Director's commentary — engineering insights, product updates, and video transcoding deep dives.
Transcodely runs a hosted MCP server at mcp.transcodely.com/mcp. Point Claude at it, authorize in the browser, and it can submit transcoding jobs, ingest and host videos, generate captions, and read back status, playback links, and spend — seven tools, no key to paste, no gateway to run.
A walkthrough for wiring Transcodely's MCP server into Claude Code: one registration command, a browser authorize, and four workflows the shipped tools actually support — host, transcode, caption, audit spend — plus the limits worth knowing before you hand an agent a billable API.
Every video can now ship with accurate, automatically generated captions — one flag on hosted uploads, one line on API jobs, €0.05 per source minute. Transcribed on our own workers, delivered inside your HLS/DASH manifest, and never billed for silence.
Cloudflare R2 is now a first-class storage origin in Transcodely. Point a transcoding job at an R2 bucket with just your account ID — then deliver the output to viewers with zero egress fees.
Upload a video, get back an HLS stream, an embeddable player, and a CDN URL. Transcodely now ships an end-to-end hosting layer on top of our transcoding API — priced per GB, not per seat.
A practical comparison of the four major video codecs — compression efficiency, encoding speed, device support, licensing costs, and when to use each.
After a decade of fighting overpriced transcoding services, misleading pricing, and manual VMAF calculations, I built the encoding API I always wanted.
An honest comparison of video encoding costs across AWS MediaConvert, Mux, Coconut, Bitmovin, Google Cloud, and Transcodely — with real numbers.
VMAF is the perceptual quality metric Netflix uses to measure video quality. Here's how it works, what scores mean, and why your encoding pipeline needs it.
Per-title encoding analyzes each video's complexity to generate optimal bitrate ladders — saving 20-50% on bandwidth without sacrificing quality.
A step-by-step guide to building an HLS adaptive streaming pipeline — from encoding multi-bitrate variants to CDN delivery.
AV1 now powers 30% of Netflix and 75% of YouTube. Here's the current state of adoption, hardware support, and what it means for your video pipeline.
Encoding is only 10-20% of total video cost. Here are 6 practical strategies to cut your overall video bill by up to 60%.
CMAF lets you encode video once and serve both HLS and DASH from the same segments — cutting storage costs and encoding time in half.
