On April 30, 2012 new rules went in to effect governing accessibility standards for Internet video.  These rules require the use of closed captioning for online distribution of video that was aired on TV (broadcast, cable, or otherwise).

Here at Zencoder we are continuously working on improving our service. This sometimes means making changes to our API. In our first 2 years as a public service, we haven’t had to make a backwards-incompatible change to our API, and we’re proud of this. But a few months ago, we announced Version 2 of our API, which made some changes that could affect customer integrations. We announced that we would be discontinuing the V1 API on June 1 and that we would require customers to move to V2 before that date.

On 5/10/2012 we’re taking part in a web event in conjunction with StreamingMedia.com.

The panelists will explore:

Congratulations to Zencoder co-founder and Video.js creator Steve Heffernan, who was named a 2012 Streaming Media All Star by Streaming Media Magazine. The winners represent an array of technology, services and content providers, all of whom strongly contribute to the rapidly evolving world of online video. Congrats to Steve and all of this year’s winners!

Read more at StreamingMedia.com

This month we are announcing four new features that will make your videos more accessible, better sounding and more secure.

Closed Captioning

The ING New York City Marathon is one of the world’s greatest road races, drawing more than 47,000 entrants and millions of spectators. For the 2010 event, one of the marathon’s sponsors, athletic products company ASICS, wanted to create a large interactive campaign to support the runners.

On March 8th, Zencoder, Aspera, Amazon Web Services and Netflix gathered in New York City to discuss cloud-based media workflow.  Zencoder is built on AWS, and in November we announced a partnership with Aspera to improve file transfer speeds to the cloud.

Online video impacts our day-to-day lives in many ways, from how we are entertained, to how we communicate and get the news. Perhaps the most exciting potential for positive impact is in education.

Today we’re thrilled to announce that we are providing encoding services to Khan Academy, for video that’s destined for its new iPad application. Khan has garnered lots of attention for using online video and technology to enable personalized learning across a mind-boggling array of topics.

Since we launched just two years ago, Zencoder has successfully encoded over 20 million audio and video outputs. (This only includes successful video and audio encodes.)

Technology is changing the way that we communicate and collaborate on a number of things, not the least of which is video creation and production.  Today we’re highlighting Zencoder customer Screenlight.

Here are some words from Screenlight founder Chris Potter on the technology behind their service.

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