amazon-elastic-transcoder

Looking into AWS elastic transcoder, and have a few questions: Is there significant value using the transcoder in the first place, for my use case? I'm making an ios app that allows users to select a video. When they do this I'm uploading it to an S3 bucket. As I understand it, I should use elastic transcoder to then transcode those videos and drop them in a second bucket in hls format. Does this make sense, or would I be just as well off eliminating the transcoding step since I'm only creating content on ios devices and then streaming it on ios devices? Assuming there is some value to doing

We are trying to transcode mp4 videos into HLS using AWS transcoder. We see that there are only few presets available ( highest being 2M ). The max resolution this gives us is 360p on JWPlayer . If we want higher resolution ( 480p | 720p | 1080p ), we understand that we need to transcode videos at higher bit rate. For that we will need to create new presets. Could someone help us with different transcoder settings to create these presets? We don't understand most of the fields presented in the presets. Thanks I believe the fasted way to remedy this issue would be to take an existing high

I asked two additional questions before this on Stack Overflow, but got very little help and I thought I would ask an open question for posterity. I have spent time parsing the AWS-SDK API docs and found very little direct answers to my needs. I have also posted on the AWS forums and haven't been able to get a good response there. A simple, comprehensive, step-by-step solution seems impossible to find. What I have completed: Uploading with CarrierWave direct to s3. I followed Railscast #383 and adapted it to my needs. I am able to "retrieve" my files from my s3 bucket. Details about what I've