids encoders, MainConcept transcoders and as a cloud-based solution the integration of the Amazon Elastic Cloud Transcoder.